Burners wont Burn!

[Juice Box]

I got a Lite on ltr 52327S and a NEC 1300A burners, and i have been burning hundreds of the same cd throughout the past week. All of a sudden, the burning program (both alcohol 120 and nero) says it cannt complete the burning on either burner because the medium may have changed?? The only thing i have changed was some startup options in msconfig, which i know would not affect it. I looked for firmware and or drivers and found none. I dont know why it would do this, and i really need to finish these cds.

 

[Juice Box]

This is the error i get in the log file:

16:19:46 Source Info: Session: 1, Track: 12, Length: 434.5 MB / 049:26:27
16:19:47 (F LITE-ON LTR-52327S(1:1): Recording Method/Speed
16:19:47 Recording - DAO / SAO - 52X (7800 KB/Sec)
16:19:47 (F LITE-ON LTR-52327S(1:1): BURN-Free activated
16:20:00 (F LITE-ON LTR-52327S(1:1) - [Write PREGAP area ERROR]: -150 - 0
S:KEY - 06/28/00 - "Not Ready To Ready Change, Medium May Have Changed"
16:20:00 (F LITE-ON LTR-52327S(1:1): Recording failed!
16:20:00 Error message: [06/28/00] - Not Ready To Ready Change, Medium May Have Changed
16:20:00 (F LITE-ON LTR-52327S(1:1): Recording failed!
16:20:00 Image file loading aborted!
16:20:02 Something is wrong with the recording procedure!
Please check the log file and report any errors to Technical Support.

 

[Juice Box]

sorry about smilies, forums must have added them!

 

[Markfw]

and i have been burning hundreds of the same cd

You won't get any help if you are illegally copying CD's.... What is it you are making so many copies of ?

 

[Juice Box]

I gaurntee you the cds are legit. My friend put out a cd of his band, and i am doing duplication work for him cause i have a much faster comp, and 2 burners. He has aksed me to make him sevreal hundred copies, and i am doing so. I just wanna know why it has stopped working

 

[Markfw]

OK, thanks for the explanation. I wouldn;t want to contribute to warezing.

Anyway, a while back I had problems like this. The burners get too hot. They are not commercial quality, and not designed to do non-stop burning like that. Turn the PC OFF and let it cool for a while (hours ??) and turn it on and try again. If that solves the problem, the first time you get the error again, turn it off and let it cool down. I couldn;t do more than 10 on mine before it went bezerk, but that was when I had a 2x burner....(burning video of the school play for other parents, no warezing)

 

[wicktron]

What are your system specs? Chipset and OS in particular.

 

[Juice Box]

i got amd barton 3000 400fsb
512 mb pc3200 Ram
9600 xt video
80 gig and 20 gig hd
dfi lan party nf2 ultra mobo
windows xp pro

 

[wicktron]

I think the problem lies in your chipset drivers. I recommend rolling back your IDE drivers to generic ones. I assume that when you installed your chipset drivers that you installed the "Nvidia SW drivers." Anyway, try that. I think it will fix your problem

 

[Markfw]

DON'T do the drivers. It was working and stopped ? Not a driver problem. Try the cool-down I suggested, and reply back with results.

Another possibility is that you just wore out the burners. My first burner died after about 100 burns(2x), the next went to about 200(6x) burns, and my current one is at about 200 burns and going strong (32x burner)

 

[Juice Box]

I assure you the cd burners have been doing nothing for at least 10 hrs, and still refuse to burn!

 

[Markfw]

But was the computer off ? They need to have no power going thru then for hours. You could remove the power plugs if you need the computer.

Also note my update above about "they may have died"

 

[Juice Box]

yeah, it was left overnight, and when i came back they did not work

 

[Juice Box]

its just wierd how both of them magically gave out at the same time

 

[Markfw]

Can you borrow a burner for a bit to test ? I really think something in hardware croaked, and the drives would be my first guess. You can get one free (or almost) after rebates, the last one I got was $5 after rebates.

 

[Juice Box]

i can get one from my other computer but what do you want me to do. Put it in my comp and try to burn???

 

[Juice Box]

but why would both f them magically give out at the exact same time though??

 

[Markfw]

I don;t know, but you shouldn;t have to to anything but put the other one in, and it should work, UNLESS your psu did something funny. Check your voltages with a VOM first, then try it if they are OK.

 

[Juice Box]

man this pisses me off, i JUST got that NED dvd burner too!! Maybe I can try letting it site one more night

 

[Markfw]

One other question, were you doing anything with this computer other than burning during that week, especially the day it quit ?

And check the PSU also regardless. Let us know the results.

 

[Juice Box]

nothing else, what u mean by check psu?

 

[Markfw]

check the voltage coming out of the PSU with a VOM, OK ?

 

[lilmoonee]

do u have another machine to try the drives on? or even try using a knoppix live cd if u are comfortable with using linux. my guess is a software problem. good luck

 

[Gunbuster]

try system restoring back to a point before you mucked around with msconfig and the burners were working

 

[Bassyhead]

Originally posted by: Gunbuster
try system restoring back to a point before you mucked around with msconfig and the burners were working

yeah and remember to seek out simpler solutions before trying more complicated ones