LG GSA 4040B only burning at 2X ? help me plz!!!!

[just_one]

hello

i got a LG GSA 4040B and today i bought some dvdr that can handle 4x speed

but when i´m about to burn it , it only shows 2x speed

anybody knows how to fix this?

PS : the dvds are really 4x speed , a friend of mine bought the same pack of 25 as me and can burn them at that speed and i already burned a dvd at 4x

[Colindale]

Make sure your firmware is A302, and use Princo DVD-R or Ritek blanks.


Burnt over 60 princo's at 4X without a dud!.

If you expect to find that all blank DVD's are the same, you will be disappointed.

[just_one]

i got A302

damn my dvds are from MDA not those u said , does this means i can only burn them at 2x

[Phantom Of The Opera]

If it's not burning at 4X for you, there is something you're doing wrong. I can assure you the 4040B does burn at 4X very reliably. I do it all the time (and my firmware revision is A300, so yours should be at least as good).

This drive is very picky about writing to cheap media. I use only Maxell and Memorex (+r and -R) and I burn with Nero 6. No problems burning at 4X.

[smellycanine]

I think your media has to be rated at 4x
I bought some that says up to 4X but it is riteck03, and I cant get above 2x with it. I have read that i will need ritek O4 to make it work. I dont have a local source that I can get printco (that I know of).

Your not alone, but the issue is probably a media issue.

cheers

[Kingnog]

2 things:

1: By "printco" do you mean "princo" ?

2:

This drive is very picky about writing to cheap media.

I use only Maxell and Memorex (+r and -R)

LOL...i consider Memorex to be cheap media

[hech54]

If it's not burning at 4X for you, there is something you're doing wrong. I can assure you the 4040B does burn at 4X very reliably. I do it all the time (and my firmware revision is A300, so yours should be at least as good).

This drive is very picky about writing to cheap media. I use only Maxell and Memorex (+r and -R) and I burn with Nero 6. No problems burning at 4X.

Same here....A300 firmware on my 4040B....burned Ritek G04's at 4x today....3 DVD's to be exact....via DVDDecrypter.

[steve h]

I had this drive for only a week. Updated to A302. First of all it made my computer slow down as if it was using all the system resources and then I burnt 2 PINE dvd's but did not go over 2X. One played fine and the other one froze in my Panasonic DVD player & toshiba dvd-rom. For me it was enough reason to give it back and get Pioneer A06. Eversince I have burnt around 20 dvd-r/rw's(pine, no name generic, verbatim, ritek G04), played just fine on my DVD player and my friends X-box.

[Phantom Of The Opera]

@Kingnog:

True, Memorex is cheap, but it works very well for me. Perhaps I should have said "the drive is very picky about no-name media". I have to stress that the only Memorex that works for me is +/- R. The Memorex RW disks are useless pieces of crap.

@Just_One:

Maybe you already know this, but let me point out that it's improtant that you set the drive to DMA transfer, and also install it as the Master drive on the IDE channel. Good luck!

[Colindale]

By "printco" do you mean "princo" ? .

Sorry typo, Princo is correct, find a brand that works for you and stick with it!.

[Kingnog]

The Memorex RW disks are useless pieces of crap.

Those are what I was referring to

it's improtant that you set the drive to DMA transfer, and also install it as the Master drive on the IDE channel.

I have my gsa-4040b on cable select, and it auto-sets to slave...it seems to be working fine. Is there an advantage to setting it on master? I have a dvd-rom drive on master.

[frisco204]

hmmm....i can't seem to burn on maxell or memorex dvd+r at 2x and 4x and i have the A302 firmware. but it has no problems buring on memorex -r at 2x and sony dvd-r on 4x

[hech54]

I have my gsa-4040b on cable select, and it auto-sets to slave...it seems to be working fine. Is there an advantage to setting it on master? I have a dvd-rom drive on master.

Same here.....CS on my Dell with XP Pro....works perfectly.

[DereX888]

The only advantage, or convenience rather, of setting your 4040 as a master on second IDE is that you will not have to change it when you decide to flash its firmware in the (near) future, as per LG's flash proggie requirements

I have mine as slave on primary, and other one as slave on secondary IDE, they all work fine without any problems.

Most important is enabling UDMA, otherwise you'll be bitching that it eats up your resources (as someone did earlier lol).

Also important is to keep *reader* and *writer* on separate IDE channels as well if you want to be able to copy discs on the fly.
The same goes for 2 writers on 1 system if you want to be able to burn 2 copies at once on both of them, they have to be on separate IDE channels.

[hech54]

Also important is to keep *reader* and *writer* on separate IDE channels as well if you want to be able to copy discs on the fly.
The same goes for 2 writers on 1 system if you want to be able to burn 2 copies at once on both of them, they have to be on separate IDE channels.

NOT exactly necessary.
Both my DVD-Rom and my LG are on the same IDE channel....BOTH set as CS....and just burned two DVD's this morning "On The Fly" with B's Recorder Gold that came with my LG burner.

[Kingnog]

Also important is to keep *reader* and *writer* on separate IDE channels as well if you want to be able to copy discs on the fly.

Ya, I have both drives on the same channel also. Works fine...plus when i bought the computer originally, it came with the cdrw drive (now a dvdrw drive) on same ide as dvd-rom.

The only advantage, or convenience rather, of setting your 4040 as a master on second IDE is that you will not have to change it when you decide to flash its firmware in the (near) future, as per LG's flash proggie requirements

Heh, I've asked about this before in the forums, nobody knows if it works on slave or not...I even emailed the manufacturers, and they said to put it on master...but I didnt feel like changing anything, so I left it on cable select. I've updated firmware twice already, with no problems at all...so all you people out there who are afraid to upgrade firmware with the GSA-4040B on slave, go ahead!