Does anyone know of any way to find out if a cd burner is fried or if there is a program that will do that for you?
thanks
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Does anyone know of any way to find out if a cd burner is fried or if there is a program that will do that for you?
thanks
If, when you start a CD burn, and it doesn't work, it is generally assumed that it is NOT a good sign ...........
Is that what you needed ? :)
Do you have a particular issue ?
more details please :
OS
CD burner - type / age / usage
is the fault intermittant, or is it a constant ?
how long has it been going on ?
does this fault start, coincide with a new App being loaded ?
is CD burner in a SOHO environment - networked ?
are you the sole user - admin ?
You know the drill :)
Hi foxyloxley the cd burner is an older model that came with the computer a pentium 3 128 ram 550 mhz, the burner is a IDE-CD R/RW 4x4x24 Multiread using roxio 6 software it has been used a fair amount and I am the only one who uses it. It started a while back taking 3 tries to burn and now I can not do my back up burning for my programs as for soho I am sorry but I have no idea what that is, no network only home business use . I tried uninstalling the burner and software and reinstalling but no go. When doing up the files for burning every thing seems fine it shows the cd to be burnt to and the little orange light comes on when burning but when I check the cd it shows that it is blank. I also thought it might be the new Roxio software but uninstalling that and reinstalling the software that came with the burner did not work. Plus I can still put in software cds and it reads it no problem.
you can head over to www.cdfreaks.com , get a flashing tool and see if flashing your firmware resolves the problem. If that doesn't help, it's probably fried.
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taking 3 tries to burn
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the little orange light comes on when burning but when I check the cd it shows that it is blank
Doesn't look good does it ............Quote:
I can still put in software cds and it reads it
I'm afraid that, from this, I'd HAVE to advise - buy a NEW one .........
CD burners are real cheap nowadays. The cost of that against your time and effort, and you'll STILL need to replace it soon anyway........
Pax
I've had this problem a few years back before I went DvD. I used Roxio on a Memorex-Rom and it stalled on CD-RWs but burnt fine on CD-Rs. I think age might be a problem. Try a CD-R and a CD-RW. I'd also run a EyE cleaner/duster CD through it.
Thanks folks I have tried both cdr and cdrw same thing no data burned as for cleaning thats the first thing I did, I was hoping it wasnt fired but deep down I kinda figured it might be, oh well now I will have to get a new one. I figured if there was a way to check it you folks would know how. Thanks for your input.
May I make a suggestion? Behold the LG GSA-4163B. I own one of these, and I'll take the Pepsi challenge with this burner against any other, against all measures any day of the week. Cost affective it is.
you better buy a new one... choose "external"
External? You mean on USB or Firewire? I myself have a few of those. An old CD-rewriter from Iomega and a more recent DVD-rewriter from some other brand. I must say that they work reasonable well, but if you have multiple hubs and a lot of other USB devices in use, these external devices tend to get a lot of buffer underruns/overruns, simply because the USB device runs out of bandwidth.Quote:
I happen to also have a TV card on USB. Burning a CD with the CD burner was a bit troublesome if I was also watching TV. Burning a DVD while watching TV was near-impossible, though. Thus I couldn't watch TV while burning a DVD. So I chose a better option and bought an internal DVD rewriter. And now I don't have this USB bandwidth problem anymore.
External devices are quite fun but there is a limit to the number of devices that you can use at the same time. The biggest limit is the bandwidth of the USB, which becomes pretty small after you've connected half a dozen USB devices or more.
I used to recommend USB external devices to people who I felt weren't competent enough to install a simple device internally. But after some thought, it's only a couple extra steps more of plugging to do. External devices are great for certain situations, but it has been my experience that you pay extra for a below-par performance device a lot of the time. But people who are not as savvy with internal hardware recommend external devices to death, and quite honestly harp on the fact that it's the next biggest thing, at the same time they're overlooking the performances and cost. That's my opinion on that.
Let's compare the LG GSA-4163B with any USB external burner.
Price:
Performance:
I think !mitationRust makes some excellent points.
Sure I have external devices. I use them for trouble shooting, one-offs and the like. I tend to look on them as part of my support toolkit?
Sometimes I would recommend them to someone else, but that would be in those situations where they are sharing the device intermittently between a number of devices. tape streamers for backups used to the favourite :D Maybe DVD drives fall into that now, if you have older kit? or, if you have several machines but only use one at a time then an ADSL modem?
Personally, I tend to favour internal devices most of the time.
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i still prefer the "external" one because you can use it anywhere... not only to your machine
Internal devices can also be moved from one computer to another one. It just requires a bit more technical knowledge. Normally, it shouldn't be that much of a problem to remove a DVD-writer from one PC to another, in case you want to upgrade your hardware.Quote:
Originally posted here by Jeckgo
i still prefer the "external" one because you can use it anywhere... not only to your machine
That you can use it everywhere isn't completely true for USB-based DVD-writers. They still come with some drivers but also with some software that should help you to burn a DVD. Often Nero or Roxio stuff... DVD players might be fully plug-and-play by now, though. At least on Windows XP or better.
And again, from personal experience I know that all those devices will eat up quite a bit of bandwidth. In my case, I have a printer, a TV card, my PDA, my mouse, a joystick, my keyboard, my graphic tablet and a Peerless harddisk that allows me to swap external disks of 20 GB each. I also have a few small flash memory pens, a flash card reader, and a DVD-recorder and CD-recorder on USB. I must have a ZIP drive somewhere too. And believe me, if I connect all these devices, my computer will start to complain to me about not having enough bandwidth.
Printing while burning a DVD? Or watching TV while burning a DVD? Impossible if everything is connected to the USB port. That's why I bought an internal DVD-rewriter, simply because that way my USB devices have more bandwidth. If it was possible, I would have loved to have my printer connected to the old-fashioned printer port too and my mouse to the serial port. USB does have a few limitations once you have quite a few USB devices.