DVD Burner has me stumped

Originally Posted by iceebear19727

My DVD burner is a Samsung TSSTcorp TS-H552B Firmware TS08. I used to burn DVDs on it regularly and never had a single problem. I got busy with other things and decided to take a break. I have now started to burn again but have come back to many problems. I am using the same batch of media that I was before. This drive is set as master and I have a CD burner set as slave.
1. The burn times were horribly slow.
I assumed this had something to do with the buffer levels that jumped erratically while burning. I changed my transfer mode to Ultra DMA 2 and that seemed to solve the problem.
2. Burning started to fail with a report of a "write error"
After Googling, I checked with Nero InfoTool and saw that my System ASPI drivers were not configured or "didn't have a green bar." I downloaded Adaptec ASPI 4.72, and it reported my system ASPI drivers were just dandy. Confused and after some more reading, I just decided to kill them and reinstall the 4.6 versions from ForceASPI. Both programs now reported them working correctly. This solved that problem.
3. Discs burned have a ton of errors towards the end of the disc.
I tried to burn 4200mb files instead of 4464mb files and onto a different brand but still had as many errors. I changed the speed from 8x to 4x but while burning, I got a Write Error again..

I ran out of media so now I am left wondering...anyone have any other ideas?? *sigh* And I'm sorry, but I dont have any of the logs...I didn't think to save them..*stupid moment*

You know, I'm having the exact same problem recently. No idea what's going on at all with my Plextor 716A but it passed the diagnostics test at startup so I'm really at a loss. I don't have anything I need to burn at the moment but I'll trying switching the IDE cable to IDE 2 on the MB. It's most likely set to IDE1 but I'm really out of ideas what's going on, there are times when verification tests actually pass. I'm just glad FFVIIAC was one of those discs and I checked for that .dll and it's nowhere to be found on my system32 folder.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

You should check the event viewer. Control Panel - Administrative Tools - Event Viewer and double click on system. That might help pinpoint where the error is coming from, my OS has been acting weird because of a corrupt page file, no idea how that happened until I received the BSOD. Makes no sense to have the page file enabled if you have 3GB of RAM. Also my stupid Audigy 2 card was causing DCOM errors, but all is well now.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Well any errors of any kind would be the place to start, the problem could be hardware or your OS. If there is at least one error, that should be a flag. Also I would try to burn a DVD with that burner in another PC. Should help you track down the source of your problems.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

I recommend using Verbatim DVD+R 8X media, there have been alot of TY fakes circulating. Buyer beware.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

You might also want to download a little program which'll help ID your media to see if it's of quality or not.

http://dvd.identifier.cdfreaks.com/

Check the database and see where your media lies.

http://www.videohelp.com/dvdmedia

My media code is MCC.....003.

I was speaking idiomatically.