Plextor 716A DVDRW Problems

[gizbug]

I am very good with computers, but now I am stuck. I formated my winxp pro machine this weekend. I reinstalled nero (newest), aspi drivers from adaptec, and put 1.04u firmware on for my Plextor px-716a.

Now everytime I burn a dvd, I get coasters. I goes through the whole burn, says done, but looks like it only burned the inner part of the dvd. I've burned 4 coasters tonight, no clue why. As they always say, "It use to work before!"

Am I missing something?
I have a gigabyte 8INxp motherboard. No nvidia chipset on the board. I am running win xp SP2. I use nero 6.6.0.8, have the latest intel application accel and inf files. Have 1 gig ram, 2.8P4. THe burn process sstarts with a flicker, then blinks the amber / yellow light during the burn. The drive is listed in the device manager, and there are no yellow "!" next to it.

PlexTools says
DVDR PX716a
Firmare V1.04 2/10/2005
IDE Setup, slave, interface (ATAPI PIO Mode 0-4, MultiWord DMA mode 0-2, Ulta DMA Mode 0-4)
Dive Letter G

[Juliano]

aspi 471.20 for win xp SP2 is what I have - I don't know if it is the latest but it works here

[jdizzy40]

First try backing up NERO to an earlier release. The Sep 04 release caused the least headaches for folks. Or better yet if you have the original disk for NERO install that version. See if that helps. Post back please and let us know. Also do you have DVD Info Pro? If not get the free version and run a check on the disk you burned. See the results of errors. Also, using good media? Have you tried different brands or using what was sucessful in the past?

[gizbug]

Where I stand now is, when i put a cd or dvd in the drive, windows doesnt even recognize anything in the drive. I go to windows explorer, click on the drive, says please insert disk. No idea whats going on here. Like I have plextools retail cd in there now, not reading / acknologing it.

[jdizzy40]

You could of had a bad flash of the firmware. Either the drive is dead or you could try re-flashing the firmware. My Sony of almost 3 years died after I tried to flash it. If the instructions told you to disable DMA and you didn't this could of caused an interuption of the firmware upgrade also.