Just to add to Gwen's post - what's weird is Nero is showing the burner as a DRU-820A not the DRX-820U - 2 different models. You can try and autoburn w/ dvd decrypter (free) and Shrink. http://www.mrbass.org/dvdrip/ Intall Decrypter then go to mode>iso>write. See if the correct burner is recognized there under destination. Choice your burn speed then close decrypter. When you click 'back up' in Shrink under select backup target pick 'iso image file and burn w/ dvd decrypter'. See if that works. Since this burner works in your daughters laptop I'm thinking it has something to do with your laptop and whats on it - a driver conflict maybe w/ this burner as gwen's post has. Also for your Toshiba drive turn DMA back on. Here's a guide if needed: http://home.comcast.net/~bbmayo/checking DMA.pdf Another thing maybe to post a log from your daughter's laptop w/ this burner to compare. Oh and edit out your serial # - begins w/ 1A @ICE42O Wrong thread - this has nothing to do w/ avi's.
its not a neccessity but see if there ia a difference if you turn the dma on the dvd rom. Also realistically you dont have much physical memory and as this is laptop which utilises a lot , might upgrade to 512 or 1024 for better performance. @binkie7 and gwen: evening laddies @ ICE42O: instead of hijacking this thread how about you go and start a new one in the newbie forum but before you go, yes you can after you convert it to mpeg2 guy