sick of wasting dvds please help

well i'd say until he (semid13) posts what media he used as described as cheap... don't make assumptions !

and for the nero log... it already has been provided, just no one analyzed it yet.. until now

@ lenabena...
this is what i find so far.

i dont know what burner that is much less find a revision for it.

234mb left... a little low, you should add another stick of ram
63% mem in use... free up some memory, kill all un-needed applications before using nero, run a defrag, clean out the hdd often.

you have the burn set too close to the edge... back it up to about 4300mb

you are using good media, i personally use these too, among my MCC04's and TY02's

your drive does not seem to recognize your media, hence your burner needing a firmware update, i just cant find that burner, much less know what kind it is... looks like a dell burner..

good setting there.

what are you trying to burn?

 

I want to apologise for the deviation from the original thread but it seems that everytime someone has a problem burning, it's always the cheap media & the fast burning speed that's the culprit.
Yeah experience amounts to nothing & cheap should be inexpensive because due to my high usage I was offered wholesale prices for a variety of brands. I used Verbatim, TDK, LG(Sony made), Mitsubishi, Imation & Maxell. My favorite is Verbatim & TDK. The really cheap one I buy is called A1Pro 8X made in Taiwan. I burned more than 1500pcs - failure rate about 1% same as the branded media.
What I want to emphasise is that most problems are hardware based. In my two years of DVD production, I worn out 4 DVDRW & I am using 5 drives at present. In my opinion, drives are more important than the media you used & they tend to give problems very often & drives favour certain type of media. In this case, experience counts. I like DVD Shrink & I stopped using my DVD X-Copy Platinum a few weeks ago.
I am not trying to act high & mighty & I still have a lot to learn from you folks out there.

 

well, with that said, i guess lenabena proved all of you guys wrong from the get go.... he/she used good media and burned and 4x.
so before jumping the gun, watch, look, read, listen... you may learn a thing or two..

i am not sayig i am the greatest... i had to learn some day.. now i am just on a different level then most !

 

I agree with wilchill. This thread has gone to the wayside. Haven't heard if it worked for Lenabena.

@ Semid13...I do apologize that I was a bit hard on you. I just wanted to offer solutions. It's just that from my experience, it was media when I started that gave me problems. As time goes by and knowing what media to avoid, I came across another problem due to burning speed. There are some brands that do advertised to be 8x, but found out that it doesn't mean the media is as reliable.

I don't want to tell somebody to change their drives, because it's much more inexpensive to just change to quality-made media. It's probably cheaper in the long run to have a quality burner than to keep buying expensive burning media, but most people come here to AD to look for a quick solution so that they can burn...like I used to do.

 

the one's who are truely appreciative are the one's who come back and say thanks, or remain members. then you have the one's who join up, get a quick fix never to return.

 

hi
as GEAR say's , it's all in the log ,which he has read real well
lenabena seems to have done every thing right
@Gear hi
from what i can find on this drive (which is very confused) it's not the best by any means, issues go way back to 2003 with it.
the firmware seems to up to date (you note i say seems)
i'd be inclined to think it was a drive issue

 

yeah those drives are usually in dells or gateways more often then not..
hard to look em up..

thanks for the support gunnard !
btw, seen O.D.'s sale on riteks.. 24.99 for 100 pack ?

 

cheers buddy
no i have'nt yet looked, need a few so will do so
have just looked at my shoutbox, 1st time for about a week so missed your message (me bad, need to be spanked)

 

well, i aint gonna spank you... but you can go to time out !! lol

hurry, sale ends saturday.. i bought 3 spools, so i am stocked for a week !! lol

 

gear no one 'jumped the gun' just trying to rule out the most common problems then go from there. the original post had no error log and very little information. so to resolve problems start with the basics & go from there. all everybody tried to do is offer solutions. nothing more nothing less.

 

@ gjl2002....

you wrong there buddy.... i posted to this thread after a log was produced, and then and only then did i take the time to look through the log and figure out what was going.
if you go back to page 1, a quarter of the way down, the log is there.
you and semid13 were the ones from the get go blaming the media.
which, i know poses a problem, but not once did the original poster state what media was used, so you only assumed....

well, you know what assume means....

anyway, i aint here to start problems... i am better then that, but always alway ask members who have these sorst of problems questions first before making your own assumptions...

 

if u wanna c if u have the most up to date Firmware, check out the following site.

http://forum.rpc1.org/dl_all.php

good luck

 

you using your new powers there gear:super gear the addict.well at least teacher............

 

@gear - i posted BEFORE the log, and the ORIGINAL post by lena had very little info in it and i quote "what discs are you using?" was my original question. as like i previously said bad media is a big problem when people get burning errors. i was assuming nothing but just asking what brand of media so as we can either see if that is the problem or rule it out.

many members have had media isues, just look at the forums.

i dont think ANYONE is on here to cause problems but to help resolve problems. this forum has got way out of hand & i cannot understand why?? all people WERE trying to do is offer lena a solution

 

hi all
lenabena has'nt been back since she posted the log, and i don't blame her.
this thread has dug itself into a big hole and isn't contributing anything, its time it was closed

 

hmmm, maybe i'll unsubscribe !!! lol

 

now there's a thought

 

no, thats ddp's department !!!