dpsims Posted January 7, 2009 Share Posted January 7, 2009 Hi, When burning a 3.7 Gb file (tar.gz) to a DVD using version 2.4.2.0 of Img Burn on Win2K with 2Gb of memory and a DVDRW 18X18X12X DVD reader/writer, everything runs normally until 31% of the file is written. At that point, the UI seems to hang and become non-responsive although the DVD burner continues to burn.... The resulting DVD seems to be readable although it is not verified by Img Burn due to the UI hang.... The only way to get the drawer to open is to reboot the computer as any attempt to kill Img Burn results in a 'waiting on thread' message or 'I heard you the first time, be patient'.... Any clues? Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmalves Posted January 7, 2009 Share Posted January 7, 2009 If ImgBurn had hung you wouldn't see those messages. Sounds like Windows' I/O is getting stuck for some reason. Make sure you have the latest drivers available for your chipset and the latest firmware available for your burner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LIGHTNING UK! Posted January 7, 2009 Share Posted January 7, 2009 Exactly which thread did it say it was waiting for? A flashing light on the drive doesn't mean it's burning. If the drive was still accepting I/O then you'd see the ImgBurn GUI updating itself. If a thread won't terminate then it means some API function has got stuck...and that's out of my hands. ImgBurn cannot abort nicely if it's not in control in the first place. As soon as the OS returns control to ImgBurn, it'll process your request to abort/quit. ImgBurn locks the tray so you can't eject the disc. If the drive responds to I/O (which I doubt it does), just load ImgBurn again and hit the eject button. It'll unlock the tray and eject it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dpsims Posted January 10, 2009 Author Share Posted January 10, 2009 Ok... Further to my last post, the UI hangs at exactly the same location everytime I try to brun this file to a DVD.... at around 31% complete.... The disk light continues to blink as does the DVD burner light..... I am using an Aopen DVD burner with the latest firmware and have downloaded and installed the latest chipset support from the motherboard vendor (it has a VIA chipset).... After everything stops blinking, you can try to exit the UI (even using task manager to kill the running process) and it says "Waiting on Device Buffer thread".... The only way to exit the UI is to reboot with the power button (I didn't try killing any processes but they all show 0% cpu utilization).... Seems like something is getting stepped on in memory perhaps? Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hectorct Posted January 12, 2009 Share Posted January 12, 2009 the UI hangs at exactly the same location everytimeThe only way to get the drawer to open is to reboot the computer as any attempt to kill Img Burn results in a 'waiting on thread' message or 'I heard you the first time, be patient'.... I have the same problem, ImgBurn got stucked at 83% three times (I've only used it 5 times, because I don't want to throw away more DVDs) writing diferent ISOs (all above 4 GB). ImgBurn says "writing sectors" but the writing rate is 0. I'm using a Acer Aspire laptop (plugged in) with Vista Home Premium, 3GB of RAM and a "PIONEER DVD-RW DVRTD08RS ATA Device". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spinningwheel Posted January 12, 2009 Share Posted January 12, 2009 hectorct; Start your own thread and please post a copy of your log file so we don't have to play 20 wuestions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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