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Are yall having fun?

What about Shamus?

How could I forget that one? Shame on me!

Has anyone tried it yet? - http://www.digital-digest.com/news-59793.html

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Nothing wrong with showing your "feminine" side LUK! Trust me, I speak from experience. lmao

Mine does the samething. With 1.1.0.0 I could burn and just surf the web at the same time no problem. With this version I have now (1.2.0.0), when I'm burning, thats the only thing I can do. I can click the "Start" button and it doesn't come up until about 7 seconds later. Looking forward to the next version.

cynthia, send me one of those DVD-R:MCC 03RG20 blanks and I'll test it out on mine. PM me for my address.

I was just looking at the sticks I pulled out, whats the difference between DDR 333 & DDR 400? (Thinking to myself "That might be the compatibility problem?) The DDR 333 stick was the 128MB stick that came out of the DELL. The DDR 400 stick was the 512MB stick that came out of the Compaq.

No I didn't, I think I will just hold off until I can buy another stick of the same brand.

I was seriously thinking about taking the one stick of Compaq 512MB and swapping it with the Corsair in my moms.

This computer intially had 1 stick of Corsair 512MB of RAM. I bought another stick of that same RAM for my second PC (which I no longer have). I ended up giving that stick to my mother cause she only had a 128MB stick in her Dell. My brothers Compaq PC crashed on him so I robbed a 512MB stick from it. I then put the 512MB Compaq and the Dell 128MB stick along with my Corsiar 512MB stick. I learned the hard way not to mix RAM. It won't happen again. lol

Yep

Ok, thanks!

Thanks for the reply LUK! Excuse my ignorance here but, what is "WOPC"? It is how we learn after all.

Well, the problem was a bad stick of RAM. Removed it then tried it again and it went as smooth as pie.

Yea it is.........I get all my NEC firmware from here: http://www.micheldeboer.nl/firmware/ (I re-installed the same firmware again, and I installed the NEC 3520 in this PC. I will try later on testing them. Right now I am installing all the software for my PC, as I just got done reformatting.)

I change the BIOS to boot from CD. Upon rebooting, my BIOS hangs for about 60 seconds, then proceeds to load. When it says press any key to boot from CD, I then press a key. It then goes to a black screen that says "Setup is inspecting your configuration" (or something close to that). It never loads. or I just didn't wait long enough. I waited for like 10 min. There is no activity light blinking either. What could be wrong?

Well, this is wierd. It started out the same as before. Although, it took until like %40 percent before it would go past 4.1X but, it got all the way up 8.4X by the end. I 18:52:27 ImgBurn Version 1.1.0.0 started! I 18:52:27 Microsoft Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600 : Service Pack 2) I 18:52:27 Initialising SPTI... I 18:52:27 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices... I 18:52:27 Found 2 DVD?RWs! I 18:55:14 Operation Started! I 18:55:14 Source File: D:\TWO_FOR_THE_MONEY.ISO I 18:55:14 Source File Sectors: 2,285,848 (MODE1/2048) I 18:55:14 Source File Size: 4,681,416,704 bytes I 18:55:14 Source File Implementation Identifier: DVD Shrink I 18:55:14 Destination Device: [1:0:0] _NEC DVD_RW ND-3540A 1.W8 (N:) (ATA) I 18:55:14 Destination Media Type: DVD+R (Disc ID: MCC-004-00) (Speeds: 2.4x, 4x, 6x, 8x, 12x, 16x) I 18:55:14 Destination Media Sectors: 2,295,104 I 18:55:14 Write Mode: DVD I 18:55:14 Write Type: DAO I 18:55:14 Write Speed: 8x I 18:55:14 Link Size: Auto I 18:55:14 Test Mode: No I 18:55:14 BURN-Proof: Enabled I 18:55:14 Filling Buffer... I 18:55:15 Writing LeadIn... I 18:55:36 Writing Image... I 19:04:48 Synchronising Cache... I 19:04:49 Closing Track... I 19:05:01 Finalising Disc... I 19:05:15 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:10:00 I 19:05:15 Average Write Rate: 8,282 KB/s (6.0x) - Maximum Write Rate: 11,684 KB/s (8.4x) I 19:05:15 Cycling Tray before Verify... I 19:05:30 Operation Started! I 19:05:30 Source Device: [1:0:0] _NEC DVD_RW ND-3540A 1.W8 (N:) (ATA) I 19:05:30 Source Media Type: DVD+R (Disc ID: MCC-004-00) (Speeds: 2.4x, 4x, 6x, 8x, 12x, 16x) I 19:05:30 Image File: D:\TWO_FOR_THE_MONEY.ISO I 19:05:30 Image File Sectors: 2,285,848 (MODE1/2048) I 19:05:30 Image File Size: 4,681,416,704 bytes I 19:05:30 Image File Implementation Identifier: DVD Shrink I 19:05:30 Verifying Sectors... I 19:10:36 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:05:05 I 19:10:36 Average Verify Rate: 14,989 KB/s (10.8x) - Maximum Verify Rate: 21,415 KB/s (15.5x)

