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I uninstalled and successfully updated my driver to 2.1A! My first burn of a movie I have had 5 unsuccessful and 1 successful burn with went great! I quickly chose a nearly one hour movie and got another error message at the end of the burn (during the verification). When I played the dvd-r in my standalone dvd player Philips 3040, it had many errors the last 15 min, the title flicked once about 20 seconds in. The errors towards the end were major pixel disturbance and audio disturbance, stop during playback for 15 seconds and continue playback. Once or twice the dvd stopped. It is only in the verification stage I get an error message. My system hardware and or software seems very fragile and my workflow is in many steps, but I dont get any sign that my something has gone wrong in an earlier stage from the other software logs. I tried a new burn with a 40 min movie that had been encoded and treated exactly the same way and this burn was successful. Should I leave it for a repairman or shall I try another update to 2.1B? Or is it a hardware problem somewhere.. Uninstall Intel Ultra Storage Driver will not harm my programs and files and harddrives? Can I install the Intel driver afterwards or dont I need it at all? Jan I have now decided to buy another burner to burn my verbatim dvd-rs, the pioneer dvdr 111. If that will not work I will have my computer repaired..

I searched and found Intel Ultra ATA Storage driver. I could not search and find incd. I right clicked the dvd drive, choose properties but could not find enable cd recording. I have recorded lots of music using this drive without any problems.

No disc in drive and its closed. What shall I do? change which cable before getting it repared? Or shall I buy a new one? can I get a hint in DOS what might be wrong?

I used the binflash and opened the original 2.1A update but got "error sending to drive", and then "error flashing firmware". Everything got stuck so I had to restart my computer. This must be a hardware problem, dont you think so? I have 3 cables connected to the dvd drive. The big flat one in the middle is connected to secondary IDE on the motherboard.

I still get unsuccessful burns with Imgburn. After changing to the correct region I got one successful burn on a verbatim dvd-r. I can still, but it takes some hesitation and time from my nec 3500 ag burner, burn verbatim dvd-rws. I contacted the support in norway who also recommended new firmware with the explanation that my present firmware cant handle newer media: >Please download newest firmware from: http://liggydee.cdfreaks.com/page/en/NEC-ND-3500A/. Please choose original firmware v. 2.1a. I have so far tried to flash 2.18 and 2.1B but got flashing error. When I go to this page they say I need to download a flashing program at: http://liggydee.cdfreaks.com/page/how2flash/ The lack of having a flashing software might have caused the flashing error before. I am a little confused as to which program I shall download for this: the commandline Binflash, the Gui Binflash, or the TDB DOS flasher? I use windows 2000 prof without service packs.

Thank you. I downloaded the file but got flashing error again. The reason that I dont use service packs is that they are not compatible with hotfix 2000, an important hotfix without which I can not import from my camcorder into my editing program avid xpress dv 2.

The changed region setting solved my initial burn verbatim dvd-r problem, so I am happy right now! I can not download from that page since the files are not shown. It probably has to do with that I have to use win 2000 prof without servicepacks. However, does firmware update give better burns, or is there another reason to why I should pursue with updates?

The link 2.18 goes nowhere. any other link to 2.18?

IT WAS REGION 1! I picked Sweden and choose new region. I got flashing error again.

