chewy

this part seems to show the obvious impact of how each firmware overspeeds or not, notice the benq!

Benq's are notoriously picky about media and cmc mag's are very inconsistent within spindles? Interesting results from overspeeding at max in the 8x medias, just hope the benq holds up till the new ones arrive, what a task! It's having to burn it's share and scan?

another advantage of the 1640 is it can be crossflashed now

http://www.komplett.co.uk/k/kl.asp?bn=10034 do they ship to the usa?

agreed, but as the original poster said "I will be replacing one of my drives and I am thinking about purchasing the BenQ DW 1640." the 1650 won't be crossflashed to the 1655, because of ram liscensing fees and who knows what quickee's up to.

Why let a little thing like retail/oem stop you, B/G firmware? http://club.cdfreaks.com/showthread.php?t=...ssflashing+1640 http://club.cdfreaks.com/showthread.php?t=...ssflashing+1640 everybody should try at least one! there's a lot more 1640's out there than you know

ImgBurn setup ~800KB, mem in use during burn 30 megs. The numbers speak for themselves.

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all disks are visually perfect except for an obvious lighter cheaper dye on some, found some good R04 and ricohjpn, 1-2 yrs old scanning mid 90's finally settled on a quick and dirty method of identifying problem disks, mid codes good don't keep testing, if it's ritek G05's, don't bother testing, stick disk in LG to save. Prodisks test(they ranged from best to worst) same with princo and cmc mag. Unfortunately dvdinfopro doesn't have a quick scan feature, this is good enought to identify bad disks in a matter of seconds not minutes. I am suspecting a Plex 708 as part of my problems. during the period of using the memorex brands I was burning on a pioneer 105 and the plex. Most of my bad disks including a few verbatims were +R format, I can remember upgrading the plex's firmware a lot.

same here

Blu's always telling how good the Ritek R03's are, when I was redoing memorex disks, some took 30 minutes to just rip with shrink and my best reader(LG 4163B), on another machine my NEC 3520 did one in 6 minutes, the disk was burned nov 4, 2003 on a plex 708. I scanned the disk, it scored 95, a 2yr old memorex, R03!

ran accross this link, look at what the plex tools professional are reporting and the scanner drive, very interesting http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/Reviews/Sp...=15879&PageId=9

thanks, I understood most of that, I will still continue to encourage upgrading but look elsewhere for burning problems when analyzing logs from older burn engines. chewy's crash course in imgburn support! Getting too old for this. what got this all started was my inability to read dvdd and imgburn logs, and for that I apologize

bashful didn't tell me that(4x), hmmmmmmmmm, of course if his burners weren't standalone masters notice the 3540 did a better job with these quality dvd-r's than the 3550, however with dvd+r's the 3550 does the best job, in my benq 1620's opinion.

For troubleshooting are there any dvd burners not supported by earlier burn engines but supported in the new version? Or is like the old clonecd, works on all new drives?

make sure you use 2 iso's on different hard drives, tiling the windows was the most difficult part, I got the 2 bottom screens mixed up!

http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hostsfaq.htm way over my head, i have heard of making the cookie folder read only?

haven't used memorex in over a year, actually some of the cmc mags are scanning >0, the pro disk and ritek G05's are really crap, I found an old princo that scanned 95, if it wasn't for my LG 4163B, I would have lost a lot of cough, data, cough! Since I have about 200 of these older data disks, lot of repairs. The MIJ's or verbs I don't bother checking.

do you use the "hosts" file trick?

those old memorex disks are scanning horribly, in an effort to save the data I have only one drive that seems to read slow enough, the other shares a cable with it. Has anyone here ever fooled with the set read speed options and enabled set hardware error retries? that program doesn't like old memorex disks!

burn strats should be the same, watch out for variance in media before jumping to conclusions, the other factor to consider is a burner learning curve relating to power calibration. Modded firmware with NEC gives you bitsetting, all in all one of the most useful features you could ever ask for! the region free might be useful to people in other parts of the world besides HOLLYWOOD!

I almost jumped in on the backdoor line, but at 57 thought better of it!

no dual support for simultaneous burns?

using my LG 4163B and new 1.06 firmware(improved dvd-r write strategies) 4400MB burned @16x TYG03 5:19 QS 97 cdspeed, will rescan with dvdinfopro(probably a 95)

1655 = 1650 + lightscribe