16X works great! I 15:55:08 ImgBurn Version 1.1.0.0 started! I 15:55:08 Microsoft Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600 : Service Pack 2) I 15:55:08 Initialising SPTI... I 15:55:08 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices... I 15:55:08 Found 2 DVD?RWs! I 15:55:38 Operation Started! I 15:55:38 Source File: D:\DOWN_IN_FRAGGLE_ROCK.ISO I 15:55:38 Source File Sectors: 2,285,876 (MODE1/2048) I 15:55:38 Source File Size: 4,681,474,048 bytes I 15:55:38 Source File Implementation Identifier: DVD Shrink I 15:55:38 Destination Device: [1:0:0] _NEC DVD_RW ND-3540A 1.W8 (N:) (ATA) I 15:55:38 Destination Media Type: DVD+R (Disc ID: MCC-004-00) (Speeds: 2.4x, 4x, 6x, 8x, 12x, 16x) I 15:55:38 Destination Media Sectors: 2,295,104 I 15:55:38 Write Mode: DVD I 15:55:38 Write Type: DAO I 15:55:38 Write Speed: MAX I 15:55:38 Link Size: Auto I 15:55:38 Test Mode: No I 15:55:38 BURN-Proof: Enabled I 15:55:38 Filling Buffer... I 15:55:39 Writing LeadIn... I 15:56:01 Writing Image... I 16:01:09 Synchronising Cache... I 16:01:10 Closing Track... I 16:01:24 Finalising Disc... I 16:01:44 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:06:05 I 16:01:44 Average Write Rate: 14,891 KB/s (10.8x) - Maximum Write Rate: 22,136 KB/s (16.0x) I 16:01:44 Cycling Tray before Verify... I 16:02:00 Operation Started! I 16:02:00 Source Device: [1:0:0] _NEC DVD_RW ND-3540A 1.W8 (N:) (ATA) I 16:02:00 Source Media Type: DVD+R (Disc ID: MCC-004-00) (Speeds: 2.4x, 4x, 6x, 8x, 12x, 16x) I 16:02:00 Image File: D:\DOWN_IN_FRAGGLE_ROCK.ISO I 16:02:00 Image File Sectors: 2,285,876 (MODE1/2048) I 16:02:00 Image File Size: 4,681,474,048 bytes I 16:02:00 Image File Implementation Identifier: DVD Shrink I 16:02:00 Verifying Sectors... I 16:07:02 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:05:02 I 16:07:02 Average Verify Rate: 15,138 KB/s (10.9x) - Maximum Verify Rate: 22,071 KB/s (15.9x)

I watched it today while I was burning. It gets to 4.1X by 4%. From there it reaches 6.2X at %35, then goes back down to 4.1X around %40 and stays there until it is finished. Even though I selected 8X speed. Here is the log: I 15:38:30 ImgBurn Version 1.1.0.0 started! I 15:38:30 Microsoft Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600 : Service Pack 2) I 15:38:30 Initialising SPTI... I 15:38:30 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices... I 15:38:30 Found 2 DVD?RWs! I 15:39:08 Operation Started! I 15:39:08 Source File: D:\ICE_AGE_DS1.ISO I 15:39:08 Source File Sectors: 1,620,085 (MODE1/2048) I 15:39:08 Source File Size: 3,317,934,080 bytes I 15:39:08 Source File Implementation Identifier: DVD Shrink I 15:39:08 Destination Device: [1:0:0] _NEC DVD_RW ND-3540A 1.W8 (N:) (ATA) I 15:39:08 Destination Media Type: DVD+R (Disc ID: MCC-004-00) (Speeds: 2.4x, 4x, 6x, 8x, 12x, 16x) I 15:39:08 Destination Media Sectors: 2,295,104 I 15:39:08 Write Mode: DVD I 15:39:08 Write Type: DAO I 15:39:08 Write Speed: 8x I 15:39:08 Link Size: Auto I 15:39:08 Test Mode: No I 15:39:08 BURN-Proof: Enabled I 15:39:08 Filling Buffer... I 15:39:09 Writing LeadIn... I 15:39:31 Writing Image... I 15:49:14 Synchronising Cache... I 15:49:15 Closing Track... I 15:49:27 Finalising Disc... I 15:49:44 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:10:35 I 15:49:44 Average Write Rate: 5,567 KB/s (4.0x) - Maximum Write Rate: 8,640 KB/s (6.2x)

You all are just jealous cause I'm in touch with my femine side, and yall aren't!

Yes I do and damn proud of it too! Some are actually really comfortable.

The 3520 is in my closet. It was in my second PC but, that PC blew up. So I took out everything that was salvageable and chunked the rest in the trash. I'll try to roll back the drivers chewy.

It was 4.35 GB . Motherboard Info: