Did anyone have problem with nero 6.0.0.28 ?

[lsdirrm]

Today I bought my new dvd burner, LG GSA 4040B. After I put it in the catrage and connected it to the power and data cable, my BIOS can detect it. Then I upgrade firmware to A301, sucessfully. And I turned DMA on in the second IDE channel which my DVD burner connected to. I had a good time untill I began to install nero.

I first download the nero6 ultra edition from nero.com, and install it with the serial key. Then I can check the info of my DVD burner and blank DVD-R disks. The burner can read my old music and video CD, so the hardware should be ok. I bought some generic no name DVD-Rs (max 2x write for DVD-R) coz they are cheap. The burning setting is simple for me as I had used CD-R with nero 5.x burner software for two years. Then I start burning my first data DVD. Just right after I start to burn in 2x speed, it prompts: caching the file... then nero froze. There was no read from hardisk and no write to DVD burner, and I can not close the nero. My OS is win2k server+sp3. I can not even kill the nero process wiht the task manager. It's totally dead there. I had to reboot, try burning again, Nero got dead again. Then I uninstall the nero demo version, try download its full version, about 90M after I extracted it. I install it and start burning. It's still dead!!! Then I doubt it's nero 6.0.0.28 causing the problem. I uninstall it and install B's Recorder GOLD5 that came with LD burner. Now I can burn DVD-R in 2x, I burned a 4.3G DVD in about 35 mins, and burned a CD-R in 24x, both burned CD/DVD media can be played with 3rd party software.

Now I can say the burner is ok, and burning process is so quiet while my old CD burner is louder. Although I dislike the B's Recorder GOLD5, but so far it's the only working one. I dunno if anyone met the same problem as me? I like nero, but dunno which version is stable. 6.0.0.28 is the lastest, but it's so painful to use it. My pc is a bit old, only 600Mhz cpu with 448M SDRAM, but the burner works smoothly by B's Recorder GOLD5.

[hiptune]

I am using the same burner, latest Nero, and cheapest discs (to learn the ropes), and am having no frozen problems.

Sounds like you need to do some memory (or computer) upgrading.

Sorry about this, and the solution $$$

Jeff

[Beams]

I have the LG4040B and started using 5.5.0.54 it burned -R 2x TDK and Maxell media at 2.4 and burned Ritek -R 4x at 4x. Could not see Ritek Ram disk. I went to 6.0.0.28 to see if that would remedy my RAM problem. Not only did it not see or burn RAM disk it burned my 2x disk at 2x. I went back to 5.5.0.54. Still haven't found a RAM disk that works.

LG 4040B
Win98SE

[jrsdsl]

I used the included Maxell ram disk with no problem and some Fuji disks as well. Nero was a problem but RecordNow Deluxe 6 works great.

[Colindale]

???600Mhz cpu with 448M SDRAM??

I would suggest you upgrade your computer, as no doubt you are using an old hard drive also, you need to feed data to the burner at a fast rate to get good results.

Nero 5.5.10.54 works perfectly with the LG 4040b and firmware 301A.

[lsdirrm]

My motherboard is old, and HD is 80G maxtor bought this year. Today I installed nero 5.5.10.54, same thing. It's still dead. I am sure it's because of my low hardware config. But I know the difference between B's Recorder GOLD5 and nero. B's Recorder firstly creates an image file in HD, then it burns the image to dvd-r. Nero will cache a part of file then burn it, then cache again, burn again. So if your pc has low bus speed and cpu, it will freeze always. B's Recorder avoids this by caching all in the HD, then the burning process is more like "file transfer" that does not need high speed cpu/bus to smooth burning. It's slower than nero but safe and good for low config pc like mine.

thx all you guys. I am happy now although I can't use nero. I will try nero once I upgrade my pc. 8)

[Phantom Of The Opera]

I used the included Maxell ram disk with no problem and some Fuji disks as well. Nero was a problem but RecordNow Deluxe 6 works great.

Ah, maybe a useful nugget of info here -- are you saying RecordNow Deluxe 6 works with the LG 4040B drive? Because I never could get RecordNow Max 4.5 to work with my 4040 (work with it? Hell, it wouldn't even recognize it. Just didn't see the drive at all). The problem is, there is no free trial version of RN6 for me to check out.

If RN6 works for you, maybe I should just buy it and take the chance. BTW, Nero works great for me (5.5.10.50, 5.5.10.54 and 6.0.0.19).

[Phantom Of The Opera]

lsdirrm:

I'm sorry you're having trouble getting things to work, but IMO it's very unlikely that the trouble is simply that you motherboard is old, or something superficial ike that.

FYI, my motherboard is also old-ish (P3 866Mhz, 512mb Ram, Win2k Pro, ASUS motherboard, Maxtor 80GB EIDE drive and Fujitsu 8GB SCSI drive), and I can tell you the LG 4040B works just fine for me (various versions of Nero, CloneDVD free trial version, DVDXCopy 1.4.1 retail copy). I use Memorex and Maxell DVD-R and DVD+R, as well as Maxell DVD-RAM (the one supplied with the drive) with no problems. The drive's firmware rev is A300.

You have to be careful in how your hardware is set up. My LG is set up as the Secondary Master, with my DVD-ROM drive as the Secondary Slave. The Primary Master is my Maxtor Drive, and the Primary Slave is an LG CD-RW burner. All IDE channels are set to use DMA.

So -- 4 IDE devices and a SCSI drive. You can see my setup is more complex than many home users, and it still works fine. The only advantage I can think of that I have is my SCSI drive. I always use that as the "source" of data to be written to DVD.

P.S. I have found that the LG drive is very fussy about the quality of DVD blanks you use. No cheap no-name sh!t for it, that's for sure.

[kenshin himura]

maybe you should give that new tool deepburner a try. its freeware, so you got nothing to lose if ya got an +/-rw to check it on.