ive had this thing for awhiel now brought it coz i was sick of waiting for my mate to get me the games i wanted and well as soon as i get it he starts getting them for me so ive never realy used it to burn lately i i have been trying to get it to work and it refuses to burn ANYTHING it gets to 1% of a burn and turns into a 4yo not getting a toy he wants ive updated the FW to v1.55 im using nero 6.6.0.8 and decrypter and well im just fustrated i dont know what to do ive read countless forums but there to old and dont answer the same problem any and all help is apreciated.
What speed are you trying to burn at and what type of media are you using? If you are trying to burn at 16x you will need an 80pin IDE cable. Also, if you try to burn too fast there is a chance that you will get a write error or buffer under run. I think for games (ps2 I assume) you have to burn at 1x.
okay thanx for the reply im burning as low as possible which it say 2.4 or 2.2 somthing like that and the disks i have tried are princo tdk sony all 4x but it wont burn at all gets to 1% well now it doesnt even do that and shites itself as for the buffer under-run heck the buffer wont even fill up with its cute lil green bars im goin to swap it with a mates one ( same burner ) its either my burner or my system and for the 80pin ide cable i cant find one anywere as i was goin to buy it just for the hell of it when i heard its better to have one
ppl seems to be confusing others with incorrect naming conventions used for ATA cables. These cables are 80 WIRE not 80 PIN !!! These ATA cables have 40 Pins however each pin has 2 wires connected to it. These wires are very fine. Just ask for an ATA100/133 cable.
HAIL TO YOU finaly IVE SEEN HEAPS OF THOSE AROUND but ive been told no its 80pin i shall get my burner back of my mate and but and 80WIRE cable and see how she feels thank you very much for the help
Thanks for correcting my error on the pin.wire thing. Yeah it is only 40pin but 80 wire. That will most likely not solve your problem, but try it anyways. Something like that used to happen to me when burning SVCDs with nero. It would go to like 1-3% then failed at the lead in (I think that's what it's called). If you are burning with Nero, try burning only with Decrypter. I have the same drive (DVR-109) and I do not have any problems. What are your pc's stats? You should have at least 128Mb Ram and ~800Ghz CPU. You could be having a RAM issue. Try getting rid of some programs in your startup. Only allow what you need to boot up. Download Search & Destroy and run the startup tool. It will tell you what everything that starts up along with a description of what it's for. If you do not feel like doanloading that program, you can still access your system startup. Go to run in your start menu and type msconfig and hit enter. You will want to do a selective startup. Check that box then go to the startup tab and figure out what you do not want to start up. A lot of times people have ad-ware and spyware running in the background and that stuff can kill your resources and severely reduce your odds of a good burn.
my specs are windows xp LOL DUH 4 gig ram 3.8 cpu and yeah the only this i run besides that is kaspersky and agnitum fire wall and ofcourse planetside so my specs are decent and my comps clean
you need to flash it, and use firmeware v1.57. it will right at 12x with most brand, and upto 16x. see this link http://www.speedlabs.org/index.php/topic,83.msg308.html hope this help you
actually, v1.58 is the NEWEST firmware... i have this same drive too. http://forum.rpc1.org/dl_firmware.php?download_id=2017 secondly, tdk and princo are CRAP media, using better quality media will give you better results in your burns, YES, media DOES make a difference~ check my sig. for suggestions on good media...good luck~ wow, this is an OLD thread...wonder if XvodkaX already resolved his issue...well, guess we'll find out~ docTY/ doc Holiday~
Hey folks, I have a black DVR-109 as well, and it just sucks at burning to CD-R media. DVDs are fine, + and - including dual-layer.. but it barely ever completes a CD-R (if it ever has). I agree that media makes a difference but I've wasted a pile of Ritek 48x, arguably the best CD-R media around. I also dug-out some old Maxell 8x and wasted them too. I just upgraded the firmware and the problem persists... maybe there was a bad run of drives. This is my first bad experience with Pioneer burners, however, and is not that big a deal considering I bought the 109 to burn DVD-R/+R & dual layer. But it is annoying sometimes.
I found that this burner is pretty good with cd-r copying, just not as fast as others. Also, do not force it into max speed. I have 52x CD-Rs and the drive will burn them at 32x max. If that is what the drive wants, then let it do that or lower. If you force it to burn at 40x, you may have problems. I have also noticed that it does a better job on CD-Rs that do not have a speed rating. It burns my old Memorex CD-Rs (made by Taiyo Yuden) from 1999 at 40x as well as my older Maxell discs.
Ive got the same problem, ive got 52X CD-R and it only burns them at 32X, but that doesnt worry me that much. I burn PS2 games at 4X and all have worked perfect. I burn movies at 4X without any problems.
I've never tried burning the Ritek 48x discs at anything more than 24x .. and lower than this on the previous BIOS version (am sick of wasting discs so I haven't tried slower on the new BIOS). I even tried the slowest speeds possible before the update, and the drive failed every time on two particular projects I was working on. I guess I have a defective drive. But as I said, it burns DVDs fine so it doesn't bother me much, I have an old DVR-105 in another box and can use that... I can't recall it ever failing on a CD-R.
