DVD RW question

[Matt]

My CD-RW drive died recently and I decided to replace it with a NEC DVD-RW
3520AW drive. I haven't had a chance to try to burn a DVD yet but it plays
normal DVD's just fine. But when I try to burn a CD I start running into
problems. It will not burn a CD-R at any speed higher than 8x. I've tried
several different brands of CD-R disks and I've upgraded the firmware of the
drive to the latest available but every time I bump up the speed past 8x I
get write errors and the session stops. And I'm using Nero Express 6 that
came bundled with the drive. Is there some sort of setting for DVD-RW drives
that I'm not aware of when burning CD-R's or do you think I have a bad
drive?

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[jaster]

My CD-RW drive died recently and I decided to replace it with a NEC DVD-RW
3520AW drive. I haven't had a chance to try to burn a DVD yet but it plays
normal DVD's just fine. But when I try to burn a CD I start running into
problems. It will not burn a CD-R at any speed higher than 8x. I've tried
several different brands of CD-R disks and I've upgraded the firmware of
the drive to the latest available but every time I bump up the speed past
8x I get write errors and the session stops. And I'm using Nero Express 6
that came bundled with the drive. Is there some sort of setting for DVD-RW
drives that I'm not aware of when burning CD-R's or do you think I have a
bad drive?

Yes take it back and get another better if another brand. On the other
hand check your Nero settings and utility diagnostics. There's
an option to test the burn speed of your burner. It might be stuck at the
speed of the old burner. Assuming your CDs can be burnt a better than 8x.

 

[Matt]

On Sun, 02 Oct 2005 20:03:20 -0400, Matt thoughtfully wrote:

Yes take it back and get another better if another brand. On the other
hand check your Nero settings and utility diagnostics. There's
an option to test the burn speed of your burner. It might be stuck at the
speed of the old burner. Assuming your CDs can be burnt a better than
8x.

Ahh I didn't see the diagnostics utility... I'm peaking at 10x with three
different brands of 52x CD-R's so I guees the drive is junk. Thanks.