Pioneer DVR-108 faulty?

[mattstan]

Pioneer DVR-108 faulty?

Hi,

I bought a Pioneer DVR-108 about 3 weeks ago, updated to the latest Pioneer firmware immediately --v. 1.18--, and both read and burned DVDs successfully for 2 weeks.

Now I can read fine but not successfully burn at all. The advise I got about this in newsgroups and on some web forums was that the DVD blank media I was using was of poor quality. I no longer think this is the problem as 4 different blank DVD media have failed including some very high quality Taiyo Yuden DVD-R 8 speed disks. I've tried burning using Nero 6 and DVD Decrypter and get nothing but coasters. Errors, with various media and software, include:

Unable to recover TOC.
Invalid address for write.
No more track reservations allowed.
File system parsing failed.

On at least two occasions everything seemed to burn fine, no errors, sucess dialog at end of burn, but complete failure to subsequently read the DVD ('incompatible media present', 'please insert DVD' type of errors).

I've reinstalled the firmware, reinstalled software (Nero and DVD Decrypter), tried burning all kinds of data such as; DVD movie ISOs and normal PC data files EG. Word docs, text files, PDFs, etc. Recently I've also installed the Adaptec ASPI 4.60 found in 'forceaspi17.zip' which is supposidly the most highly compatible ASPI layer available. Lastly I've uninstalled the DVR-108 using Win 2000's Device Manager and then allowing Win 2000 to reinstall it. I've tried turning my Firewall off, closed my anti-viris software (and its service too). None of this has allowed me to burn successfully. Windows 2000 Device Manager has assured me throughout that 'this device is working properly'.

Can anyone think of something else I could try? Is my DVR-108 faulty? Is there any way to test if it is faulty? NOTE: Reading DVDs has worked flawlessly throughout!

Please help. Thanks,

MS

[Bodyslide]

I would see if you can return it and have it replaced from the store you bought it from.

[mijman]

Sounds to me like you have laser issues.

Take it back if you can.