My HP 8x4x32x says cannot write at 8x! Help! **UPDATED** again!

[Scrapster]

Brand new HP 9150i 8x4x32x drive. I tried lowering the copy speed to 6x but I get the same error message when it is about to copy. I'm using Nero 5.0.3.8
I thought other people were having the same trouble but I forgot if they had found a solution. Any suggestions? Oh, and the cdr's are kingston 8x's.

Please help.

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[Scrapster]

Any suggestions?

 

[Steven the Leech]

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[HeinekinMan]

I don't know squat about Nero but I have a similar drive (HP 9110i) and have no problems burning at 8x. That's the only speed that I burn at with this unit or my Plextor 8432A.

Have you ever been able to burn at 8x with Nero? I would try some other s/w and experiment with different media brands. Although both my HP and Plextor will burn at 8x using just about ANY brand of media: no name, GQ or Great Quality (CMC Magnetics), Fuji Film, Taiyo Yuden, Verbatim, Maxell, Sony, TDK, Memorex, and Kodak. Tried em all, no problemos!

The BEST CD mastering s/w overall, in my opinion, is WinOnCD Power Edition. I've had no problem at all using it, worth every penny. Has all of the user friendliness of Adapcrap Easy CD Creator but is much more stable and robust.

These are the apps that I use and have virtually no problems with for on-the-fly burns at 8x: CeQuadrat (now a part of Adaptec) WinOnCD v3.7 Power Edition, Adaptec Easy CD Creator Standard v3.5c and Deluxe v4.02d, Padus Diskjuggler v3.0-750, and Goldenhawk CDRWin v3.8c. Also had good luck with Feurio although it is only good for making audio CD's which WinOnCD does a much better/easier job of in my opinion.

In each of my systems, I have DMA mode ENABLED in Win98SE (a MUST for some CDRW drives to burn at 8x, Plextor recommends this for example), each CDRW drive is configured on the Secondary IDE channel as MASTER, in each system I have a Kenwood UCR-421 72x CDROM reader configured on the Secondary IDE channel as SLAVE. You should only hang HD's on the Primary channel. This is the only configuration that would work for me and I tried every combo possible...

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[Angrymarshmello]

Sounds sorta like a buffer underrun. Try it off a fresh reboot with NO other programs running to see if it helps

 

[Scrapster]

***UPDATE***

I switched to WinOnCD. Seemed to write everything ok, BUT when I tried to play the cd I could only hear everyother song. If I tried to play any of the songs inbetween my player would pause at the start and than skip to the next track. I know the 'dead' songs were copied b/c it displays the correct time in 'time remaining'.
So...All my songs are getting copied but I can only play everyother one.

My HP 9150i is installed under secondary slave. I heard some people say master is the way to go. But I haven't fooled around with that yet.

Any new suggestions?

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[Scrapster]

Oh yeah, someone mentioned DMA should be enabled. How do you know if DMA is enabled already and if it isn't enabled, how do you enable it?

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[PCAddict]

Right click My Computer. Then click Properties. Go into Device Manager. Click on the + next to CDROM. After it unfolds, click on your CDRW (it will highlight in blue) and then click Properties. Make sure there is a check in the box next to DMA. Sometimes, you won't have a checkbox option if you have certain chipset drivers installed which will put the drive in DMA mode for you.

 

[Vinny N]

whoah, every other song?

By player you meant a standalone cdplayer right?
Have you tried that in your own cd-rom drive?

If it works fine in a different drive or player, try a different burn method.

Some players only like "Disc At Once", others only like "Track At Once".

 

[Scrapster]

**UPDATE**

Interesting. The first time I played the CD (the everyother song situation)it was on a separate computer (dell laptop). Now, I just put the CD in my other computer and it plays fine on that in both players (CDRW and plain CDROM). I just checked WinOnCD it was and is set to "Write track at once" and "On the Fly" mode is checked. Unfortunately I don't have a separate cd player with me to test it. Do you guys think my laptop cd player is funky or something else? Any more ideas or things to try out?

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Any suggestions?

 

[Vinny N]

Try to burn it again, with track at once unchecked...see if that makes it do disc at once.

On the fly probably refers to wave audio extract from cds or mp3s

quick fyi: a feature of disc at once is no 2 second gap between audio tracks, maybe your laptop cd-rom drive doesn't like those

How old is the laptop? Older laptop cd-rom drives can't even read cd-rws. Some new ones even have trouble reading cd-rws and certain cd-rs...So who knows what else it may not do quite like your desktop cd-rom drive.

 

[MiniMe69]

maybe try not burning music at 8x...best to use 2x or 4x or even 1x...