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It's a lot easier if you just post the info from the log window, that's what it's there for (please don't close it!).

You should just have 'SONY DVD RW DRU-810A' written in the advanced section, just make sure it's under the BenQ header! Next time you burn, turn on verify. You should also try doing a disc quality / pipo scan on the burnt media in something like DVDInfoPro or CDSpeed.

'TDK' doesn't mean anything, they're not using a 'TDK' dye, they'll be using CMC, RITEK or RICOH... none of which are anywhere near as reliable / good as the Verbatim ones (which use the MKM dye). With 'TDK' you don't actually know what you're getting until you get them home and look at the Media ID (dye). Basically, you're playing Russian Roulette.

Cynthia is correct. I don't recall DVD Decrypter doing a byte level compare so it would never have picked up miscompares, just bad sectors that couldn't physically be read by the drive.

Try using the Silicon Image card and not a VIA one. There aren't many cards that work properly with optical drives and the Silicon Image ones are about the best you'll get - but you need to have flashed them with the 'base' bios.

Is your Sil card running the latest base bios? If not, why? That's the one meant for optical drives, not the RAID bios. I never had any problem with my 216 running on a Sil 3512 (which is basically the same thing). So anyway, you've got drivers issues somewhere along the line, the patin couffin ones are just low level enough to bypass the issue I guess. It's not really a fix though to use them, more just a workaround. The logs you provided just show you burning rubbish media - RITEK-S04-66. Do you have any where you've been burning decent stuff and it's failed?

You can get pen drives for a couple of quid here, I'm sure they're even cheaper in the US. You'll have to google for a bootable disc image that loads cdrom drivers. Use the image as the boot image and add the flasher + firmware to the cd as normal data. Without physically doing it myself and giving you the image, that's about the best advice I can give you.

Indeed it would, 8x or 12x tend to produce the best quality burns.

Do you have a USB pen? Make that bootable and just copy the asus flasher and firmware onto it. They're much better suited to such tasks than optical discs are.

Post the log please, not a screenshot. Please also include filter driver information (look in the Tools menu).

Logically, there are no 'layers'. It's just one huge disc with BD media... even though phyiscally there might be 2, 4, 8 whatever layers.

Copy and paste what you see in the log window please. No it's not DMA related.

http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=8000 This is why I don't bother with 'pinned' topics normally, people just never read them!

It's either the discs you're using or just that your burner doesn't support burning DVD's at all - i.e. it's a CD Writer / DVD Reader. Look in the log window and see what the device scan reports.

That's why I posted it, yes.

layer breaks don't exist on BD media. You burn each layer from start to finish.

http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=8000

Windows just makes up the name it gives to drives, ignore it. You are using UDF 1.02 yeah? XP doesn't understand 2.5 / 2.6 without the use of a 3rd party driver.

That shouldn't make a difference, did the log of the original burn show any 'buffer recovery' related problems?

It wouldn't make them for a single layer discs (unless 'Working' and 'Working properly' are two different things. Without the MDS file daemon tools would mount them as an impossibly large single layer disc.

Maybe you'd have more luck if you used decent discs? i.e. Verbatim DVD+R DL 2.4x made in Singapore. After that, it's probably something with your console - and this isn't the place to be asking for assistance with that.

That's because the tutorial is about 2 years old and nobody ever thinks to update these things.

It contains the layer break information. It's also used when you mount the disc in something like daemon tools. Look in the options if you REALLY can't physically stand to have an additional 2k file on your hdd.

Fill out the information on the 'bootable disc' tab.

If that .dvd file had the LB value in it, you'd have the LB visible in the 'Sectors' line and you don't. Leave the setting on Calculate optimal.