It's a new pc it is only a year old, it copys from cd to cd perfectly it's just the transcoding it doesn't seem to do properly. Please note that the sleeve that was on slave was a factory fault. The power is perfectly ok. There is only one set of codecs on at the moment which came with power2go express. It's also most definatly not cutting out when the dvd powers up because of what i just said ^^^.