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HELP! I think my burner might be dead! :(

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RaynorWolfcastle

Diamond Member
OK, title says it all but i wanna be sure.

I have an AOPEN 12x/10x/32x burner (the one WITHOUT burn-proof) and have been using the bundled NTI burning ROM. I have never had a coaster in about 6 months using it, and suddenly I get 2 in a row! Both at the same place (~187 MB mark) at that point, the cache drops to 0 out of nowhere and it sounds as if the drive is trying to spin up but can't. The burning ROM continues trying to feed it data, so it crashes. The eject button does not work at this point. I do a hard reboot and the drive still makes the weird spinning up sound, and after a few attempts at reading the disc it stops. Now, however, the eject button works. I put in a regular,printed CD (Starcraft) and the drive reads it fine.

What do you think the problem is? The drive? the media? the burning ROM? I'm starting to get a little collection of coasters here so any help would be appreciated

-Ice
 
I'd try new media before I gave up on the drive. You might also try new software with the old media just to narrow things down first.
 
Oh, yeah, I forgot to mention, its an audio CD, i've already made it into wav files and normalized it, if that changes anything. Also, I doubt its the media because CDMediaWorld seemed to think of it as decent. I'll try using another burning ROM.

-Ice

 
Whoa, this makes no sense, before burning, NERO says that the CD will be 78:39.06 mins long but that the files are 793 MB large! Is this just a bug or is something wrong.

-Ice
 
Looks like you found your problem. It sounds like the files do not meet the normal CD-Audio specs because the file size is larger than the time it is showing. You are trying to overburn the media! Try redoing the conversion and hopefully that will correct the problem. Good luck!
 
There's definetly a problem cuz i just reconverted them to .WAVs and it still shows that its 78 mins and 793 MB large. Is there any way to troubleshoot the problem? Windows indicates that they're encoded correctly (PCM, 44.1 KHz, 16-bit). I'm clueless,can anyone help me? Has anyone ever seen anything like this?

-Ice
 
When burning songs to a CD, I always load them up in winamp first, and watch the total time in the playlist. I'll convert them as one list of songs when I get 74min of audio.

You could try a different WAV converter as well. And make sure you're not adding other files to the CD then the wav files. (ie, if you moved the mp3s to a directory, and then converted to that directory, you might be burning a mixed-mode cd rather then audio only)
 
use the latest nero 5.5 and try it out...

also, what may work is a firmware hack to convert your AOpen 1232 to a Ricoh mp7125a (with justlink)...i know many people who have done it...i did my rw7120a and it worked fine...

that aopen drive is a rebadged ricoh drive the rw7120a to be exact).."rw" designates OEM, "mp" designates retail).

find your drive's firmware update, get the ricoh mp7125a firmware update, point the flashware to your drive's real firmware file, then before u go ahead and flash, rename your drive's firmware file into something else, and rename the ricoh mp7125a firmware file to your drive's firmware file name (before u renamed it of course)...

flash it...shut down, wait 30 sec., start up, and your drive is now a ricoh mp7125a w/ 4mb buffer and justlink...no more coasters.
 
MrBond, I do it the same way as you. Loaded them up into Winamp, it read 1:17 mins (77 mins on an 80min CD). Since they were mp3s (backups of my originals of course), I converted them using winamp's diskwriter, and wrote them into a new directory. When I open them in Nero, it shows 793 MB and 77 mins.

-Ice
 
Ok we understand that this may be a little upsetting but there's no need to YELL.

1) Are you using blanks that are more then 650MB/74 Mins.
2) Have you tried different media (different manufacturer, different size 80 min, 90 min).
3) Have you installed any new drivers on your system lately?
4) Have you tried burning a Audio CD, or doing a CD Copy, or burning a Data CD (something different from whatever you were doing when it quits at ~187MB).
5) Have you changed DMA or other OS settings (vcache, vm, etc...)

Thorin
 
Ok, removed most of te yelling from the title

Seems more and more like a software problem although i can't pinpoint it (80mins of stereo, PCM, 44.1 KHz, 16 bit audio should be 700 MB right?)

I am using Nero 5.5 right now

To answer your questions:
1) They are Maxell 80mins blanks
2) Yes, though I haven't burned because it seems like a software problem
3) I updated my SBLive! drivers 2 weeks ago, although that shouldn't change anything
4) Not until I find out what this software problem is
5) Nope, although I have installed memturboII but it hasn't run since I rebooted before burning the 2nd time

-Ice
 
I just skimmed this thread, but why dont u just try to burn something small? a cheap CDR is worth the waste compared to trashing an entire burner.

from what it seems, people have been telling you that your file size is way too big, yet u still dont seem to cut it down.

if u still cant burn a file size of say, 3 megs, THEN i think you have a problem. But the fact that you are having problems burning a file > 700 megs and cd media is only 650 or 700 megs, doesnt make sense.

Lichee
 
Don't pay attention to the size of the data when burning an audio CD. That's why the CD-R has 2 ratings- 700 mb or 80 minutes. As long as Nero says its under 80 minutes, it is. Why don't you try burning an audio CD from the mp3s and see if that will work. You can set Nero to normalize them on the fly.

~ph
 
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