any burning software + Liteon LTR-52327S CDRW + CDR's = lots of coasters

[Starfury_2260]

I'm having alot of trouble burning cds without making coasters. Both nero and Alcohol 120% failed to burn a iso of mandrake i got, resulting in a useless cd. I finally managed to get the 3 mandrake 10 cds made with Burn4free, though i later made a coaster with it when attempting to burn a audio cd. windows iTunes also made a coaster when i tried to burn a playlist created from an album I got on the music store. I dont know what the deal is. It's obviously not completely impossible to make cds (mandrake ones), but something is causing the process to quit.

I did go to liteon's website and got the newest firmware and flashed it to the CDRW but that didn't fix the problem.

[bailey]

if your useing the latest version of nero with burn proof, and a good quality cd blank, there is no way it will fail and not tell you a reason why it failed, nero will display a screen showing the burn progress and if a problem arises, you will see it, and it will tell you it failed, usally a coaster is becaused you did something wrong. and the burnning process did not like it.

[MadMan2k]

I got a lot of coasters with my free-after-rebates CDs. They only work for music CDs if you burn them at 2x :/

And I wouldn't even trust them for data.

[Starfury_2260]

i dont see this burn proof anywhere in nero.

[The_Shooter]

What are you system specs? Cause my old burner combined with my old computer would not burn something right unless I did nothing else on the computer during that time.
Make sure that you are not doing alot of stuff with your computer unless you have a good amount of RAM and a faster CPU. With my new computer, I can burn and do what ever without errors.

[yclyde]

Check in nero info tool & make sure aspi is installed.
Check to see if dma is enabled.
Upgrade to latest firmware.
If it's an nvidia board, there were some cd burning issues w/certain ide driver. upgrade to latest if you are using nvidia platform.
Maybe a bad drive? Or upgrade nero?

bout all I can think of.

[Starfury_2260]

It is an nvidia board. Not a problem with system slowing down, got a 2.2ghz Athlon XP barton and a gig of pc3200. The problem is my slow dialup connection makes it a chore to download drivers and stuff, plus I cant do much of anything on the internet while thats happening.

where's dma on the infotool? aspi installed and working properly

[yclyde]

To enable dma: Device manager> ide controllers>secondary>transfer mode - pio/dma. Check to see if it"s in dma mode.

Getting divers w/dialup IS an ugly task.

Hope that does it.

[yclyde]

I'm using the same drive w/o problem.

I noticed a new firmware update just added.

http://forum.rpc1.org/dl_firmware.php?download_id=1600

Might help.

[Starfury_2260]

the QSOE/QS57 is the firmware i have on the drive.