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Blimey this is getting to be a very common sight with Samsung drives! It would appear the drive is producing bad burns, try cleaning it. You might also like to try some Verbatim DVD+R media instead of the DVD-R ones. Your very best bet though would be to get a decent external drive. Those slimline ones in laptops are never any good.

I honestly don't think you've any need to touch these. The NEC works fine and so in that sense there can't be a problem. I only said to remove the asapi one because the copyright date mentions 2001 - which of course makes it very old - unless they just don't ever update it.

Don't output to an ISO in Shrink, just output the DVD Video files and then use ImgBurn's build mode.

Looks like you're getting duff burns from the drive - hence the reason for the verify stage failing. Try this firmware update. ftp://ftp.aopen.com.tw/pub/firmware/dvd+r...1608arr_111.exe

ASAPIW2K is all I'd get rid of. I'd update the others by updating the relevant programs.

It's normal for 'Device Buffer' to be at 0% during the verify phase - that's because it represents the data from the cd/dvd drive and the other 'buffer' represents the data from the hdd. Obviously the hdd is loads faster than the cd/dvd so you'd expect the 'image buffer' to be full and 'device buffer' to be empty. To see if it's 'going anywhere', just look at all the counters on the screen. They'll be incrementing as it compares data and the 'verify rate' will show you the exact speed. If in doubt, post a screenshot or something so we can see what you think you're seeing. btw, your log just showed us the burning stage - and even that was still in progress!

Well if you follow the curve of the graph, if it's already at 80% cpu usage and it's only burning/reading at 12x, by the time it gets to 16x you'd be past 100% - which of course isn't possible! So I guess the drive wouldn't ever actually reach the full 16x, or at least it wouldn't be able to maintain that speed without the buffers going a bit mad. The drive itself is fine, don't worry about that.

That's not my area I'm afraid. Have you tried Virtual CloneDrive from http://www.elby.ch/ ?

ImgBurn checks for the presence of a 'known' file system and those firmware images don't have one. It's not often you come across an ISO with it's own proprietary format, so it's not something I've really paid much attention to.

1. Update ImgBurn - http://www.imgburn.com/ 2. Update the firmware on your drive. You should be running v1.04 now, not v1.01 - http://support.necam.com/Optical/downloads...CND354_v104.exe 3. Ditch the CMC discs and buy Verbatim DVD+R DL ones instead. Verbatims are by far the best.

Oh, they'll be fine then. It would only be an issue if you had a bin/cue of an audio cd or something (where the 'bin' would then be data from multiple tracks). CUE support has been added for the next version which I hope to release fairly soon.

Well unless you just got a dodgy batch of discs, I don't really see what else it could be. If it can't burn to Verbatim DL discs, there really isn't much hope for it making a decent burn on any of the other brands.

Sorry Paul.S, there's nothing I can tell you that'll get those images working with current versions of ImgBurn. I've made the next version support them though.

If it's a single session / track image (BIN file) it'll burn fine. If not, no it won't. The reason it doesn't make you search for the CUE file is because CUE files are not supported in the version that's currently available. (v2.3.2.0)

I'm sure that drive can't be that old... it's still a current model! Pretty bad if it's died already. Hope the new drive works ok for you.

The error from the BenQ is it's own problem. The error from the NEC was my fault - that's why you should always update the program. Even if you don't actually have an issues with old versions, there WILL be bugs that you're just not seeing and they could be screwing up all of your discs in ways you can't see yet. You only need to look at the extensive changelogs to see all the things that get fixed / improved - and I don't do that for the good of my health

Yup.

Still at 80% CPU when reading at only 12x! I imagine it would die before it reached 16x

Ok well none of the versions currently available can burn a VCD/SVCD - that's the first issue. The second (the error message you're getting) can only be looked into once you include the burn log in your post. Click the 'Help' menu in ImgBurn and you'll see an option to show you the logs.

For someone that's active on the forum I have to ask why on earth are you still on v2.0.0.0 ?! Upgrade and that error will go away.

Your log doesn't show any problems. Get in the habbit of always verifying and then if it fails you'll know about it straight away and we'll be able to help with any issues far easier. As it stands, all we can tell you to do now is update your drives firmware to SB03. http://www.samsungodd.com/eng/Firmware/FWD...ode=&os_no= After that, it's either your source file that's the problem or your xbox.

Software can't get around power calibration errors. Either the drive manages it or it doesn't. It's not something the software has any control over what-so-ever. It's down to the drive/firmware/media combo. If support for the media is flakey, some could work while others don't.

Weird, your disc is showing it has 2 sessions on it. That's not something ImgBurn v2.3.2.0 has done, it doesn't do multisession and will always totally close the disc after burning.

lock volume is described in the FAQ.

The one on the left looks bad because you seem to be using your PC for some heavy duty tasks during the burn - i.e. the CPU usage is very high. Leave the machine alone whilst burning and it'll smooth out. In fact, as the red verify cpu% line goes up as the light blue verify speed line does, I wonder if you've got the drive in the correct DMA mode? Is it on a decent 80 wire cable? It shouldn't be that taxing on the CPU - well, not unless it's a REALLY old machine anyway!