Problems with external DVD Burner

[hbhanu]

Hello all...I have a HP Pavillion Laptop (AMD Athlon XP-M 1800+, 512 MB, 30 GB, Windows XP, SP2) and an external I/O Magic DVD+/- DualLayer 16x Burner that prefers USB 2.0 (I only have 1.1 on my laptop so I purchased a PCMCIA cardbus adapter which works (cause I have a hub and whatnot plugged into it and all the other devices are functioning properly).

The drive allwos for flawless reading of DVDs & CDs but when I try to burn DVDs it gets to about 2/3rd of the way done and then stops and gives me a "Burn Failed" message.. I've tried with different media and at different speeds, but to no avail.

I'm currently using Nero 6 Ultra (OEM, got it w/ the burner) to burn the DVDs

Any help would be much appreciated...thanks in advance =)

 

[LTC8K6]

Do you have the buffer underrun protection turned on?

 

[hbhanu]

To my knowledge I do, cause I haven't touched any of Nero's settings =/

 

[slayek]

Originally posted by: hbhanu
To my knowledge I do, cause I haven't touched any of Nero's settings =/

Try look for the actual maker of the drive (NERO info tool may be handy) and go the manufacturer's site and flash the drive with latest firmware. Hope that will solve. Another way to get some success is slower writing speed. Try 4x or 2.4 x speed and see if you repeate the problem.

 

[firerock]

What kind of media have you tried? When Nero says burned failed, it is most likely w/ bad media or you ran out of buffer. What other programs are you running in the background?

 

[hbhanu]

I checked for newer firmware but it wasn't available for my model... As for what I have running when I burn: Trillian, Daemon Tools, and Winamp...sometimes Firefox, but not usually

I've tried on Phillips 1-8x DVD+R as well as Maxell's DVD+Rs

My friend suggested that I go to a previous restore point and upgrade windows to SP 2 and reinstall the DVD burner...I'm gonna try that and see if that helps too...

Thanks for all the help =)