I just bought a new pioneer burner with MF3.5. I'm having problems burning about 30% of everything I burn. The computer doesn't freeze, the program just stops working and the time still counts up, it goes forever and nothing happens until I have to power the machine; wasting the disc and much time. Usually, I can prevent this when burning CDs by checking the test option, but when I do that, I get a lot of "Unable to write disc cache" error messages; everything stops and I have to sit through the test phase again if I want multiple copies; the discs still work fine after this, but it is still very annoying.
Don't know if perhaps I installed the drive wrong, pretty sure I didn't though, or if it's a faulty drive. I'm using Windows XP, have plenty of space and don't have any other burning programs installed at the moment. I've tried a burning pack and a patch and have also reinstalled the program, things didn't change or got even worse. Any feedback will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Movie Factory 3.5 - Complete Program Halt burning DVD/CD
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Geoffrey
Movie Factory 3.5 - Complete Program Halt burning DVD/CD
Can you say how you have installed the burner and some information on the computer/motherboard?
Is the burner on the same IDE cable as the hard drive?
If so have you set it or the hard drive to slave?
Does the motherboard have a plug for a second IDE cable?
If so can you connect the burner to that?
I suggest you use rewriteable disks while testing
Geoffrey
Is the burner on the same IDE cable as the hard drive?
If so have you set it or the hard drive to slave?
Does the motherboard have a plug for a second IDE cable?
If so can you connect the burner to that?
I suggest you use rewriteable disks while testing
Geoffrey
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dragitron
I installed the burner exactly the way I was told. Just switched it out with an old burner. No, the burner is not on the same cable as the hard drive, there is a seperate cable for the Burner and a CD rom. I'm positive everything is connected the right way and the master/slave switch in the back is correct.
Although, I was actually thinking the other day if anything has to be done in the bios setup, which I've actually never had to do on this computer (been a very long time, not quite sure how to get there; there are no prompts for it when I boot up the machine and there is no instructions pertaining to it with the burner), maybe a master/slave setting in there will help, just a guess. If someone knows, please tell me before I decide to give this program the boot; shouldn't have to go through all this to fix a relatively simple problem.
Thanks for the reply.
Joe
Although, I was actually thinking the other day if anything has to be done in the bios setup, which I've actually never had to do on this computer (been a very long time, not quite sure how to get there; there are no prompts for it when I boot up the machine and there is no instructions pertaining to it with the burner), maybe a master/slave setting in there will help, just a guess. If someone knows, please tell me before I decide to give this program the boot; shouldn't have to go through all this to fix a relatively simple problem.
Thanks for the reply.
Joe
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lucycocker
Sorry about the wastage. I will make a suggestion.
When you purchased the Pioneer you may have received Nero software? If so install and update it - you can use Nero to burn video files to a DVD instead of using MF3.5. So rather than burning to a DVD with MF, click the option to create DVD folders on your hard disk (keep size under 4.3Gb).
With Ulead DVD Player you can open the files to play. If all is well, use Nero to burn the video files to a DVD. Be sure the disks you use are a good brand.
When you purchased the Pioneer you may have received Nero software? If so install and update it - you can use Nero to burn video files to a DVD instead of using MF3.5. So rather than burning to a DVD with MF, click the option to create DVD folders on your hard disk (keep size under 4.3Gb).
With Ulead DVD Player you can open the files to play. If all is well, use Nero to burn the video files to a DVD. Be sure the disks you use are a good brand.
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heinz-oz
You didn't tell us anything about the system you installed this drive on. You also didn't say whether it was installed as the master or the slave on the IDE channel. From my own experience I would suggest to make the burner the Master and enable UDMA for it if that is not yet done by your OS.
Since you are getting a lot of cache errors when you do a burn with a test before, I suggest the problem is exactly that. Only if you do a straight burn, the system will stop just there. There are a few settings that need to be right for everything to work. We got nothing to work on. Do you have buffer underrun protection enabled?
Give us some detail we can work on and I'm sure we can sort this.
Since you are getting a lot of cache errors when you do a burn with a test before, I suggest the problem is exactly that. Only if you do a straight burn, the system will stop just there. There are a few settings that need to be right for everything to work. We got nothing to work on. Do you have buffer underrun protection enabled?
Give us some detail we can work on and I'm sure we can sort this.