I’m hoping that someone here can help! I am having problems with my dvd burner…
Last February, I bought a Digital Research dual format 8x burner. It worked fine for several months, and I burned 100s of dvds with no problem using Nero. At some point over the summer, halfway through a spindle of blanks, the burner quit burning at fast speeds; now, it would REPORT that it was burning at 4x or 8x (depending on what kind of blanks I was using), but it was actually burning at a much slower speed (it would routinely take between 50-70 minutes to burn a dvd-r). During this time, it continued to burn cd-r’s at a fast speed. Then about a month ago, it started taking an hour to burn a cd-r. I spoke to Digital Research’s online tech support, but they were really of no help – they suggested I upgrade to Nero 6.6 and use only TDK, Ritek and a few other brands of blanks. So I upgraded Nero, and I was already using TDK blanks, and there was no improvement.
A week ago, my roommate gave me an early Xmas present – an I/O Magic double format dual layer 16x internal dvd burner. I installed it, and burned a dvd at 8x speed and it seemed to work (Nero projected it would take 6-1/2 minutes, it actually took a little over 7 minutes, but hey, I wasn’t really concerned about that minor discrepancy). I thought my troubles were over.
The next day I tried to burn another dvd. Once again, Nero reported that it was burning at 8x, but I immediately noticed that based on the completion rate (2 % after 1 minute, ~ 20% after 10 minutes) that the new burner was burning as slow as the other one had been. Furthermore, after burning 38% of the disc, it just stopped burning. Task manager indicated that the program was Not Responding. I uninstalled Nero, and reinstalled it from the disc that came bundled with the new burner, and tried a new burn. Same result.
I tried burning some cd-r’s, and had no problem – although Nero reported it was burning them at 48x, it clearly wasn’t going that fast, but I think that’s because the Fuji cdr blanks I have are 8x blanks, and it burns them at about that speed (6-7 minutes per cdr). After burning several cd-r blanks, I tried again to burn a dvd, with the same results as before (slow burning, despite what Nero was reporting, and then hanging up at 38% completion). (Thanks God the cost of DVD blanks has come so much these days!).
This morning I downloaded CDBurner XP Pro 3, thinking perhaps it was the Nero software. And the same thing happened – the s/w reported that it was burning at 8x, though it clearly wasn’t, and at 39% it stopped burning altogether and reported the following error:
Writing Error (3).
Error occurred writing data to disc.
A NT disc I/O operation failed (1054).
Error Sense Data: SENSE KEY: FF ASC = 0 ASCQ: 79
So, does anyone here have any idea what’s going on?? And more importantly, how I can fix this problem? BTW, I’m using Windows XP o.s.
much obliged,
Chris
Last February, I bought a Digital Research dual format 8x burner. It worked fine for several months, and I burned 100s of dvds with no problem using Nero. At some point over the summer, halfway through a spindle of blanks, the burner quit burning at fast speeds; now, it would REPORT that it was burning at 4x or 8x (depending on what kind of blanks I was using), but it was actually burning at a much slower speed (it would routinely take between 50-70 minutes to burn a dvd-r). During this time, it continued to burn cd-r’s at a fast speed. Then about a month ago, it started taking an hour to burn a cd-r. I spoke to Digital Research’s online tech support, but they were really of no help – they suggested I upgrade to Nero 6.6 and use only TDK, Ritek and a few other brands of blanks. So I upgraded Nero, and I was already using TDK blanks, and there was no improvement.
A week ago, my roommate gave me an early Xmas present – an I/O Magic double format dual layer 16x internal dvd burner. I installed it, and burned a dvd at 8x speed and it seemed to work (Nero projected it would take 6-1/2 minutes, it actually took a little over 7 minutes, but hey, I wasn’t really concerned about that minor discrepancy). I thought my troubles were over.
The next day I tried to burn another dvd. Once again, Nero reported that it was burning at 8x, but I immediately noticed that based on the completion rate (2 % after 1 minute, ~ 20% after 10 minutes) that the new burner was burning as slow as the other one had been. Furthermore, after burning 38% of the disc, it just stopped burning. Task manager indicated that the program was Not Responding. I uninstalled Nero, and reinstalled it from the disc that came bundled with the new burner, and tried a new burn. Same result.
I tried burning some cd-r’s, and had no problem – although Nero reported it was burning them at 48x, it clearly wasn’t going that fast, but I think that’s because the Fuji cdr blanks I have are 8x blanks, and it burns them at about that speed (6-7 minutes per cdr). After burning several cd-r blanks, I tried again to burn a dvd, with the same results as before (slow burning, despite what Nero was reporting, and then hanging up at 38% completion). (Thanks God the cost of DVD blanks has come so much these days!).
This morning I downloaded CDBurner XP Pro 3, thinking perhaps it was the Nero software. And the same thing happened – the s/w reported that it was burning at 8x, though it clearly wasn’t, and at 39% it stopped burning altogether and reported the following error:
Writing Error (3).
Error occurred writing data to disc.
A NT disc I/O operation failed (1054).
Error Sense Data: SENSE KEY: FF ASC = 0 ASCQ: 79
So, does anyone here have any idea what’s going on?? And more importantly, how I can fix this problem? BTW, I’m using Windows XP o.s.
much obliged,
Chris