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You've updated the bios on the board yeah? According to the family tree info, your board uses an ATI chipset. Take a look at their website for drivers for motherboards / sata controllers. It might be worth trying the ElbyCDIO interface to see if that can bypass anything that's messing things up. You'll do have to install an Elaborate Bytes / Slysoft product in order to get that installed.

Right click the drive selection box and pick 'family tree'. Close the prompt that comes up and then copy and paste everything from the log window.

Are you talking about an option under 'Database' -> 'Get CD Information From' ? Go into 'File' -> 'Drive Options' and tick the box on the 'Drive' tab to say your drive can read CD Text. EAC is an advanced tool and needs a bit of configuring.

Open it in notepad and edit away.

Can EAC do everything you need?

With 20 seconds between each retry, it would appear your drive really is trying its hardest to find a suitable power level for the laser for the media you're trying to use... its just unable to do so. A firmware update may help... http://www.firmwarehq.com/LG/GH24NSB0/files.html After that, you can try adjusting the write speed down to 8x, cleaning the drive with a cleaning disc and using different discs. If it still fails, I'd be looking at buying another drive. Oh and no, burnproof doesn't mean that.

The defaults should work just fine. Post the log please and go into device manager and check the drive is listed there ok - post a screenshot too if possible.

Then you're lucky. Your drive is reporting a 'write error', there's nothing I can do about that. It's tell the program is can't write to the disc for some reason (optodisc are junk) All recent (last 10 - 15 years) drives follow the same command set (detailed in the MMC specs), so ImgBurn supports all drives that comply with that spec. There are a couple of things you can adjust that might make your drive behave differently, but if your drive/firmware/media combo was working correctly, such changes shouldn't be necessary. Things to change are... 1. Enable the 'Perform OPC before write' option. 2. Write type to 'Incremental'. Obviously you aren't going to read threads on here about successes with a drive, nobody is going to bother posting if they *don't* have a problem.

Does the PS1 sound like it's having trouble reading the disc? Have you tried cleaning its laser? If you take an image of a working disc and then burn it back to another one, there's no reason it shouldn't work - assuming the burn is decent quality and the ps1 can read it.

You need to save the cue in Unicode format. The option is in the save box.

The only way to do that in ImgBurn is by using Read mode to create an image file and then Write mode to burn the image file to a new disc.

TY never really got into making BD discs.

The firmware (v1.02) on your drive is out of date btw, you can get the latest version (v1.04) from here: http://www.firmwarehq.com/download_1882-file_BDR-206MBK_FW104EU.EXE.html

Sticking with DVD+R discs, I'd get some Verbatim ones using the MCC mid/dye. Your current ones are using the RITEK mid/dye. Make sure you look for the proper 'Azo' Verbatim discs, not their value range.... they'd probably use the CMC mid/dye.

Your drive reported a 'write error' when trying to burn the disc. It would appear it doesn't like them and you should buy some other ones.

Yes it's fine and yes it'll work burning an iso to the disc using write mode.

Your log suggests the drive can't find a suitable laser power setting for the discs you're using. Memorex is the brand name. The MID / dye their discs use cam change. Some will be better than others. Boot into safe mode and see if you still have the same problem. That should bypass and drivers that might be messing things up.

If they burn and verify ok on the PC, the playback device probably just has an issue reading the discs you're using. Your drive only appears to support burning them at 2 speeds but I guess you could try the slower of the two to see if it makes a difference. Try cleaning the drive in the playback device and try some different discs (even though TY are probably the best).

Please read the pinned topic about burning dl discs.

Post the actual log please.

Post the log please

So the one that works was on Sony CDs and the ones that don't work are on ritek CDs... Maybe your ps1 doesn't like ritek and can't read them?

Make sure you're burning an image file rather than burning on the fly and then try a standalone verify if you get miscompare errors. Check and see if they're in the same place. It looks like the drive misread a block of data from the disc, or something else messed things up and that data never reached ImgBurn's buffer. Cleaning the drive with a cleaning disc may help if you say it's only verbatim discs that are giving you trouble.

Try another image you know has worked in the past and see if you get the same problem. Have you used those exact Ritek discs before?

There's no real solution to that. Try another USB port, another able etc. The very short timeout may have always been in play but only now is it getting stuck doing something and it actually causing a problem. Does the drive have the same problem if you slow the write speed down or try and burn different discs?