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Do your editing in the GUI, then save the project file. You don't write them by hand.

I honestly have no idea. The best thing you could do right now is treat yourself to a new (

It should be fine. Why aren't you burning it to a normal DVD-R or DVD+R disc? It's not big enough to require a DL one.

I don't think it's related to the drive at all. Drives follow the MMC specs so they *should* all behave in the same way. Yours is new so it definitely shouldn't have any of the problems that I might associate with drives that came out when the MMC specs were still in their infancy. Can you confirm that when you tried it on the ICH9 controller (whereby it didn't hang but you got a 'No Seek Complete' during the burn - right?), you were indeed running the v8.5.0.1032 Intel Matrix software/driver available from here: http://downloadcenter.intel.com/filter_res...mp;submit=Go%21 That marvell controller seems to be a pain to find a driver for! MSI don't seem to list any for it on any of their pages... weird! Could you please get a screenshot of what the controller is displayed as when looking in device manager? It'll either be in the ide/atapi controller branch or the scsi/raid one. Once you've done that, bring up the properties for it and get a screenshot of the 'Driver' tab. Then I just need one more from the 'Details' tab when 'Device Instance ID' is selected in the drop down box. That should be 3 screenshots in total. Thank you!

When your drive/drivers stop responding to commands you pretty much have to give up and cycle the power. It would appear that's just how I/O works in Windows. It's not ImgBurn that's hanging, it's something further down the chain. ImgBurn is just waiting patiently for a reply and isn't really in control at this point, hence why you can't close it. What do you have in your filter drivers list? (Look in the Tools menu within ImgBurn) Is your drive on a decent controller that supports optical drives properly? Do your controller drivers support optical drives properly? Are they up-to-date?

So you're saying that with 'Finalise Disc - Auto Retry' unchecked and 'Ignore Finalise Disc Errors' checked, the resulting disc still doesn't work?

There's an option to force a command to be sent prior to burning that invokes OPC. Even if it's off there's still a chance the drive will do it anyway and that's something the firmware has told it to do (i.e. nothing to do with ImgBurn) and cannot be avoided.

tsk tsk sticking with versions of a program that have known bugs because of that stupid old 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it' saying... what is the world coming to?!

You're building/burning to disc on-the-fly. (i.e. 'Output' is set to 'Device' rather than 'Image File') Build mode can do that OR it can build an ISO (which you'd then need to burn to disc in Write mode).

Nope, I've burnt APE files just fine. For whatever reason, the standard 'CreateFile' API command is failing on your PC when ImgBurn tries to use it to open that file. That is kinda interesting though because you said you made the CUE file yourself in ImgBurn yeah? What does the 'Create CD CUE File' window look like once you've added your files to it? Can you provide a screenshot? I'd be interested to see what the 'unlocker' program says is using the file - if anything. Please do give it a try, you can always uninstall it straight after.

That's the important one, ignore the others. btw, ImgBurn booktypes to DVD-ROM automatically on supported drives (which yours is - or rather 'can be' once you've configure it in the 'Advanced' section of the booktype window), so you don't need to do anything.

I guess if Roxio issued that exact command then it would also hang. Obviously it's not a command that *should* get stuck (or ImgBurn wouldn't work for anyone!) so it must be down to your drivers somewhere along the line. Optical drives do not like being on RAID controllers. Is yours actually running in RAID mode or is configured as AHCI in the BIOS? Even something as simple as updating to the latest Intel Matrix drivers could fix this... but really you want the drive off the RAID controller. As a side note, drives are fine when the ICH9

If that's the first one you've had fail, just ignore it. The drive is in complete control and so if it says it can't burn to the media, it can't burn to the media. If it starts happening with all the discs (are they made in Singapore?), you could try a new spindle and hope that they're better (get the made in Singapore ones - but still using MKM-001-00 dye!) or perhaps consider getting a proper 'full size' burner. Laptop drives are always pretty rubbish.

No, you're still at a dead end because you can't stop ImgBurn from finalising discs Turn off the finalise disc auto retries and it should be ok in your player though.

Ahh, deepburner doesn't actually finalise the disc at all, it leaves it open so you can add more to it. The drives only mess up when you finalise the disc. The 'working' retry thing is bogus and I very much doubt the drive actually does anything as a result of me repeating the command. Once the initial attempt has failed, the drive has already screwed the disc up and that's why it doesn't play nicely in all players.

You too MrWizard? Read the 'Pinned' topic at the top of this forum.

Care to provide details about the ISO you burnt that DID work? Can you copy + paste everything from the log when you burnt that file please? Have you tried building a new disc/image based on content of the disc that does work and then seeing if that works / doesn't work?

No, the drive controls burn quality itself. Are you using Verbatim MKM-001-00 media as I suggested in an earlier post? That's probably the most important piece of advice I can give you.

Good call, I was just about to suggest the same thing

Why don't you update your PS3 firmware? I thought it was on 2.43 now or something.

First I check that I don't still have a copy of ImgBurn (or any other burning tool I happen to be testing with) open, then I check there's no disc in the drive, then I run the flash program. I've never shut down my AV or closed 'normal' programs like Internet Explorer etc.

Right so it's definitely NVIDIA then! Do you happen to know which motherboard you have at all? Or rather, which NVIDIA chipset it uses? I really can't believe that NVIDIA release drivers that are sooooo bad, they totally screw with the sense data from drives - how do they expect programs to work properly if the info isn't accurate?!

You want Taiyo Yuden CD's and Taiyo Yuden/Verbatim DVDs. If your discs won't read then they're either dirty/scratched or they're protected. Clean them and if they still don't work, give up because ImgBurn won't get around any protection on the disc.

Yeah your drivers are messing stuff up. All of the 'SENSE' stuff is complete rubbish. Bring up Device Manager, expand the IDE Controller and SCSI / RAID Controller branches and tell me (or show me via a screenshot) exactly what you see. Device manager can be found by right clicking 'My Computer' -> 'Properties' -> 'Hardware' tab -> 'Device Manager'.