funny acting burner

my cd burner is acting funny when i burn a disk it leaves a ring on the bottem of it about a inch from the
center of the disk as if the laser is sticking in that spot and not moving outward i tried using nero 6.6.0.6
and xp's software they do the same. When i use record now it gives me am error message of "no copatible recordable or rewritable
device could be found on your system would you like to check for updates" when i check for updates none found
i tried updating my drivers uninstalling and reinstalling my drivers and doing the same with my software i upgraded my firmware and bios i also
tried using two types of media hp and sony both did the same. Like one out of ten disks burn properly
when i burn an audio disk the first three songs will play and show the rest of the tracks but they dont play
when i burn a data disk and put it in my computer it says the correct size of the files shows me all the files
i just cant open them. any help would be great. thanks

 

Your burner might be on its way out. Do you have another burner that you can try?

 

no other burner i orderd an external benq 16x deul layer hope this does the trick.

 

Let us know if the new one solves the problem.

 

sure will it will be in monday

 

just the internal for my presario notebook i also have a i/o magic external 8x dvr/rw hate it will never buy i/o again i upgraded firmware for both

 

i am going to reinstall my os last resort but i am going to upgrade to xp pro meida center hope this works if not then i am sure it is a hardware issue

 

well i backed up my software formated my hd and reinstalled my os and it fixed my problem hope i does not do it again