Ok I will try it. While I was waiting I tried a new burn with the updated Imgburn 2.3.2 and got error at once. The box with the error message: I/O Error! Device: (1:0:0)_NEC DVD_RW ND-3500AG 2.16 (E:) (ATA) ScsiStatus: 0x02 Interpretation: Check Condition CDB: 2A 00 00 00 36 80 00 00 10 00 Interpretation: Write (10) - Sectors: 13952 -13967 Sense Area: 70 00 03 00................ Interpretation: No Seek Complete Imgburn log: I 15:50:16 ImgBurn Version 2.3.2.0 started! I 15:50:16 Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional (5.0, Build 2195) I 15:50:16 Total Physical Memory: 261?596 KB - Available: 134?056 KB I 15:50:16 Initialising SPTI... I 15:50:16 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices... I 15:50:16 Found 1 DVD?RW! I 15:51:03 Operation Started! I 15:51:03 Building Image Tree... I 15:51:03 Checking Directory Depth... I 15:51:03 Calculating Totals... I 15:51:03 Preparing Image... I 15:51:03 Checking Path Length... I 15:51:03 Image Size: 970?391?552 bytes I 15:51:03 Image Sectors: 473?824 I 15:51:03 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:00:00 I 15:51:14 Operation Started! I 15:51:14 Building Image Tree... I 15:51:14 Checking Directory Depth... I 15:51:14 Calculating Totals... I 15:51:14 Preparing Image... I 15:51:14 Checking Path Length... I 15:51:15 Image Size: 970?391?552 bytes I 15:51:15 Image Sectors: 473?824 I 15:51:16 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:00:01 I 15:51:16 Operation Started! I 15:51:16 Source File: -==/\/[bUILD IMAGE]\/\==- I 15:51:16 Source File Sectors: 473?824 (MODE1/2048) I 15:51:16 Source File Size: 970?391?552 bytes I 15:51:16 Source File Volume Identifier: Akram och Haman I 15:51:16 Source File Application Identifier: IMGBURN V2.3.2.0 - THE ULTIMATE IMAGE BURNER! I 15:51:16 Source File Implementation Identifier: ImgBurn I 15:51:16 Source File File System(s): ISO9660; UDF (1.02) I 15:51:16 Destination Device: [1:0:0] _NEC DVD_RW ND-3500AG 2.16 (E:) (ATA) I 15:51:16 Destination Media Type: DVD-R (Disc ID: MCC 03RG20) (Speeds: 2x; 4x; 6x; 8x; 12x; 16x) I 15:51:16 Destination Media Sectors: 2?297?888 I 15:51:16 Write Mode: DVD I 15:51:16 Write Type: DAO I 15:51:16 Write Speed: MAX I 15:51:16 Link Size: Auto I 15:51:16 Test Mode: No I 15:51:16 BURN-Proof: Enabled I 15:51:17 Filling Buffer... (20 MB) I 15:51:18 Writing LeadIn... I 15:51:50 Writing Image... (LBA: 0 - 473823) W 15:52:43 Failed to Write Sectors 13952 - 13967 - No Seek Complete W 15:52:43 Retrying (1 of 20)... W 15:52:43 Retry Failed - Write Error ... E 15:59:17 Failed to Write Sectors 13952 - 13967 - No Seek Complete I 15:59:17 Synchronising Cache... E 15:59:18 Failed to Write Image! E 15:59:18 Operation Failed! - Duration: 00:08:01 I 15:59:18 Average Write Rate: 62 KB/s (0.0x) - Maximum Write Rate: 2?008 KB/s (1.4x)

Sweden of course so I am in region 2. should I choose another firmware file for download? Yes I need help setting my drives region. (Not that I think it is false since all dvdrw burns have been successful)

My computer is not of a special brand but here is some components: motherboard: asus cusl2-c unex 10/100Mbit, pci sb pci-128, pci, bulk disk station floppy 3.5?? Intel pentium 3 1000/133 samsung hard drive 40 gb (external harddrive 250 gb) graphics card: matrox g450 dualhead 32 mb, agp nec 3500 ag dvd burner microsoft 2000 pro, english version

I tried again. no disk in drive, all programs closed with the same result. My drive is recognized as: (HA:2/ID:0)_NEC DVD_RW ND-3500 AG current version 2.16 update version 2.1B what does set region mean? My firmware filename is (I got it from the address above) 2348_FW_ND-3500A_win21B Shall I try some other firmware to download? Also I dont know if I need som kind of flash program to do this.

I downloaded, extracted, opened .exe and clicked "flash". It says status 0 of 1. Flashing error. A new button came up: power off. Any ideas? Some of my hardware and software is listed above.

you mean my dvd drive?