I have had a 12102B for some time now and it worked perfectly, no coasters and it copied everything that I threw at it using Nero CDRWin CloneCD. All in All I was delighted.

Then I tried Windows XP. When I finally sorted out ASPI layers etc I found that the 12102B worked fine for a day or so then would not recognise any CDs that were inserted. I had the drive on its own on IDE1, and the only way that I could get XP to see it again was to swap connectors on IDE1 and it worked fine. After a while I was fed up of swapping the lead every few days so I reformatted C: and reinstalled ME, it now does the same on ME, ie works fine until the PC is switched off for a while then it doesn't.

Any ideas?

CPU PIII 500
Mobo Gigabyte BX2000
VGA ATI 128 Rage Pro AIW
HDD 20GB IBM
CDRW Liteon 12102B
CD Artec 6x DVD
Sound Creative 128