I used to burn all my DVDs using DVD Decrypter without any problems at all on my old PC (ECS mb with an Athlon 64 and 2GB RAM) and Windows XP with SP-3 and a PIONEER DVR-A108 burner.
I recently upgraded to a Gigabyte mb and a Pentium Dual Core E8400 3GHz with 4GB of RAM, and the same PIONEER DVR-A108., using Windows XP SP3
During writing of an ISO file using DVD Decrypter, everything progessed smoothly until about 80% of the process, when the write speed slowly slows down to 0. I waited about 20 minutes then aborted. The funny thing is, my PC just hangs without any error message whatsoever. I can't even eject my disc until a new reboot.
Next I used the latest Image Burn program with Vista Ultimate installed on the same mb. The whole process now locked up at about 40% of completion. And again I have to do a reboot to eject my disc.
Being unsure of the Pioneer burner, I switched back to using WindowsXP, but this time used NERO 8. My file burns flawlessly as before.
What can be wrong? Is it SP3 on the XP (it does slow dowm most programs), The Pioneer DVR-A108 which is getting old, The Vista Ultimate, or the Intel Dual-core. Fyi, I did use DVD shrink first to compress my files to a manageable size. Thanks. ORT
