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Anybody has the $30 off $150 coupon by any chance? Thanks.

I got mine this afternoon. Just love it. :) It writes at 8x on the Ridata 4x DVD+R. It's price goes down about $2 after I placed the order, but I got a free gift then. It doesn't matter anyways. I used Nero to test the drive on a DVD+R disk (3.23GB). The reading speed is 10.83x on...

You are right, I returned it to newegg.com this morning and I just ordered an NEC 3520A. ;) Thanks to newegg.com, they responsed quickly with an approved RMA number (no restocking fee). The shipping is $5.xx.

My 2500A automatically burns at the speed of 6x on the 4x Ridata DVD+R disks. For the DVD-R media I have, although it says 4x, my 2500A burns at 2x, and the Pioneer DVR-108 burns it at 4x (which is the only good thing I see from the Pioneer DVR-108 I had). I don't see any opition on Nero...

I bought a Pioneer DVR-108 last week, maybe I was just unlucky. It refused to burn DVD+R or CD-RW or erase CD-RW disks. I have tried everything I could, enabling the DMA manually or let the BIOS do it automatically. And tried DVR-108 on a desktop as well as a laptop using an enclosure (IEEE...

Thanks for the information! I think this one is worth trying. I'll like it if it's just as good as my 2500A. :)

I am giving up my Pioneer DVR-108 and thinking about getting an NEC dvd burner. 3520A is the only model available from newegg.com. My NEC 2500A works just fine, wasted only two of my DVD -/+R after burning more than 100 disks (when I was using disk copy). So I am hoping that 3250A is at least...

I see. I have the OEM version. Maybe I should stay with FW 1.14 for a while.

Yes, I have read something about enabling DMA, but how to do that. I have one DVD burner and one CD-RW writer. They are both in IDE slot 1, with the DVD writer being the primary. And two harddrives are in IDE slot 2. I have tried to switch the them also. ultra DMA 4 ultra 66 is set by...

Mine came with FW 1.14. Well the problem is, it's supposed to work on both DVD-R and DVD+R even when it was released. I have heard people having problem to install FW 1.18 and there is no way to restore back to 1.14 once upgraded. sigh...I have wasted 4 DVD+R disks on it. I have tried using...

I bought Pioneer DVR-108 last week, haven't successfully burned one single DVD+R so far. It works fine with DVD-R, but it doesn't work with my CD-RW disks either. When using DVD+R disks, Nero gives the following error msg: Windows XP 5.1 IA32 WinAspi: - ahead WinASPI: File...

Right. I wouldn't have installed windows on it if it was running at 200MHz. :) Still feels good when I am told it's alright. Thanks.

I bought AMD Athlon 64 3000+ with Gigabyte "GA-K8NS pro" from newegg.com, and other stuff of course. When I start the computer, before Windows OS starts, the system says the CPU clock is 200Mhz. But it's supposed to be 2000MHz. Is there anything wrong with the system? My windows runs well...

Thanks. But I am not sure if it's too early to go for 200GB, anyways, I already have a 40GB one. I think the memory is a good deal. :)

Thanks for the valuable suggestions. I am not sure about the Power Supply of the case, might need to do research on that. I also saw some cases have 4 fans....and the CPU I choose has only one fan coming with the box. I think one fan should be enough. I really appreciate your help. Any...