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Poineer, Plextor, Benq or NEC are all good drives

 

Noticed you did not put Lite-on... whats your take on that drive MFG.?

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16827129001

i found this on new egg, its cheaper but is it better? Basically all i need this for is burnign and backing up my ps2 games perfectly, if it can do that with no prob ill be happy, if anyone would be so kind to find me one on newegg or something id be very happy

 

Uggh...Muchos problemas.

So, I install everything, and things are fine...Working with original M/B Bios and as I try to update them from the web to the latest BIOS, my PC will only work in safe mode...I cannot boot windows normally or from last know working configuration...I reinstall chipset drivers for the MB and CPU but no dice...Asus first suggested Clearing the RTC RAM (CLRTC) as an option, but that did not work either.

Asus suggests I reinstall Windows again...Is this really my only option?...Not the worst thing in the world to happen but besides the lengthy procedure, I already have installed a great deal on the computer in a short time...

 

Can you system restore?

 

I use a Lite-on rom drive and have never had any issues with it, but never had a Lite-on burner to remark on.

 

Opinions are often relative. A lot of people swear by BenQ burners, but I had such an appalling experience with them I vowed never to buy from them again, and haven't.

 

@aspire180
Get 2 x floppies and format the first a normal boot disk.
Second load with afudos and then copy your old bios to it and load that.
Not sure how you updated your bios, but doing it through windows is the last option I would choose, as it all too often leads to failures or problems.
If you paln to re-load drivers then make sure you completely remove them first, also best practice is the edit the registry and clean out any of the entries associated with the removed items.

 

@sammorris

Ya your right... but its another insight and alot of people will add more info. to an question...

I dont mind the extra reading and you take everything w/ a grain a salt... eat the meat and spit out the bones.

 

Yeah, as I say, opinions are relative.

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16827151133

after searching newegg, this is the finest i could find for myself. Just one thing ill bother you guys about. Will this be a good burner for burning and backing up my ps2 games. On a side note what kind of dvds would i need.

 

Yup, thar be a good DVD burner. 18x is a little unnecessary though, I'd expect 16x would be the best you'd find in high quality media (Verbatim DVD+R is highly recommended).

 

For PS2 games I always use Taiyo Yuden and burn at x4, but Verbatim are considered as good by a majority of people.
Definately keep away from any other media though, as cheap disks cause jumps in game play, and delays in scene loading.

 

Didn't Verbatim use Taiyo Yuden discs at one point?

 

TY Dye

 

Right. Strange as it may seem, me being an aD addict, I don't know all that much about optical media, only the obvious, and a bit of past experience.

 

It seems that you know the most important thing, and thats to buy quality.
Anything else is just add-on

 

Yeah, pretty much. I like the expression "buy cheap and you buy twice", except sometimes it doesn't stop at twice...

 

what exactly does 18x is unesscary mean. Its cheap enuff for me so its better than what i need? if so thats awesome

 

I mean that it's capable of writing at 18x speed (I think that's 25MB/s) whereas most discs only allow 16x (22MB/s), so having the extra speed is pointless, since it doesn't get used. At that price though, there's no reason not to get it!