If you are one of the people who are trying to Update the Firmware for the Philips PCRW804 CDRW with their Flashtool and are having a problem with the ASPI and it is giving you a message saying that you have already installed ASPI or you have the Wrong version of ASPI I have got a little File that should cure it and if you post a request in this thread I will e-mail it to you it is only 249k.It is not the Forceaspi 1.7. The patch I have got is a lot easier to use and it Does work on any version of Windows including XP And after you have applied the patch you can upgrade your ASPI with Adaptech's own Aspi anytime if you need to.!!! It has already helped loads of other Philips users and it may help you look at :-
http://www.cdrinfo.com/forum/topic.asp?whichpage=1&ARCHIVEVIEW=&TOPIC_ID=5041
And make your own mind up and it does work for other brands of CD Writers with the same problem !!!
But as I say please post a request in this thread.
All you have to do is unzip it into a folder on your hard-drive and follow the Instructions in a txt file in the folder and it should hopefully sort your ASPI problems out!!!

My Mate MP3Mogul Has now put it online so you can download it just go to :-
http://hometown.aol.com/mp3mogul/aspi.zip
To Download the ASPI FIX !!!

Laffin Assassin

CD-ROM ---- Consumer Device, Rendered Obsolete in Months !!!
The Definition of an Upgrade: Take old bugs out, put new ones in !!!
What do people mean when they say the computer went down on them ???

Well I'm having problems installing a Phillips CD-RW at a friend house at the moment (peculiar software installation/lock-ups/won't work basically) ... and I'm wondering if this .zip of yours might help! Could you please send it to me at kevin.pope@talk21.com.

Thanks friend! ... I'll let you know what happens!

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Hi Kevin
YOU HAVE E-MAIL !!!
I have sent you the file let me know how you go on !!

Laffin Assassin

CD-ROM ---- Consumer Device, Rendered Obsolete in Months !!!
The Definition of an Upgrade: Take old bugs out, put new ones in !!!
What do people mean when they say the computer went down on them ???

Edited by - Laffin Assassin on 07/25/2002 06:07:18

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Laffin Assassin:
please send a copy of the 249Kb zip file to my address, as well.
TIA, tikimonster2

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Hi tikimonster2
I have sent you the ASPI Fix file. It is only 249k.
Just unzip it into a folder and follow the instructions and that should cure your problems.
I hope this helps !!!

Laffin Assassin

CD-ROM ---- Consumer Device, Rendered Obsolete in Months !!!
The Definition of an Upgrade: Take old bugs out, put new ones in !!!
What do people mean when they say the computer went down on them ???

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Laffin Assassin,

I'm so glad I found your post. I have been fightin' this aspi problem for weeks! Would you please send me your fix?

Thanks,
stevebro2000@earthlink.net

Rocktheboat

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Hi Rocktheboat
No Problem Mate I have sent you the ASPI Fix file. It is only 249k.
Just unzip it into a folder and follow the instructions and that should cure your problems.
I hope this helps !!!

Laffin Assassin

Always remember to Pillage BEFORE you Burn

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Aspi fix worked great! Thanks!

Rocktheboat

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Hi Rocktheboat
No problem Mate only to pleased to Help !!!

Laffin Assassin

Always remember to Pillage BEFORE you Burn

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Hi Laffin Assassin

Could you please send me a copy of your ASPI patch, I have the same flashtool error

Thanks

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Hi jimspade
No Problem Mate I have sent you the ASPI Fix file. It is only 249k.
Just unzip it into a folder and follow the instructions and that should cure your problems.
I hope this helps !!!

Laffin Assassin

It's Nice to be Important!!!
But it's more Important to be NICE!!!

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Please send copy of ASPI fix.
Thanks,
champx70@metacrawler.com

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Hi Albaterra
No Problem Mate I have sent you the ASPI Fix file. It is only 249k.
Just unzip it into a folder and follow the instructions and that should cure your problems.
I hope this helps !!!

Laffin Assassin

It's Nice to be Important!!!
But it's more Important to be NICE!!!

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i'm kind of new at this i guess but what is "aspi"

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i'm kind of new at this i guess but what is "aspi"

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Hi m8,

Got you fix file, but still no joy.

When I run the ASPI check it says everything is OK - ASPI 4.60 (1021).
But when I run the Philips flashtool (v3.7.0.0), I get as far as starting the flash and it returns the error "Fatal Error - ASPI send error".

I have also tried running flashtool with ASPI layer 4.71 - but same problem.

I'm running the following CD-RW software :

Nero 5.5
CloneCD 4.0.0.0
VCDeasy 1.1.1

Is there an atlernative flash tool I could try, or can you advise further ?

Thanks in advance,

Albaterra.

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