can someone tell me the life of a dvd burner, i have a nec 3520a and it worked fine until the other day.it will still read everything and write cd, but will not burn dvd's i keep getting an error i have had this thing about one year and have burnted aprox 100 movies now i ger an error everytime i try to burn a dvd however it will burn cd's
Good Question the Nec I had for two years and it went south, the one Benq went south after 6mos. and the 2 Lite ons went south after 6 mos. The Plextor is 2 1/2 yrs &still going and the Benq 1650"s are about 9 mos. and still going strong.So my experience is when they decide to go south they just go. Chris
I've still got my original Benq 1620 after 2 yrs,3500+ backups,and avg 1 coaster every 400+ backups. Still holding strong. 100 backups? That drive shouldn't even be broke in yet. Explain this error: Example-fails during the burn,fails during the leadin phase,fails at end of burn. What's the brand name/format/and speed rate of your blank dvd media? Locate the MID code of those discs using neroinfotool,dvd decrypter,or dvdidentifier. What programs are you using in the dvd backup process? What are you backing up? What's the firmware version of that NEC 5320a drive? Can you post a burn log? Here's the usual culprits: 1)Media quality is the usual suspect.If not using quality media,try some Taiyo yuden,Verbatim,or japanese sony/maxell/fuji. Keep the burn speed at half the rated speed of the blank. 2) Don't burn to the edge-Target of 4360 mbs with quality media,4300 mbs or less with crap media. 3) Firmware: Firmware controls the writing strategy.Drives need updated occasionally to keep up with the newer/faster brands of media that's coming out. If your burner's firmware isn't programed for a certain MID code,it'll kick it out during the lead-in phase. This is often the culprit if you you were burning great,switched batches of media. 4) Dvd-rw drives can get lost from time to time. You may have to go into device manager and uninstall the drivers for the NEC drive. Then reboot.XP will automically hook that drive back up. 5) DMA's can get thrown into PIO Mode for the transfer mode. After 5/6 or so burn errors in a row,windows will revert the transfer mode to PIO mode-for safety purposes. Again,low quality media is the usual culprit. Go into device manager under IDE-ATA/Atapi controllers. Open up each controller for primary and secondary. Make sure the say DMA/UDMA/or any of those 2 with If Available. Make sure they don't say pio mode. If any of them do,unistall the drivers,reboot-1 controller at a time.
thanks for the posts it was the disk, worked on my laptop and on another drive ant that some shit. i even bought another drive sony 820a guess i have 2 now lol.
