Hi foxyloxley the cd burner is an older model that came with the computer a pentium 3 128 ram 550 mhz, the burner is a IDE-CD R/RW 4x4x24 Multiread using roxio 6 software it has been used a fair amount and I am the only one who uses it. It started a while back taking 3 tries to burn and now I can not do my back up burning for my programs as for soho I am sorry but I have no idea what that is, no network only home business use . I tried uninstalling the burner and software and reinstalling but no go. When doing up the files for burning every thing seems fine it shows the cd to be burnt to and the little orange light comes on when burning but when I check the cd it shows that it is blank. I also thought it might be the new Roxio software but uninstalling that and reinstalling the software that came with the burner did not work. Plus I can still put in software cds and it reads it no problem.