dvdchallenged

May 4, 2006

Your HP firmware dates back to 22/10/2004.

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/generic...item=pv-25114-1

You'd probably benefit from updating it with the much newer 'real' liteon firmware, dated 22/03/2006

http://www.liteonit.com/DOWNLOADS/ODD/SOHW...are/DR8VS0M.zip

You may however need to perform a degree of 'crossflashing' to update it. The people over at cdfreaks will help you with that. Just look in their LiteOn forum.

THANKS.....

I already tried that, and I get the following error msg, which doesn't make sense to me:

No Match Drive Detected !

This utility is only for LITE-ON DVDRW SOHW-832S drive.

Drive Detected:

3-0-0-0-0 E:LITE-ON DVDRW SOHW-832S VDPE

is this where the "crossflashing" you were referring to comes in? :unsure: ??? I'll go poke around on that forum.....

May 4, 2006

After reading that Verbatim was one brand with less problems than others, I purchased a 10 pack of these, "Verbatim DVD-R with VideoGard Protection" but cannot get a clean burn. I am able to burn on Fujifilm +RW though. It would be nice if there's a setting I can change in order to use all these Verbatim DVDs though..... here is the log:

I 20:35:03 ImgBurn Version 1.3.0.0 started!

I 20:35:03 Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition (5.1, Build 2600 : Service Pack 2)

I 20:35:03 Initialising SPTI...

I 20:35:03 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices...

I 20:35:03 Found 1 DVD-ROM and 1 DVD?RW!

I 20:38:05 Operation Started!

I 20:38:05 Source File: C:\Documents and Settings\HP_Owner\My Documents\My Pictures\claudia slideshow\Julie Birthday Show 0503 Final.iso

I 20:38:05 Source File Sectors: 968,876 (MODE1/2048)

I 20:38:05 Source File Size: 1,984,258,048 bytes

I 20:38:05 Source File Volume Identifier: PROSHOW_DVD

I 20:38:05 Source File Application Identifier: PHOTODEX PROSHOW DVD

I 20:38:05 Source File Implementation Identifier: Photodex Proshow DVD

I 20:38:05 Source File UDF Revision: 1.02

I 20:38:05 Destination Device: [3:0:0] LITE-ON DVDRW SOHW-832S VPDE (E:) (ATA)

I 20:38:05 Destination Media Type: DVD-R (Disc ID: MCC 02RG20) (Speeds: 2x, 4x, 6x, 8x)

I 20:38:05 Destination Media Sectors: 2,298,496

I 20:38:05 Write Mode: DVD

I 20:38:05 Write Type: DAO

I 20:38:05 Write Speed: 4x

I 20:38:05 Link Size: Auto

I 20:38:05 Test Mode: No

I 20:38:05 BURN-Proof: Enabled

I 20:38:05 Filling Buffer...

I 20:38:06 Writing LeadIn...

I 20:38:45 Writing Image...

W 20:42:11 Failed to Write Sectors 5568 - 5599 - Cannot Write Medium - Incompatible Format

W 20:42:11 Retrying (1 of 10)...