Cynthia

You could also try with a topz (or what they are called in English) + 100% alcohol.

Curious. Could you also post that log from the single layer burn? And also attach the .ibg file from that single layer burn, like this one:

I can only see three reasons for your problem. 1. The burner doesn't like tha mother boards SATA controller. I had this issue and had to get an internal Silicon Image ATA controller card to solve it. 2. The burner is defect. 3. Power supply issue. Do you have any problems burning single layer discs?

The problem is in the Lite-On burners and the only one who can resolve it is Lite-On itself. Today they seems to be more interested in creating and selling faster and faster burners. In stead they should take a moment and try to solve the current issues with their burners. LUK posted in a thread over at CDFreaks that was used to try out new firmware for the Lite-On writers and no reply. http://club.cdfreaks.com/f44/liteon-dh20a3...tml#post2133216 Even the latest models, like iHAS422 suffers from this problem. The only working solution is to avoid Lite-On burners if you plan to use +R media.

Might be worth to try with a cleaning disc if the laser head is dirty.

Hi and welcome to the forum, Edwardjr! I have the same burner + media and no issues here. http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?s=&...ost&p=89442 The only thing I can see is that you are using It might be that 2x speed triggers some generic write approach. Try with 2,4x in the speed drop down box instead. The 6x write speed gave me a little better results than the 2.4x speed. Might also be worth to try with this setting enabled. (Change in the write tab in the settings department)

Could you burn with the same brand (disc id) media before?

No disc in the burner and all other programs closed down Download Binflash Win32 GUI that can be found on this page http://binflash.cdfreaks.com/#download Download Original NEC 3500 Firmware 2.1b http://liggydee.cdfreaks.com/disclaimer/en...b_orig.zip.html Start NECWinFlash.exe Press the 'Dump' button to get a backup of your currently installed firmware and save it on the hard disk (not needed but can be nice to have just in case it goes banana) Press the 'Flash' button and load the 21b_orig.bin file If the flash went ok - restart the computer

There might be a later firmware for that Dell burner. http://www.firmwarehq.com/download_1157-fi...120512.EXE.html You now have 5D24 This one is DD26

There are no write speeds after the Disc ID so it looks as the media you are using now is not even supported in the current firmware. Try to flash the burner with Binflash + the original bin firmware file that can be found here. http://liggydee.cdfreaks.com/page/en/NEC-ND-3500A/

If you have an USB connector in that lap top you should be able to put a nice burner in an USB cabinet. The burners they put in laptops seems to be less well performing as 'regular' non slim type burners. You can find that and other guides in the ImgBurn guides forum. http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showforum=4

Hi and welcome to the forum, pwnon! What type of disc have you inserted? It looks as your burner can't identify that media. Is it a Dell computer?

There was the same question regarding the PMA issue and Lite-On burners some months ago. I had an image that always got a failure in ImgBurn and Nero 8 but if I burned it in CDBurnerXP and some other programs - no error. http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=7860 To rule out that your other programs doesn't report the error back as it should, you could try with the other burning program that seems to work as it should (at least with the PMA issue) - Nero. Install the demo version and try to burn your image in that program and see if you get the error in that one. What does that setting mean? I'll try to research it...I just didn't know if this was an obvious setting that I missed or something. Also, if my drive truly is going bad, will this setting only mask the real issue by forcing ImgBurn to burn the data anyway? It doesn't work with all burners - that's why it's not set on default - but I have it enabled and IMO it gives you a little bit better burning result when you scan the burned disc.

Might be that another program is locking the burner. Can you post the stuff you see in the log window when you try to burn that folder?

Start a new thread and post a burning log from one of those burns. Log: Main Menu -> Help -> ImgBurn Logs

Hi and welcome to the forum, Malice_Unarmed! In the settings you can disable the option 'Cycle Tray Before Verify'. Curios. What model of burner is it that you have?

Select Hardware -> Motherboard Post the info you see in the right side, like this:

Even if it's in the early stage of the disc, the speed sounds very low. See if DMA is still enabled. Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition seems to have a bad habit of falling into PIO mode compared to XP/Vista. http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?s=&...dpost&p=967

There is a later firmware for that burner. http://www.firmwarehq.com/Lite-On/SHW-160P6S/files.html Edit: I'm not only slow upstairs - now also in the fingers.

Can you post that failed burning log? Did you find anything in the program about what locked it?

Do you start a new ImgBurn or are you just running one instance of the program? My disc is not ejected until I press the OK button that shows up after the burn, but your's? Or are you manually pressing the eject button on the tray?

Based on the log, your burner is burning the disc so bad that it can't even be read during the verify stage. If you scan the disc with either Nero DiscSpeed or DVDInfoPro I think you will see very bad results even on the parts it could read. Time to get a new shiny burner.

Hi and welcome to the forum, PaperKut! There should be a new firmware HX12 if your computer is a ThinkPad R400, R500, T400, T500, W500 and X200. http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/MIGR-70448.html Do you know if this computer has nvidia chipset?

It even exceeds the space on a 99 minutes/900 MB CD disc.

Might help if you start Windows in Safe mode and then delete the string in the Windows registry. If that doesn't help - I would uninstall the burner in Windows and then restart the computer to see if it goes away that way.