New Pioneer 216D burns with errors

[tinpanalley]

I've been working this on my own for about 1 week. Nothing is helping.

The drive is fine, the cables are fine, the software is fine. My problem must be my drivers or controllers, but I'm guessing.

My media is good. I only burn with Verbatim DVDs and Taiyo Yuden CD-Rs.

 

Please, if anyone can help me, I'd be so appreciative. I'm losing my mind and my hope. Right now I don't have a functioning burner and I just bought this Pioneer.

 

 

Here's my log... and THANK YOU!!

 

 

 

I 20:49:45 ImgBurn Version 2.4.2.0 started!

I 20:49:45 Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition (5.1, Build 2600 : Service Pack 3)

I 20:49:45 Total Physical Memory: 3,013,036 KB - Available: 2,480,072 KB

I 20:49:45 Initialising SPTI...

I 20:49:45 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices...

I 20:50:06 Found 1 DVD

[Cynthia]

Hi and welcome to the forum, tinpanalley!

 

Do you know if your mother board is using Nvida chipset for the SATA channel that is connected to your writer?

[tinpanalley]

Thank you for responding!

I am not sure. How do I verify that?

 

Device Manager shows the following under IDE/ATA ATAPI controllers...

 

NVIDIA nForce Serial ATA Controller

NVIDIA nForce Serial ATA Controller

Primary IDE Channel

Secondary IDE Channel

Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller

 

When I try to disable or uninstall the nvidia, it comes back.

 

Any ideas?

[mmalves]

NVIDIA nForce Serial ATA Controller

Yep, it's a nvidia chipset. Their drivers are buggy and, for the moment, a known workaround is to switch the Interface to ASPI in ImgBurn's settings (I/O tab).

[tinpanalley]

So, should I try that?

 

Is there really nothing else I can do? Someone else suggested that I buy a SATA controller card. I hate having to buy another piece of equipment to make a good burner work.

 

Thanks again!

[tinpanalley]

I changed my IMGBurn I/O settings to ASPI in the write tab.

It worked! Flawless burn!

 

Here's the log, if anyone wants to study it.

 

 

I 01:31:22 ImgBurn Version 2.4.2.0 started!

I 01:31:22 Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition (5.1, Build 2600 : Service Pack 3)

I 01:31:22 Total Physical Memory: 3,013,036 KB - Available: 2,291,856 KB

I 01:31:22 Initialising SPTI...

I 01:31:22 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices...

I 01:31:23 Found 1 DVD

[LIGHTNING UK!]

Only leave it on that until the next release of ImgBurn that has a work around for the nvidia driver bug. SPTI is the better interface to use.

[tinpanalley]

I hate to say it but I may have jumped the gun.

 

The game crashes in the intro even though the burn had no errors in IMGburn. Any thoughts?

- media is good

- image file is good

- burner now working

- 360 plays older burns perfectly

[spinningwheel]

- image file is good

 

Nope.

[LIGHTNING UK!]

Did you verify the burn?

 

Maybe 4x isn't the best speed for burning those discs on your drive? Try one of the other 'supported' speeds.

[tinpanalley]

Hey guys. Thanks again!

 

- Can't verify that specific burn because out of frustration last night I threw it out.

- But just as some of the 'write settings' needed to be adjusted for my burn, Lightning, are there any specific 'read settings' that I should ensure are set?

 

Thanks all, I know I'm almost over this hump where I can finally be burning again on my new computer. Everything was fine for years.

[LIGHTNING UK!]

You just need to check the 'verify' box on the main page when you burn a disc. You should leave it enabled all the time so you know your discs are readable once they've been burnt.

 

Besides the write speed, there's nothing else that you should really need to change.