I have a Pioneer 108 DVD burner that i am having problems with and a Matsumi CD burner now the problem is the CD burner burns CDR's fine and does not freeze my PC but when i burn DVD's using the same software (Nero) it brings the PC to a hault i.e. Freeze's everything up any ideas burner is not even a year old ?


Pongo555

 

Sounds like a nero related problem then doesnt it ?

Have you got over 1 gig of free space on the hard drive ?
Have you tried burning the disc at a non max speed ?
Can you change the cache size to a larger value in the options ?

Try that lot , and let me kno ..

 

The only thing i can find about cache is under Misc before burning and that says cache files smaller than 64kb ?


Pongo555

 

File --> Preferences

Cache. Check your drive speed is ok
Defragment your drive if you get a low rating

UltraBuffer.
Should be on auto.
If it is , change it Manual. Set it to 80mb

Try that.

Do other programs such as alcohol 120% work ?

 

What release of Nero <spit> are you using?

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- locking up system
- creating silent gaps between DVD chapters!
- recognising blank discs as full

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Ok i installed alcohol 120% and everything was fone for about 3 disc's then same again my PC just froze and would not do anything whithout reseting it could it be the burner or should i try installing latest firmware for the burner as the website warns once you have updated the firmware you cannot go back to a previous one any ideas please this is driving me mental all worked fine until i did a full re-install of windows ?



Pongo555

 

Hmm.

I dare say it is not your burner.

Is the DVD writer on a different channel to the hard disc ?
I cant understand why this isnt working.

Try in Alcohol 120% ripping the image to the hard drive. Reboot your machine , and then mount the image using the virtual device.
Test that works ok

Then if thats ok , try burning the image.
Repeat.

If it fails , i suspect windows / other driver is killing something.

 

So you think the drive is ok its a software problem ,well me really stuck now the only thing i have installed that i did not beofre is my Cable USB modem because i cannot get my Ethernet to re-install thats it any more ideas this really is getting the better of me HELP !!!



Pongo555

 

bttt HELP !!!!!!



Pongo555