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Offline Kosh

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Another technical thread
on: June 25, 2006, 10:48:19 pm
This is the month of computer **** ups.


Today I bought some CDR's to back up stuff so I could reformat. Trouble, my burner doesn't want to write to them. I am not convinced the discs are bad, windows explorer can READ them just fine. In addition to this I remember that last year I got some new CDR's and I had the same problem. In addition to that the extra CDR's I brought with me from the US didn't work either (I thought they were all bad, so I tossed them).

Basically, Nero is giving me a "power calibration error". I also tried the windows burning software, and it said that "the write speed of your burner is lower than the high speed CDR, please try another CD" (or some BS like that).

So, is my burner finally biting the dust?
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Offline Descenterace

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Re: Another technical thread
Reply #1 on: June 26, 2006, 12:59:16 am
How fast can your burner write disks, and do these CD-Rs require a higher speed?

Reading a disk can be done at any speed. As far as I know, the same is true with writing, but there may be some anomalies. After all, you don't see many CD burners with a write speed below 16x these days.
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Offline Kosh

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Re: Another technical thread
Reply #2 on: June 26, 2006, 01:12:46 am
The CD's said 52X, but I swear I've burned 52X CD's before without any problems. The fastest my burner can write is 48X (I think).
"The reason for this is that the original Fortran got so convoluted and extensive (10's of millions of lines of code) that no-one can actually figure out how it works, there's a massive project going on to decode the original Fortran and write a more modern system, but until then, the UK communication network is actually relying heavily on 35 year old Fortran that nobody understands." - Flipside

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Offline Kosh

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Re: Another technical thread
Reply #3 on: June 26, 2006, 01:34:41 am
**** it, I'm just going to go buy a new burner.
"The reason for this is that the original Fortran got so convoluted and extensive (10's of millions of lines of code) that no-one can actually figure out how it works, there's a massive project going on to decode the original Fortran and write a more modern system, but until then, the UK communication network is actually relying heavily on 35 year old Fortran that nobody understands." - Flipside

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Offline Nuke

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Re: Another technical thread
Reply #4 on: June 26, 2006, 07:43:02 am
burners piss me off too. i bought a dvd burner and it refuses to burn dvds withut ****ing up. infact ive only burned 2 dvds with it. ive come to the concluion that all cd and dvd drives suck.
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Offline Flipside

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Re: Another technical thread
Reply #5 on: June 26, 2006, 07:48:36 am
I'd suggest that a lot of Torrented ISO's suck ;)
 

Offline Nuke

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Re: Another technical thread
Reply #6 on: June 26, 2006, 09:27:57 pm
i was trying to burn movies from mpeg or other formats, they transcoded fine but the didnt write fully. youde notice little bands of unwritten disc on the surface. like the laser went on a bathroom break in the middle of its shift.  thinking it was a problem with my video, i tried backing up some files with the nero backup tool, which didnt work either.  i also noticed, while trying to watch a porno, thad dvd playback also doesnt work to well. the burner still writes cds fine, or at least it did when i was burning linux isos awhile back. however in my case i think its a driver problem. i installed clone cd and after that is when i noticed the dvd burning didnt work. i uninstalled it but still it dont work. il probibly need to thump the machine for it to work again. the drive hasnt had enough usage for it to mechanically have worn down already.
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Offline Geezer

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Re: Another technical thread
Reply #7 on: June 26, 2006, 10:07:10 pm
Make sure the drive has the latest firmware. Also, I've had a lot of problems with Nero. You could try it with Ashampoo's free trial of Burning Studio 6 (but you'll have to uninstall Nero first). 
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Offline Turambar

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Re: Another technical thread
Reply #8 on: June 26, 2006, 10:55:32 pm
seriously, just whack the damn thing
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Offline Descenterace

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Re: Another technical thread
Reply #9 on: June 27, 2006, 01:15:43 am
Never had a problem with burners. Did these dodgy drives come in shop-built machines, or did you select them yourselves (from newegg, dabs, etc)? And what brand are they?
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Re: Another technical thread
Reply #10 on: June 27, 2006, 03:53:39 am
is it just me or does anyone else here have helluva lot of problems with nero burned DVD's?


they come out corrupted almost always... whats up with that?
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Offline Descenterace

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Re: Another technical thread
Reply #11 on: June 28, 2006, 01:02:41 am
Nero has given me fewer problems than any other CD/DVD burning app I've found. That includes CloneCD, cdrecorder (default under Linux) and any crap made by or associated with Roxio. I'd suspect your burner, or perhaps a compatibility issue between it and your version of Nero. Upgrade to version 6 and/or patch it.
« Last Edit: June 28, 2006, 01:06:55 am by Descenterace »
'And anyway, I agree - no sig images means more post, less pictures. It's annoying to sit through 40 different sigs telling about how cool, deadly, or assassin like a person is.' --Unknown Target

"You know what they say about the simplest solution."
"Bill Gates avoids it at every possible opportunity?"
-- Nuke and Colonol Drekker
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