[zokus]

Well, thanks to some valuable suggestions I have fixed my first problem. No longer do the DVD's skip part way through. It turned out to be a medium problem. But now I find that certain DVD's won't play on my burner. It just sits there and hums and locks up any program that has to do with that particular drive.

 

[ThE_GeNeRaL]

have you checked to see what mode it is running on its probaly on PIO i had a similar problem cause of that

 

[zokus]

how do I check the mode?

 

[ThE_GeNeRaL]

go to your device manager then go to the ide controllers then it should be under primary or secondary which ever you have it on

 

[zokus]

It's on ultra DMA 2 - Ultra 66. Whatever that means.

 

[ThE_GeNeRaL]

hmm have you got the nvidia SW drivers installed???

 

[Chipmonk010]

i had this problem and for some reason reinstalling my sound card driver fixed it.....it was onboard sound so i just ran the nvidia driver setup thing that came w/ my MB and it fixed it......it was pretty weird...

 

[zokus]

SW drivers, like at ATA drivers? yes I do, should I reinstall? I'll try the sound thing too.

 

[zokus]

can someone clarify what the SW drivers are?

 

[SpookedJunglist]

after burning 200dvds or so it died... but it died in a different way and i concluded it had something to do with the on drive buffer...

when burning in nero i would watch the buffer and it was so inconsistant, it would fluctuate from 90 to 0% like 20 times per second. i thought it could be a fragmentation issue but the buffer that is on the computer read 100%
i still defragmented all my drives and that did not help. so i installed in my folding rig to check for consistency... so it did the same thing.. so i bought a new one..

dont know if this is your problem though...

 

[zokus]

nope, I saw your post on that. My problem is that it won't even read the disk. DVD shrink, my computer, and PowerDVD all crash when I put the disk in. It works on the DVD player that I have on my TV.

 

[Chipmonk010]

Quote:

Originally Posted by zokus can someone clarify what the SW drivers are?

they are just optimized ide drivers that replace microsofts default drivers and give your slightly faster HD speeds.

 

[zokus]

Well, i reinstalled all of those drivers and now everything is hunky dory. You guys made my whole week. THX! Lol, it's usually the simple things that solve complex problems