Shamus_McFartfinger

Go with Blutachs' forth option. Post a log so we can see what's going on.

Hmm... do us a favour and post the entire log of the burn, please. HELP menu > Imgburn logs EDIT: Are you sure Nero Recode picked up all the files it needed? 25 episodes seems alot for a single disk.

Not really. Quality ain't quality. There is no "standard" quality for anything. Example, a DVD player made in Germany or Japan can cost 3 or 4 hundred dollars. It's functional, made well and built to last with multitudes of great options available. A player made in China costs 20 dollars. It's cheap, nasty and could blow up after 2 years. There's no whizzbang functions and it's just a player. Which is the quality product? The answer is both. It just depends on what the consumer is happy with. Off the top of my head? Red hat, Debian (this was hard IMO), SuSe, Lindows, Mandrake/Mandriva, XP Linux, Fedora, Ubuntu, Knoppix, Slackware and probably a few others. I get the bug every now and then and install a linux distro for the hell of it.

LOL!!

There's little doubt that Linux (overall) is a great OS. As previously mentioned, if you want driver support for the latest hardware, you're screwed. The popularity of Windows ensures that you can at least find the driver you need. Having to fuck around with kernels, crappy hardware support and the general "unfriendliness" of many aspects of Linux is what keeps alot of people from using it. Granted that there's thousands of virii all targetting Windows but there's also a shitload of free software available to deal with it and protect against it. It's not that I love Windows (as a die-hard Amiga fan that's impossible) but, as a general rule, Windows does what it's supposed to. It's not a great OS but it's the easiest to use. A quality product isn't determined by how good it is. It's determined by the consumer under the expectation that it'll do what it's supposed to do. Windows might suck in certain aspects but it's made for the greater mass market of users who are essentially computer illiterate. If they plug a camera into it - it'll work....... usually.

Right click on the drive in Windows and select properties and then the autoplay tab.

ImgBurn can't do what you're asking. This should help. http://www.jakeludington.com/ask_jake/2004...vd_to_ntsc.html

Heavy CPU usage is why I asked you to check DMA. The more you tell us, the quicker we can help. We ain't psychic. Bring up your task manager (ctrl+alt+del) then click on the processes tab. Now try and get a directory listing and have a look under CPU to see what programs are using what resources.

Possibly a DMA problem. Have a look at the FAQ and see how you go.

Reading all of them would be a good start as all contain information that will help you. When you have a "specific" question - by all means, ask.

You can buy a CD cleaner from any store that sells hi-fi gear. It's just a disk with little hairs on it that brush against the drives' laser when it's spun. Never used one myself. With hardware as cheap as it is these days, I'd check the ribbon cable and also swap the drive onto another IDE channel to rule out problems with the motherboard. If neither of these worked I'd toss it into the bin.

Horsie to B8. King me.

Try here: http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtop...entry6175

LOL!!! Great to see our taxpayer dollars hard at work.

DVD Decrypter is dead. As noted above, if you need folders copied to your HD then use Explorer or something.

It didn't amount to much, did it? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCkYfYa8ePI

Yep. 2 years and counting. DVD Decrypter died on the 3rd of June, 2005....... around teatime.

G'day. A couple of things. Matshita drives aren't the best. They're cheap and pretty nasty (which is why none of us has one). These disks are the biggest problem though. They're really bad for both reliability and quality. Grab yourself some Taiyo Yuden or Verbatim media and most of your problems should dissapear.

The disks sound pretty dodgy. How about posting whatever part of the log you have saved so we can have a look at the media for you?

G'day. Silly question first - did you reboot the PC after flashing the drive?

http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtop...amp;#entry47349

Seems to have come good for some reason....... sort of. Read/write speed still stucks but the drives are spinning up properly now and there's no stutter/lag when copying files like there was last night. I still don't trust it but it's working for the moment.

Normally it should take around 4 hours to copy 600gigs from a network drive. I dunno how long it actually took because I went to bed.

Dodgy RAID controller mate...... and it's still playing up. Drives won't spin up properly and won't sustain read/write. I think it's fooked.

Good question. Basically, there's 2 reasons. Firstly, I've never been happy with it. The read/write speed has never been as good as it should be. Secondly, the PC I'm having problems with doesn't have any room left in the case for more drives and uses 2 external drives instead. The 2 drives run to a couple of makeshift pci cards with sata connectors at the back and run from there to the sata ports on the m/board. Far from ideal. I really need to spend some money and get some more Coolermaster cases or something. The m/board itself is just about due for an upgrade anyways as it's about 3 years old, I suppose. BTW, the drives function perfectly in another PC. It has to be the m/board.