carpman

Well I totally understand you not wanting to get into the whole BIOS thing! The only issue is that with NVIDIA drivers on WinXP "let BIOS select transfer mode" is the default option (at least it was for me). Anyway, thanks for the info. Interesting, and if this happens again, all I have to do is find this thread. C.

Thanks for the info LIGHTNING UK! Just a quick point, if there had been a problem with the SATA connection wouldn't I have had problems watching DVDs and also wouldn't this have led to issues with the DVD drive being recognised etc ... I have a very strong suspicion that this is about the BIOS. Perhaps some BIOS do not reset via the FAQ method. Just to finish with, I tried everything in the FAQ and everything that mmalves suggested, I guess if someone finds themselves in the same position then hopefully they'll find this post and avoid a very frustrating few days. Keep up the excellent work on ImgBurn! Thanks again, C.

PROBLEM SOLVED If anyone else has this exact problem here's the simple steps to take. - Switch off computer. - Unplug the SATA cable from the motherboard. - Boot up computer. - Switch off computer. - Plug the SATA cable back in to the motherboard. - Boot up computer. End. For some reason that was the only way to reset whatever needed to be reset. Thanks again to mmalves. I'd be grateful if one of the experts here could explain what that simple process actually does and whether that can be done another way. Great forum, and thanks for ImgBurn - a fine program. C.

Thanks for all your help and patience so far. I'd be grateful for your opinion on my logic for a moment. The problem occurs regardless of whether I ghost my entire system back. Thus whatever setting is causing it, it's not software/settings/drivers (including operating system) as all of that gets overwritten to what is essentially a clean system (which has always worked with this DVD Writer and ImgBurn) when applying my system wide ghost image. What does that leave, surely either the BIOS or hardware. I've tried another cable and also the DVD seems to be functioning fine, except for ImgBurn's error. Which is a DMA error. Everything else, hardware-wise is working perfectly. So it's got to be a setting in the BIOS. Does that logic make sense to you? Here's my BIOS settings: Nothing in Advanced Chipset, here's a full list of options under integrated peripherals with setting in [square brackets]: The problem is that pretty much all these options are either ENABLE or DISABLE nothing else. The only other thing that looked possible is this setting: Hope that helps. Thanks again, C.

Here are the options in the BIOS (I found nothing like "IDE Compatibility/SATA controller mode"): Standard CMOS Features BIOS Features Advanced BIOS Features Advanced Chipset Features Integrated Peripherals [has something called DMA Assignment, but none of the options that you mentioned) Power Management Setup PnP / PCI Configurations So out of those where do you think the appropriate options would be? Thanks for your help. C.

Thanks for the info, SIW seems pretty useful. I've updated to latest version of ImgBurn, but before going further, everything I've had running has been fine for a long time, so there's nothing wrong with the system, clearly something has occured which has changed some setting. Furthermore I can ghost (Norton Ghost) back my system, which I have done and yet this setting seems to over-ride a complete image restore. Does that suggest that the setting is in the BIOS? Here's what SIW says: Motherboard: BIOS: Hope that helps. C.

Hi all, First post. Here's the error message/log you're probably all too familiar with: ERROR: Logical Unit Communication CRC Error (ULTRA-DMA/32) System: Win XP, SP2 DVD Drive: Samsung SATA SH-S203B SB04 I've followed the FAQ, and uninstalled the relevant controller (though checking the tab there was nothing about PIO, it was set to Serial ATA Generation 1-1.5G and "let BIOS select transfer mode" was ticked. I've also tried this unticked, but same result. I've had this before and with similar messing around with this and that it went away, but this time I can't get Imgburn to get over this error. I've also tried reinstalling Imgburn and that didn't work either. I looked in the BIOS but couldn't find anything with DMA option as per the FAQ. Furthermore, would reinstalling the drive's firmware do anything? Any help much appreciated. I'm out of ideas. C. LOG: