nero dvd burning problem

[LiCiD]

I have a problem when I try to burn a dvd with nero. weather it be a video dvd or data. I am using nero 6.3.1.15, pioneer dvd-rw dvr-104. When I open up nero I can burn a cd with no problem, If I choose dvd though, it freezes, I cant end it either, even in task manager.If i log off, and log back in, nero will still be running and saying not responding. I have to reboot the machine to solve this. I am running windows xp pro sp1, w/all updates, pentium 4 2.53 w/512 mb ram, two 120gb hdd's. I have the most updated firmware for my burner. Note - I also have windows 2000 installed and it has no problem burning a dvd. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

[m2mic]

What type of motherboard do you have? I had the same problem that you have. I have an epox nvidia nforce 2 ultra motherboard, and a liteon dvd burner. I think I read somewhere that the nforce 2 chipset had a problem with multiple IDE devices. I have a 40 gig, a 60 gig and a 160 gig hard drive along with the dvd burner. I had some be-all 1x dvd-r's that the computer would freeze up when I tried to burn them. So I went into the device manager in XP and changed the settings from UDMA to PIO mode and it burned fine even though the buffer kept dropping down to 10% in Nero. After I got done with thoses disks I set it back to UDMA and didn't have any problems with some memorex disks. Then I got some ritek disks and it was freezing up again. I though that there has to be an easier way around this. I have the dvd burner as the secondary master. So I went into the BIOS and seen that the seconday master was set as PIO mode auto, udma mode auto. So I changed PIO mode from auto to mode 4 and left udma set on auto. I left it set on udma mode in the device manager in xp also. Now I can burn those ritek disk without freezing up. It seems to burn any type of disks now perfectly, and the buffer in nero stays up around 96% to 99% and never drops any lower then that. I don't know why thoses settings would matter, but it works fine now so I'll leave it set that way. The only thing I can think of is that it has to do with the nforce 2 chipset. I don't know if you have that chipset or not, but thats how I got it to work on my computer. Hope that helps.

[LiCiD]

thanks for all that info, I will try it out and see if it helps. I have an ASUS P4T motherboard. My burner is set to master, but that shouldnt matter. It does sound like you were having the same trouble I am, so I hope your solution works for me. Thanks again. And I will post to let you know.