DVD burner problems

Post by **Nightshade** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 4:16 am

Ok, my old (AOpen) dvd burner was starting to act funny. It was burning VERRRY slowly, usually aborting with errors. It would also have problems when ripping images, although neither would happen consistently. So, I bought a Sony burner, installed it and the version of Nero that was packaged with it. Now it won't recognize my Verbatim DVD-Rs at all. I went and bought a pack of Sony DVDs to test, but like a dumbass, I got +Rs and this one needs -Rs.

Any suggestions? Other than trying the Sony -Rs which I'll do tomorrow.

Post by **YourGrandpa** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 5:05 am

The Sony media has always worked great for me. But I'd never buy a Sony drive. The reason. Sony is on the cutting edge of copyright protection and they region code their DVD drives. I'd trade that drive in for something else. I've got a Pioneer drive and it works awesome. There isn't anything I can't burn or burn to. Lite-On also makes a great drive that will do it all.

Post by **Scourge** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 5:20 am

YourGrandpa wrote: Lite-On also makes a great drive that will do it all.

Yep, I've got one. Highly recommended.

Post by **SoM** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 5:45 pm

i'll second the lite-on

also try a firmware update

Post by **Nightshade** » Mon Jan 01, 2007 8:54 pm

I figured out what the problem was.

Post by **YourGrandpa** » Mon Jan 01, 2007 8:59 pm

Is it my turn to guess?

Fill us in, buttplug.

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Mon Jan 01, 2007 9:07 pm

Nightshade wrote:I figured out what the problem was.

oh, come on.

Post by **Nightshade** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 3:01 am

I don't feel like looking like a complete idiot, so, no, no details.

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 3:20 am

fair enough

Post by **Scourge** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 3:46 am

PIO mode?

Post by **SoM** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 5:03 am

he tried sticking the cd in the floppy drive

Post by **Scourge** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 5:05 am

Bet he even folded it up.

Post by **axbaby** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 5:21 am

bets he simply rebooted

Post by **YourGrandpa** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 5:24 pm

He was putting the CD/DVD in upside down.

Post by **zolborg** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 5:11 am

He took the cd out of it's package before putting it in.

Post by **SoM** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 6:27 am

zolborg wrote:He took the cd out of it's package before putting it in.

ofcourse he'd do that, so would anyone else ya dumbass

make sense

Post by **zolborg** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 6:49 am

SoM wrote:he tried sticking the cd in the floppy drive

Dumbass???? And this makes more sense you moron.

I guess you don't understand sarcasm, which has been the whole point of this thread.