When I trying burning a DVD/CD using Ultra DMA Mode 4, my system shuts off completely without warning. This happens within the first 10 seconds of burning. But when I change the UDMA to mode 3 in the BIOS, it burns fine. This only happens while burning (it reads/plays discs fine using mode 4). My motherboard supports UDMA mode 4 and so does my burner, so I'd like to be able to use it; I just built this system 3 weeks ago. At first I though it was the drive, but I tried a Pioneer DVR111D, and the same thing happens. Nothing is overclocked. I am using Nero 7.2.3.2b with brand name media. I have a Lite-On 165H6S DVD Burner with latest firmware. I am also using the latest BIOS & chipset drivers. Does anyone have any ideas? The rest of my system specs are as follows:
MSI K9N Platinum Nforce 570 AM2 (Motherboard)
2.0 GB Corsair XMS2 DDR2 800
AMD Athlon X2 3800+ (Socket AM2)
Thermaltake 500W Power Supply
Sapphire X1600 Pro ATI Videocard
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Music
Western Digital 250 GB SATA Hard Drive
Western Digital 80 GB PATA Hard Drive
wow, im using ultra dma 5 and my system isnt as nice as yours. try using an older version of Nero. i use 7.0.1.4b. the newer versions semm to be unstable and buggy. save ur key and go here to get it... http://www.filehippo.com/download_nero_7_premium/
gamename & pazzini, I don't think any burners out there support UDMA Mode 5, I think you are talking about your hard drive using UDMA mode 5. My IDE hard drive is using UDMA 5 and works fine. It happens with any burning application I try to use, not just Nero so I don't think Nero is the problem.
Headborg, yes it just shuts off completely dead. How could a DMA mode cause overheating especially when my IDE hard disk uses UDMA mode 5 just fine? I leave my PC on for days and it doesn't shut down. I am using air cooling. AMD stock cooler with 2 120mm Thermaltake fans at full speed.
I'm not sure..Why..but I've had my laptop overheat a couple times while Encoding, Burning..it's a very CPU demanding operation...and can build up bursts of heat very quickly causing shut down automatically...with almost any other BSD(blue screen of Death)there is a error warning associated with those kinds of crashes...the only ones i can thank of which don't give you Error Message Warnings...are
overheat and power suppy failure/surge.
check ur temp using SpeedFan while using Nero to see if it starts to overheat, if it doesn't then u can rule out overheating as the problem, worth a try, also like Headborg said check ur power supply too.
Thanks a millionnnnnnnnn
I had a same problem with my MSI K9N Ultra, and I thought it was related to PSU (and I was desperate). Now I have switched to UDMA 3 and now it works perfectly (I can live with UDMA 3 it is good enough for DVD)
This seems to be a general problem with this mobo or a whole chipset.
Glad I could help, jogurt. Thanks for the feedback, hopefully this can be fixed with a future Bios or chipset update. You would think that MSI would have tested burning in UDMA 4, since it is the default mode in the BIOS settings. No, instead they want to drive us crazy. Who knows how many people are having the same problem and cannot burn anything because of this.
