Not being a techie, it is possible by the way that DVDShrink analyzes and encodes a disc, for a drive to suffer premature failure? I have been using my DVD-ROM drive for this and a Pioneer A06 for burning. Yesterday the DVD-ROM (Samsung that Dell supplied with computer)started acting up. It would read a DVD (burned or original) but during the playing process would speed up/slow down with distorted sound. I have checked that it is not a software fault by running the DVD in the burner and it plays normally. I have not changed any preferences/settings in the past two weeks since I started burning and it has worked fine until yesterday. I'll be calling Dell tonight to see if they can fathom it out. Any thoughts?
Nice thought, but I had no problems before and it is the same with all DVD's original or copied. Thankfully its still under warranty (although a new drive is only $30-40
It sounds like Your drive's suffering from internal failure! It could be just an accumulation of dust affecting the disc drive mechanism. I'm surprised that you didn't get a read error of some sort. ROMs are cheap though so why not replace it? I have an A-06 with a Sony CRX300A DVD ROM. Good luck, Frank
Well, Called Dell and they had me do a system recovery to a week previous. It worked! Probably crappy XP doing something to conflict with drivers or something. Phew!
Hi Craic, That is good news! Nice of you to post again and let us know how you resolved your problem. Happy burning Frank
