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Are you fancy making an experiment? Move your drive to your friends computer and repeat the burn in the same conditions (your burner, your media, his computer).

Try with the latest firmware http://www.firmwarehq.com/Pioneer/DVR-109/files.html

Verbatim and Taiyo Yuden the are two top media producers known for constant quality, other producers are subject to change in quality due to the factory process and the dye/MID they use. As you observe, it is common and no surprise at all, at least for us. It is a surprise to novices, who can't believe how they don't work if it worked in past

Can you give us the new log, please?

That is not a certain thing that will fix your problem. It's the last attempt to know if your drive is still alive. If a drive can't burn correctly a Verbatim, it is considered dead (junk) and needs replacement.

Based on the name of the drive it leads to this http://www.iomagic.com/Firmware/FirmwareDownload.html You can try to update the firmware "DD0203-230-win.zip" it's the last from the second table. What you also can do is try to find 2x-4x rated media, maybe it will do a better job on that. A lens cleaning disc may also help. I certainly recommend a new burner though.

When time comes and you lose some discs because your burner can't burn them properly you draw a line and put in balance. A drive + external enclosure is about as same price as 2x25 Verbatim DVD+DL 8x (depends on where you buy them). Let's say: 1 pack = burner and 1 pack = enclosure. Are you going to lose more discs or get a proper drive? The ball is on your side of field.

Try the new A104 firmware http://www.firmwarehq.com/LG/GSA-T11N/files.html to see if you get higher speeds. Try some decent Verbatim/Taiyo Yuden media.

Are you sure that you allways used the 8x media and not the 2.4x MKM-001-00 ? Your drive is old and claims it can write that media only at 2.4x, even if the media is 8x rated. Try to find 2.4x media MKM-001-00. No offence but do a research and you will find that the quality of your burner is written in his name. MatSHITa. Laptop burners are rubbish in general. Get yourself a normal size one (not slim) in an external enclosure.

Verbatim and Taiyo Yuden are always the recommended media, but not always that recommandation is followed by users, from various reasons. Those media are recommended by their constant quality!

Sounds like your drive is going down. If it still produce good job on Verbatim, you better stick to Verbatim. If you don't want Verbatim, buy a new drive that burn those Maxell disc correctly.

Try again after installing the new firmware TN03 http://www.firmwarehq.com/LG/GH22NS50/files.html Try with all supported speeds, your drive may produce a better job at higher speeds rather than force it to slow down. A slow speed is fairytale these days.

Read and follow this http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=8000

I think you answered yourself... Just compare the speeds supported on MAXELL media with speeds supported on Verbatim media and you'll know it is a drive/firmware/media combination issue. ImgBurn don't care about the disc, it repports what the drive can do with that disc and all it does is sending data to drive the rest is up to drive if it can correctly write that disc. The update to current version of ImgBurn is reccomended cause we can't/won't support all the released versions, just the latest, and are countless bug fixes and improvements in every version released.

Maybe you can find 2.4x rated media MKM-001-00 since MKM-003-00 is 8x rated media and your drive only shows 2.4x, 4x as supported speeds.

Update ImgBurn to current version. See my signature. Use disc from another spindle or better, use some different media, Verbatim and Taiyo Yuden are recommended, to rule out the bad media Provide a full log with burn and verify.

Try all supported speeds. Try Verbatim DVD+R DL media, they are the best. A lens cleaning disc might help too. If all fails, get a new drive.

Your drive is ancient and don't recognize correctly the new media. A lens cleaning disc might help but your best deal is to buy a modern drive, they are realy cheap these days.

From now on you can do pretty much everything. Please use decent language and don't spamm. PS: Welcome and enjoy!

It is perfectly normal to have some doors shut to new members in order to avoid a lot of things like hijacking others threads or spamming. If you have problems, start your own topic, describe in detail and someone will help. You are able to reply to your own posts. In the meantime you can read FAQ and Guides After some time here on the forum you can help others if you want, for the first is supposed that you are a newbie and have limited access. If you have no problem, make a thread in Chat to hello the forum people and maybe you share your experience with ImgBurn and how you find about it.

To create an Audio CD from your mp3's to play in a car stereo use this Guide http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=5555

The drive isn't recognizing the media, it should show DVD+R (Disc ID:"something") (Speeds:2.4x) If it is in a Dell computer try this firmware update http://www.firmwarehq.com/LG/GSA-H73N/files.html

Post a log. Read the pink bit above.

From the log that you provide, all that you did was updating ImgBurn. Please do as advised if you realy seek for help.

Try this new TN03 firmware for your drive http://www.firmwarehq.com/LG/GH22NS50/files.html Cleaning the drive with a lens cleaning disc might help.