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bcoleman

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12. July 2004 @ 08:32

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Hi everyone,
this may be annoying to a lot of you out there but I need some help on this one. As many have asked about this problem and all seem to have the same answer or thereabouts but doesn't fix mine. This is my story..
P4 2.4Ghz
1gig memory
80gig HDD
pioneer DVR106d 4x

I have used this drive for almost a year now and I am suffering from power cal.etc..This has just started to happen. I am quite sure that my media is OK as I have been using it for the best part of a year, so that rules that out. I have updated my firmware for my pioneer burner. I have updated Nero. I have uninstalled the drive - reinstalled. My DMA settings are OK. I have installed an ASPI layer. I have put it in another machine and the same problem has occurred. Now last week I noticed that I could only burn DVD's at2x speed now not at all at any speed. I use decryptor and then dvd2one and then nero, this problem only affects DVD, CD burns OK, I am at a loss to what next. Any help would be appreciated.

Many thanks

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Diaboli

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12. July 2004 @ 09:14

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One thing you could try, is to install the drive on some other PC, and try burning a DVD. If the same problem still exists, then I'm afraid your DVD-writer is dying.

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bcoleman

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12. July 2004 @ 11:54

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I have tried this out in another PC and cleaned the drive using a DVD/CD cleaning disk, but nothing appears to fix the error, I have exhausted all possibilities except the DVD hardware and it is looking most likey to be that but it still burns CD.

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bcoleman

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13. July 2004 @ 11:03

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OK.. I have fixed my problem, after all those suggestions that I read and all the hard work I put into fixing my own power cal...the answer was as has been suggested so many times, the media that I was using. the only thing I can say in my defence is that it is the same media I have been using since day one and they have served me well for almost a year now. I would suspect that it was a bad batch or something as they never gave me any problems before. but I thought I would try out the datawrite brand and now My dvd copying DVD oas it should do. the end

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Nephilim

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13. July 2004 @ 12:01

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Take a look the media code from the media you've been using. Since many brands buy from whomever is cheapest at the moment their stuff can vary from acceptable to horrid.

http://dvd.identifier.cdfreaks.com/

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