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Because you're new. That's just the way things work around here I'm afraid.

Can you get your PC to boot and other discs? Try an ISO that's already known to be bootable (like a Ubuntu Live CD or Memtest86+). If you can't get that to boot either, it must be something you're doing wrong in/with the BIOS.

What speed are you burning those discs at? Update the firmware on the drive - http://www.firmwarehq.com/Samsung/SH-S223L/files.html Don't burn at 'max' speed, try 8x - 16x instead. Verify your burns.

Post the log please.

Then I can only assume there's something not quite right about your disc. How did you get the source files you used to build it in the first place? You'd normally always have a working original disc or an ISO you just burn 'as-is' with these things. Sometimes the downloads from Microsoft are the raw files zipped up... but then you wouldn't have the 'Boot' folder (which you'd need). Your previous DVD won't do anything without you telling it to.

Your system/drive is having trouble processing the last command listed in the log. See if you can find an updated SIS controller driver for your motherboard.

A workaround for now would be to enable the 'Reading - Always Use Buffered I/O' option in the Settings (I/O tab).

Nu-tech drives are all but dead. They're not even worth mentioning these days - I've obviously forgotten about them and any extra warning messages I was made to add in when I implemented their code! No, the drive will just report an error.

It doesn't, no. A generic google search for maximum eeprom write cycles suggest most can handle 100,000+. I'm not sure a warning is really required when you're talking about those kinds of figures.

That's your graphics card bios string. The G41M-P28 seems to use Ami Bios. Try reading this - http://forums.techarena.in/guides-tutorials/1066408.htm It's something I found after simply Googling 'ami bios change boot order'.

Like I said in post #5, you're looking for something related to boot order / priority. You'd normally have options to set the order of booting from various devices such as floppy drives, optical drives, hard disk, network, USB etc. Knowning which brand of bios (cmos) you have would help.

The BIOS isn't going to list an operating system... are you sure you were in the right place?!

You're asking questions you could easily find answers to yourself via a quick Google search. You normally get into the motherboard bios by pressing F2 or Del when the machine reboots/is turned on. F12 will bring up a boot menu on some motherboards. Once you're in the bios, look for boot order/priority and make sure cd/dvd is *before* hdd if you want the machine to attempt to boot from a cd/dvd rather than the hdd (where it would then load Windows).

There are 4 (or 5) tabs visible on the main window when you're in Build mode. One of them is 'Options'.

No, it's a disc burner. It's not a BD shrinking/reauthoring tool.

Yes, you need the complete set of DVD Video files - that includes the VIDEO_TS.IFO / BUP files. Your authoring program creates them, it's not something ImgBurn does.

The Autoplay configuration opions can also be found in Control Panel.

Maybe you enabled 'Preserve Full Pathnames' on the 'Options' tab? It's off by default so it's something you'd have done manually.

A bump...seriously? Some people do sleep you know. Did you select to boot from the cd/dvd drive when the machine booted up? You could either do that via the bios or maybe some one time boot menu.

Was it a one off failure? Ignore it.

Use advanced input mode, that's what it's there for.

It didn't do that, it's impossible. All ImgBurn does is issue a command to get the discs copy protection system type and warn the user if it's CSS protected. Nothing more, nothing less. I'm sorry but your problem lies elsewhere. What happens if you insert a disc and try to read it in ImgBurn? (Click the 'Create Image File From Disc' button) Does the program report 'Ready' in the status bar at the bottom of the main window or does it say some other message?

They shouldn't be selling it at all.

'CD Control Error' isn't one that pops up very often but the actual error numbers (ASC 0x73, ASCQ 0x00) are very similar to loads of other 'power calibration' related errors (all ASC 0x73 but with ASCQ values of 0x01 to 0x17). Power calibration errors are typically a sign of a bad drive/firmware/media combo (or a dirty / dying drive). It's not about burning at slower speeds, some just work better than others - they could be faster or slower. You only had a choice of 2 and so could only go slower.

It's greyed out because it doesn't apply. If you want to verify a read operation you have to do it manually - as you have been doing.