burner isn't burning at all...

[willaby]

...except for copy on the fly. I have a Lite-on LTR-401255 40x12x48 burner that I bought a year or so ago, and I used it when I built my system. A couple months ago I accidentally caused some major problems (it's a long story) and the short if it is I had to roll back the system to get it working again. However, it seems that some things just haven't worked quite right since then. Like my burner.

I was using Nero 5, which came with the burner, and it worked out just fine until I had my problems. Recently I upgraded to Nero 6 to see if it would fix it, but it works no better. WMP (which I think sucks anyway) won't work for anything. The point is, I think that I have a hardware problem. Every time I try to burn, I get an error message in the Nero status window that says "SCSI Command Aborted" (the error message was basically the same in Nero 5). The same error appears even when I try to do a simulation.

After it screws up and stops (and I save the log) nero is very sluggish and usually freezes, and I have to use task manager to close it. It locks up the drive (won't let me open it for anything) and the light on the front that reads green for access and red for burning glows in a strange orange-type way. My system acts strangely with skipping music and such, even though the task manager says that almost none of the processor is in use and I have plenty of RAM left. When I go to "my computer" and try to right-click on the drive to go to properties, the right-click menu never appears and windows explorer freezes up, and of course I have to close it with task manager which of course closes the entire desktop and then I have to restart my computer. BAH. It's very maddening.

Anyway, I have a custom system with the following specs:

WinXP Home Edition SP1 (with all the latest updates)
AMD Athlon XP 3000+ "Barton" 2.17 GHz processor
1 Gig of Corsair DDR-RAM
120 Gig Western Digital HD
Chaintech 7NJS Ultra ZENITH Mobo
Chaintech Vid Card with NVIDIA® GeForce4™ Ti4800SE GPU and 128 MB VRAM
Creative SoundBlaster Audio PCI 128 Sound Card
Lite-on LTR-401255 40x12x48 burner
Samsung DVD drive
(I have the DVD drive and burner both on IDE 2 with the DVD reader as master and burner as slave)

Like I said, it works quite well for copying on the fly with the DVD reader as the source drive. It works for nothing else, though.

[John Prophet]

Welcome to the forum!

Sounds like a drag. Lite on drives are great drives though.

Just by chance, do you have InCD running? If so, I would disable it from starting...or uninstall it altogether....I have seen it cause problems before.

Also, maybe try the lite on as master without the dvd drive on the cable at all....just to see what happens there...see if you can burn some files to a cd.

JP

[willaby]

Honestly, I don't know what InCD is (i searched for it, came up with nothing) or if I have it running or not. However, I think I will try the burner-as-master thing for now and see how it goes.