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Thanks for the help. I did just that actually, uninstalled imgburn and installed the latest (my other install was 2.3.1.0) and now it works. I still am making an ISO first before I burn, though, I just feel a bit better (safer) about doing it that way since there is then at least one task (collecting all the many files) that my PC and Imgburn does not need to do. - Steve, Denmark

I never experienced problems before now with Imgburn. But now after making an ISO file in build mode, and then trying to write the ISO in Write mode to a Verbatim +R DVD, I get this warning: Your image does not appear to be in the correct format for burning a DVD. Image format Mode1/2352 DVD format: Mode1/2048 Continue anyway? After I say yes, continue, Imgburn asks if I want to change the format on the fly so I say yes. After the burn, my dvd device cannot read the DVD that I just burned with it. Can someone explain what is going on here? How do I get Imgburn to do what it is supposed to be doing, namely creating an ISO file that can be burned to a DVD in the correct format? Thanks for any help, Steve, Denmark

Hi again! I reduced the burn rate settings from 8x to 6x and so far I have had no more failures with when synchronizing cache. According to a Google search, apparently there are some compatibility issues with the Pioneer 109 burner and its latest firmware versions. Although I am using Verbatim -R DVD's rated to 16x, and my Pioneer 109 says (with original firmware) that it can handle 8x, it seems that on my PC, burning at 8x is unstable. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't because of this syncronizing cache stage error. So it seems that my problem is solved for now (I hope, I hope). I just burn at a slightly slower rate. For my purposes, it is good enough. Thanks all! Steve, Denmark

Wow, I have been away from my thread for a while. Thanks for all the posts, guys! All very helpful. After upgrading ImgBurn I had no further problems until today. I don't think it was the upgrade that made any difference. I would like to post a log of a failed session, but the problem is that when I have a failure while "synchronizing cache", the DVD burner no longer responds to my wishes (have to hard-reboot the computer) and I cannot shut down ImgBurn. And it doesn't seem as if the ImgBurn log becomes updated when this happens. I have no logging of the sessions that have failed. I didn't try the F8 key though, and I will try that next time I have a failure. The person who mentioned a Google search showed compatibility problems with the Pioneer 109 has probably found the answer to my problems. There must be a hard/software incompatibility with my system and my burner. I'll also see if I can find some answers in such a search. Thanks for the explanations about the synchronize caching! Regards, Steve, Denmark

Yes I should have posted a log, everyone is correct here. And now I will indeed wait until the problem happens again, now that I upgraded my imgburn. But: does anyone out there understand the burn process well enough to explain to me what the "synchronizing cache" step means and is trying to do? Maybe if I understood this I could begin to search for problems in my OS or my DVD burner. I assume by logs you people mean a log created by imgburn. I haven't looked for where I might find this, I assume something in the imgburn interface will lead me to it. But does anyone know how I find a log that might be produced by my DVD burner? Do they normally create logs? Or do I need to look in some Windows log to see what might be happening? Any tip here would be appreciated, I can then do a thorough log search next time the problem occurs. Thanks!

Well, that doesn't convince me entirely that the problem is not due to Imgburn. But yes, it could be elsewhere, either in my DVD media, or my burner or my operating system or computer. Can anyone enlighten me as to what might be the source of this problem? Does anyone else have it? Can someone explain what this "synchronization" step is for? I mean, the burn is finished, isn't it? When it goes wrong, the synchronization starts (according to the Imgburn GUI) but stays on 0% complete, and the DVD burner starts cycling as if repeatedly trying to read or write something but can't. I am using, by the way, Verbatim single layer -R media, so the media should be good enough. Reason why I close the program is because I am not always burning one DVD right after the other, as in making multiple copies of the same image. I am usually doing other things, but then trying to burn a second DVD before restarting the computer. I have just upgraded my Imgburn, so hopefully the problem will go away, if it was a compatibility problem between the hard and software. Thanks for any help!

I don't know if this is a problem related to ImgBurn, or my computer or my burner, but perhaps someone could explain to me what is happening. I have an Intel Pentium 4 2.4GHz PC with 1GB RAM. OS is Windows2000. Am using an internal Pioneer 109 burner with the latest firmware installed. I can burn one image to a DVD with ImageBurn with no problems. But if I try to burn a second image (I close and restart the program inbetween), the computer hangs up after 100% of the image has been burned, and the ImgBurn GUI says it is "synchronizing the cache". In this case the status of cache synchronization remains at 0%, and the DVD burner makes a cyclic sound as if it is trying again and again to read something. At this point I have to hard reboot my PC. A normal shutdown does not work (hangup). Can anyone tell me if this is an ImgBurn related problem? Or what the problem might be? Thanks!