Pioneer DVR 108 - Problems with I/O errors at certain speeds

[rickola1977]

I have WinXP SP2 on an AMD 64 3400+ system, with a Soltek Nvidia NFORCE3 chipset MB, 1GB DDR400, with a Pioneer DVR-108 fm1.14, UltraDMA4.

I bought some Ridata 8X DVD+R disc and in the beginning, using DVDDecrypter 3.5.1, with the speed set to MAX, I could burn at speeds up to 12X with no problems. Lately, I've been getting a LOT of I/O errors at about the 97% completion mark whenever speed is set at MAX or anything higher than 4X. The drive can still burn at 8X and higher but ends up with an I/O error as mentioned above.

I don't know if this is coincidence that at 4X burned well and other speeds do not.

Can anyone please help me try and solve this??? I just burned two DVD's this morning at 4X with no problems. I'm going to set it to MAX and try again and see if I still get the error.

Could it be the DVD media is bad?? I did get an error the other day at 4X speed and it was right near the beginning of the burn.

I also have a Samsung W08A on my Athlon XP 2000+ system and it also gets a lot of I/O errors if I try and burn at MAX instead of 4X. Than is has to be the DVD media right??


ALSO, say it is the media. I read all the time how certain media like Ritek G04 are better than RITEK R03-02 but my question is, how do you KNOW what your buying when it's not stated on the label if its G04, etc...

I want to buy a good disc...

Thanks

[daamon]

Hi ,

My guess would be the media. I don't know Ridata, so my comment is based on the symptoms you describe.

To check disc info:

DVD Identifier
DVDInfo Pro

Of course, checking before you buy won't be as easy - I wouldn't know how you'd do that.

Hope that helps some...

[rickola1977]

Thanks for your response daamon, but the problem is not the media. I also thought this for a while.

For all of you just now reading this thread, the problem is with WindowsXP SP2. I did a fresh install of WindowsXP SP2 and had the same problem. So I went back and did a fresh install of WindowsXP SP1a and VOILA!! I'm burning at 12X speed using the same media with absolutely no problem.

I was thinking back and remembered that upgrading to SP2 was one of the only changes I made since the beginning when I was burning at 12X speed. I had also upgraded my system as a whole and so that's why I didn't catch it sooner. I couldn't remember if I had used the burner before I upgraded all my hardware or not.

I"m having the SAME problem in my other computer which has a Samsung W08A DVD Burner. It won't burn faster than 4X without an I/O Failure near the end of the burn. It also has WindowsXP SP2 on it, but it won't for too much longer I guarantee!


If anyone knows of which service(s) to disable in SP2 to fix this problem, please let me know, but it's not the media, it's not the DMA, it's not the drive, again it's a crappy OS from Microsoft.

[VamPYR]

Hi, im having the same drive (Box version) as your, and i have 2 of them in my system, also another DVR-107 use as external USB2.0 device,
motherboard abit IC7-Max3, 1GB DDR440, P4-3.08G HT 800 (o'c), winxp pro sp2, nero 6.3.1.25 - 6.6.0.1 ultra, media use : DVD-R prodisc (MMC02), ritek G04, no I/O error as mentioned by you.
i dont think is sp2 problem, make sure you got your bios, driver and burning program up to date, when you upgrade to sp2.
cheers.

[budz]

Ridata is RITEK media.