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    That is so weird ( Burns)

    in Chat

    Posted · Edited by chewy

    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?

    BenQ DW1640

    in Chat

    Posted

    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.

    Burn DATA DVDs or DATA CDs?

    in ImgBurn Suggestions

    Posted

    OMG!

     

    I just registered to this forum because I too wanted to suggest this feature be added to ImgBurn!

     

    LIGHTNING UK! this topic was started 3 months ago..... how come you never reply?

     

    This would be such a great and useful feature for ImgBurn. To be able to burn DATA CDs/DVDs.

     

    ImgBurn setup ~800KB, mem in use during burn 30 megs.

    The numbers speak for themselves.

    library repair

    in Chat

    Posted

    Off topic, but that's never stopped me before. Found a Mad Kats cd buffer in a bargain bin for $4 over the holidays. Works excellent on duffed discs, buffs out the scratches and then re-polishes. Looks like a heavy duty cd walkman w/ buffing/polishing heads(2X) instead of the laser pickup. Fixed a fooked XBox game and a purchased ex-rental, w/ excellent results.

     

    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.

    library repair

    in Chat

    Posted

    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!

    IMGBurn VS DVDD

    in ImgBurn Support

    Posted · Edited by chewy

    All drives tend to follow the MMC specs now so drive support isn't really an issue. It's more a case of testing to find problems in their implementation of certain commands!

     

    It's also things like bitsetting and drive specific features / tweaks that need to be configured. i.e. all the cool stuff BenQ offers.

     

    Obviously newer drives also support new burning features - like layer jump recording etc. These features need testing as from what I've found, no two drives behave in the same way!

     

     

    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

    dual burning

    in ImgBurn General

    Posted

    Decent burn speeds tho ! I think corny did something similar altho he felt that the burn speed seemed to be shared between the two burns as he averaged 4x I think....

     

    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.

    IMGBurn VS DVDD

    in ImgBurn Support

    Posted

    Hard to tell exactly what you were saying in your last post 'bunch of crap', but I (and as LFC said) can assure you that ImgBurn will burn at whatever speed your burner/firmware/media thinks it can handle.

     

    Also, the program will work with any media your drive does. There is certainly no truth in what you said about ImgBurn not supporting some discs that DVD Decrypter did. If the drive can see the media (and initialise it properly), then ImgBurn will be able to see / use it.

     

    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?

    library repair

    in Chat

    Posted

    Chewy ,those old Memorex and the new Memorex discs are still made with CMC MAG dye and its been said here on the IMGburn forum and the other one thats shut down probably 1000's of times dont use discs that are made with CMC MAG dye if you want to be able to read them a few years from now its not reliable . Try reading them in a burner but I suspect that you're screwed sorry about that and I hope its not data or anything you cant replace

     

    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.

    best new anti malware

    in Chat

    Posted

    I'm not nailing anyone!!! I always screw!! =))=))=))=))

     

     

    Anyway, I tried this prog and it found nothing on my system. I ran Spybot, Adaware SE pro and AVG pro a couple of days ago and I was clean then too. So what I want to know is where do you guys go to pick up all this crap on your comps? Me thinks a little porn surfing is going on!! =))=))=))=))

     

    do you use the "hosts" file trick?

    library repair

    in Chat

    Posted · Edited by chewy

    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!

    testing new firmware

    in Chat

    Posted

    As you know I have put Dee's 1X5 FW for the NEC 4550 last night. Will try and burn some more this pm, be interesting to see if it makes any difference to the stock NEC one when its scanned.

     

    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!

    best new anti malware

    in Chat

    Posted

    JT eh.......... might be nice, but from where I live it would be a terrible ssssstttreatcccchhhhhhh......... :lol:

     

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

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