Quake3World

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.

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.

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

Yep, I've got one. Highly recommended.

i'll second the lite-on

also try a firmware update

I figured out what the problem was.

Is it my turn to guess?


Fill us in, buttplug.

Nightshade wrote:I figured out what the problem was.

oh, come on.

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

fair enough

PIO mode?

he tried sticking the cd in the floppy drive

Bet he even folded it up.

bets he simply rebooted

He was putting the CD/DVD in upside down.

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

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

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.