I had an NEC 3500 DVD burner that I purchased a year ago. Flashed the firmware and had been burning backups flawlessly using DVD Decrypter and DVD Shrink (Taiyo Yuden +R 8X verified by DVD Identifier). In the last 3 months I started having problems burning the ISO to disc with DVDD. At first I thought it might be too high write speed (I was burning at MAX) so, I notched it down to 8X, then 6X, then 4X. DVDD would either give me an error (power on / off ).
Sometimes when I reboot my machine and try to burn an ISO it will work like it used to, but if I try to burn a different ISO right after, it will burn a coaster. Guess I could reboot every time I want to burn a backup.
Purchased a brand new NEC3550 last week thinking that maybe my burner was toast. Installed the new drive and was able to burn a backup or two then it was acting like the old burner. Took the old burner (NEC3500A) and installed into a similar machine at work and it works just fine.
I have regularly run virus definition updates as well as virus scans (daily) on the machine. Have also run numerous spyware scans / fixes (Spybot 1.4, Ad-Aware, WebRoot Spy Sweeper, Microsoft's Spyware Beta, Trend Micro's Housecall). Except for a few tracking cookies my system is supposedly clean.
Also, used Microsofts Disk Defragmenter, then upgraded to Disk Keeper and regularly defrag all drives.
I posted in the DVD+R for advanced users a few weeks ago thinking it might be a DVD Decrypter issue. Now I'm thinking it might be a hardware issue. here is the link to my previous post, which might have additional details I forgot to mention here. http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/296748
Has anyone had problems with power cables or IDE ribbons creating intermittant problems like I've described?
Any help at all is greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
System:
P4 2.26G
768MB Ram
XP SP2
ATI AIW 128MB
Boot Disk WD 40GB
2nd HD WD 120GB
3rd HD Maxtor 250GB
DVD burner NEC 3550
CDR NEC 9100
