Help With Burning DVD! Please!!!!

[Tarheel1978]

I have tried Recordnow DX (Supplied with my Pioneer DVR-A04) and Nero and can't get either of them to burn witout either crashing my system or failing. I luckily use test first and didn't waste media. Can anyone please help????

[SLK001]

Sure, I can. First, from your post, I am assuming that you are using an old Amiga system hacked to support your A04. Your hack has probably caused your operating system to be unstable. Your fix? Unhook your Hyperlync card and patch the Heisenberg compensator to accept no less than 4 teraquads of streaming data (search the web for this patch). Link to your flux capacitor and then you should have smooth sailing.

[Tarheel1978]

Ok, I thought I would get some real help here. If anyone else could please help me it would be greatly appreciated

[SLK001]

You can get some real help if you give us the information that we need to help you. Obviously, you didn't get my sarcasm about your original post - ie, that it lacked sufficient information for us to be able to even guess what your problem is. In fact, in your second post, you still didn't offer any information (let alone useful info).

Not many of us are mind-readers (although, some of us are). However, the "mind-readers" only read these posts once a week. If you want immediate help, you are going to have to give the "rest" of us some information. All I can tell from your posts is that your system crashes when you burn a disk.

[Cooly-O]

I have tried Recordnow DX (Supplied with my Pioneer DVR-A04) and Nero and can't get either of them to burn witout either crashing my system or failing. I luckily use test first and didn't waste media. Can anyone please help????

Just make sure you only one of the burning programs installed at a time. They often conflict when they are both installed on same operating system.

[Tarheel1978]

Ok, I will try and give some detailed info. All of my system info is already included on my description. Recently I added a 60GB Maxtor HD in addition to my 30GB Maxtor HD. I completely reinstalled windows xp because I was having the problem with burning and thought It was xp. After the reinstall I installed Veritas Recordnow DX (which was supplied by Pioneer with my dvr-ao4). I already had The Silence of the Lambs ripped to another partition (menues, extra audio and subtitles were stripped with ifoedit). I then tried burning it with Recordnow (test before burn) and my system locks up. I tried it 5 times and all the same. Sometimes I get a blue screen saying something like "invalid page fault in non-paging area" and something about a memory dump. I then got Nero and tried test before burning with it and it just said it failed (tried at 1X on both programs). I hope this is enough info to help. If it isn't then please let me know what I need to include and I will do ASAP. SLK, I got your sarcasm and thought you were being a smart @$$ instead of helping. If I missed judged you then I am sorry.

[SLK001]

All of my system info is already included on my description.

Yeah, except for the important stuff.

For instance, what is on your PRIMARY IDE channel? On your SECONDARY IDE channel? Since the A04 is an IDE device, it should be the MASTER of its channel. So, I would have it the MASTER of the SECONDARY IDE channel with any non HD device as the SLAVE. For the two HDs, hook them as MASTER and SLAVE on the PRIMARY IDE channel. Make sure that the IDE channels are selected for DMA, IF AVAILABLE (NOT PIO MODE).

Next, you don't tell us what your system is? For instance, is it a 2.2GHz dual P4 system or a 733 MHz Athelon? Who makes your motherboard?

You obviously have a conflict somewhere in your system. You are going to have to describe your system like you would describe a car to a blind person. Only then will we have enough info to truly help you.

As for being a smart @$$, yes, I am, but I can be a helpful smart @$$!

[Cooly-O]

As for being a smart @$$, yes, I am, but I can be a helpful smart @$$!

While your being a helpful smart-ss, might I shoot a little problem I have past yeah. My system occasionally crashes (all of sudden no video signal to monitor, and who knows what's happening with the computer). The only way I can do a reboot is to turn the computer off twice, the 2nd time I turn it back on it boots as normal. Even when I go into the BIOS it results in same type of crash/sleep mode and doesn't boot up until I power off twice. I turned off all sleep mode settings in monitor Display settings.

I ran a scandisk type utility in "Ontrack SystemSuite 4.0" and it cleaned a couple of things up but told me I must do a chkdsk /f. I haven't been able to go all the way through the chkdsk task (I made it once to Step 5 of 5 at at-least 70%, then I walked away and it was off again when I came back)

I'm running Win2000 Pro, 300W power supply in my Antec Case (6 months old), just bought a pretty nice ($145) UPS (uninterupted power supply) but doesn't solve.

Might it be the power supply? Sounds like the C: drive to me but I don't know how to resolve or to get chkdsk to complete with or without the /f extension.

[SLK001]

This sounds like a severe software (probably a driver) conflict. The "two-boot-to-clear" scenario is W2000 trying to solve a conflict. Check all of your resources to see if any report a conflict (although the system doesn't always see one). I had a conflict with my sound card and a new network adaptor in my computer. The network adaptor would NOT let me re-assign its INT vector. It may require the removal of ALL non-essential cards (use the CONTROL PANEL to do this), and re-installing them one at a time. This will let Windows find the new hardware and assign the resources one at a time. If you found a resource conflict with a card, install that card first, then follow with the more tolerant cards (I found that the cheaper the card, the less tolerant it was!). Also, sometimes you can watch the display on boot-up... sometimes it gives you a clue that it is having problems with a certain resource.

[SLK001]

I wasn't entirely clear here. When I said to REMOVE ALL NON-ESSENTIAL cards, I meant to PHYSICALLY REMOVE THEM from the machine. Then re-install them one at a time back into the machine.

[Cooly-O]

I wasn't entirely clear here. When I said to REMOVE ALL NON-ESSENTIAL cards, I meant to PHYSICALLY REMOVE THEM from the machine. Then re-install them one at a time back into the machine.

Thanks much. I'll experiment.

[Tarheel1978]

Alright SLK Im gonna get a little smart now! Dude you can click on my computer details button to get all that info you want! My A04 is my master on my secondary IDE w/my Sony CD-RW as the slave. On my Primary IDE I have a 60GB HD as master and a 30 GB HD as my slave. Anything else???

[SLK001]

When you say "crashing my system", do you mean that the screen turns blue with a "KERNAL ERROR" message, then reboots? If so, then this is a quite probably a resource conflict - possibly two programs trying to "control" your recorders simultaneously (just like Cooly-O suggested). I'm not an XP user (W2000P is my OS of choice), so I'm going to suggest stuff based on educated guessing. First, what was your burning software BEFORE you got your A04? Is it still installed (if different)? If so, try using the INSTALL/UNINSTALL SOFTWARE in the CONTROL PANEL and REMOVE all but your preferred burning SW (I have been using NERO for over a year, so I didn't have any conflicts with this type of SW). Secondly, have you downloaded the latest drivers for your MB? I know some people with AMD based MBs have had problems with early drivers for the VIA chipset. Later drivers appear to have fixed this. Also, tell me how far into the burn does it fail (immediate, after 5 minutes, or nearly all the way through)?

[Tarheel1978]

All my problems were solved when I formatted my HD and installed Windows ME. I guess XP causes some problems but all is well now. I am planning to do a dual boot system so i can use ME for DVD's. Thanx for help!