please help, my burner will only burn in pio mode, if I put it into udma it will hang the machine

burner - plextor 48x; machine xp2400 with 256mb pc2100 ram (had 512 but had to sell half, long story, but didnt work with 512 either)
had a LG 32x before and it did the same thing

please help me out
Thank You
Dan