So i got one of these drives recently since my old lg drive couldnt burn dual layers. This one burns them like a king and they work great but when it comes to normal dvd's it hangs every time. To write the lead in it takes about 10 mins, i left the thing running for 12 hours and it was 4% complete at a whopping 2kb/s.
The drive reads dvds perfectly fine, just cant write them at all.
The two types of disks i have used are:
verbatim x16 dvd+r (dont have the cover anymore so exact manu info isnt available)
memorex x16 dvd+r (these are the ones i have been pissing away as coasters since i have a tonne of them, they are lightscribe as well)
When i put my old dvd writer in they burn perfectly fine so i am not suspecting its the media.
I am running vista ulti 64 bit. Things i have tried:
set region on dvd burner
updated firmware to latest version
uninstall device in safemode and reboot
uninstall IDE channel in safemode and reboot
uninstall all other burning software but imgburn and reboot
tested other dvd burner with same disks (they work)
tried burning just files to disk from windows and using imgburn, both fail
here is my imgburn log, note the timestamps
Any help would be appreciated. My gut is telling me its a dud drive
//****************************************\\; ImgBurn Version 2.4.4.0 - Log ; Tuesday, 19 May 2009, 08:21:52 ; \\****************************************// ; ; I 19:36:21 ImgBurn Version 2.4.4.0 started! I 19:36:21 Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate x64 Edition (6.0, Build 6001 : Service Pack 1) I 19:36:21 Total Physical Memory: 8,386,124 KB - Available: 7,222,416 KB I 19:36:21 Initialising SPTI... I 19:36:21 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices... I 19:36:21 Found 1 DVD