Burned DVDs keep screwin up

[skeedo]

They used to be fine, now they either freeze up or are unreadable in a regular DVD player.

I'm using nero and Maxell 8x 4.6gb DVDs. I just go to new DVD Video and drag all DVD files into VIDEO_TS folder, I don't use any special options. Is there some other way I should be burning in Nero?, or a better program to burn with?

 

[drthpichu]

Try burning at a slower speed. Also check the discs for read errors after you burn them.

 

[skeedo]

Went all the way down to 4x, still screws out. Tried dvd santa as well, still messed. Nero gives me all kind of read errors after burning. The movies either freeze up or become unreadable at the start or won't even read at all.

Burner is NEC 3520A. Could AVG antivirus possibly causing problems? Or other background programs?

 

[kmmatney]

If Nero is giving all sorts of read errors, then it sounds like the problem is either your media or the DVD burner. I would first try some new media...

 

[Xyclone]

Originally posted by: drthpichu
Try burning at a slower speed.

 

[skeedo]

It doesn't make sense though, I've been burning movies on the same media at 8x before and they worked fine. Now not one without an error. No use burning slower or trying new media if it worked fine before....

 

[Keysplayr]

Sounds like your DVD burner is either mechanically defecting or your laser lens is dirty.
either way, it's RMA time.

 

[Kogan]

I had a similar problem with an older pioneer dvd burner. It just wouldn't work with certain media all of a sudden. Since it wasn't worth much anymore and I was going to upgrade it anway, I took it apart and cleaned the lens. Worked perfect after that and still works great in my brother's computer.

A dirty lens may very well not be your problem though... If different media doesn't work, RMA the drive if you can.

 

[gsellis]

There is missing information here:

What is the settop you are playing it on? If you say Daewoo, I know what the problem is (Nero sees read errors, so the issue is generally burner or media)

Is this +R or -R media? (should not matter with Nero seeing read errors)

Do you have the latest BIOS for your burner? (BIOS updates also include patches for media compatibility).

Have you tried a different brand of disc? See if you can borrow a disc from someone else. Check the media you have very carefully for blemishes. Although Maxell is one of the better medias, you could have discs from a bad batch.

Are you using labels on your discs or stickers? Anything attached to the disc can cause read errors because of high-speed wobble.

 

[skeedo]

Can somebody tell me how to clean the lense...dust could be the culprit cuz my computer inhales it like a coke fiend Compton hooker.

 

[Bozono]

I've had good luck cleaning lasers as well. Simply take off the top civer of the drive(usually about 4 screws and push-in tabs) and clean with a Q-tip. Be careful to not break any tabs as that can mess with stability of the disc spinning.

 

[Slammy1]

A friend had a very similar issue recently, it turned out the burner had switched to PIO-mode. Check it out in device manager, reinstall the channel if that's the cause. If it keeps downgrading, consider updating the firmware for your drive. I'm running the 1UG update from here:
http://club.cdfreaks.com/showthread.php?t=139533

 

[skeedo]

Ok now i'm quite pissed off.

I RMA'd the drive fearing something was wrong with it. Got a new one, this time 3540A.

Burned a DVD, STILL THE SAME #@$#%#$^%#! ERRORS. Data verification passed, I even shut down all tasktray programs and burned at 4x, still didn't burn properly. PIO mode is not on.

What in $hit is going on here? I'm ready to kill somebody.

 

[jevans64]

Try creating an md5sum of the data you are trying to back up and save the sum file where the data is. You can go here ( http://www.irnis.net/ ) to get a trial version of a GUI-based sum creater. Burn another DVD then do a md5sum compare on the burnt DVD.

I've been creating sum files and placing them on my CDs/DVDs for years now. The sum file is just a text file and is very small. It makes the job if verifying the data much easier and quicker.

You could also get one of your known good DVDs you created when the drive was working, create a sum of it ( using a different DVD drive than the problem one ), then run the sum of it using the problem drive to compare it. Since you received a new DVD drive, getting any compare errors would suggest a bad cable or maybe memory going bad. It probably wouldn't hurt to download and run memtest86 to test your system memory.

 

[Fingolfin269]

It's always possible you got a bad batch of discs. It has happened to all of us.