Last year I removed theHP 9150i CD writer because the two young sons
were burning audio CDs and leaving them all over the house. I replaced
it with the original CD read only DVD unit that the computer came with.

Now the boys want it back because they are making a CD for a school
project and they want to burn one. So I dug it out of it's box and
installed it. Only it does not work!

Whenever I put any CD at all in the machine, it starts it's spin up and
the computer screen first goes black, then it goes blue with an 08 error
message at...........

The only way I can get the computer going again is by re booting. If I
do a control-alt-delete there are a couple of items (cannot remember
which) that are not responding,

If I replace the HP unit with the original read only unit I can read any
cd.

HP has not helped me, except that they charged their $35 fee. Now they
are not even sure if they will repair it. The "nice lady" on their help
line said the repair would cost about what I paid for it. My reply was
"Oh, so you are going to charge me for another one and send it instead
of repairing the one I have". She could not even give me any information
as to where to send it for repair.

Anyone know if this is repairable for less than the cost of a new unit?
I paid $115 US for it in '01 and I don't think it has burned more than
25 CDs. It has been sitting in it's shipping/display box for nearly 1
year.

Ken