Freezing while burning

[corleone31]

Hi, I could really use your help. I'll try to describe the problem the best way I can so you can have all the info you need.

I purchased a DVD Writer (Samsung Lightscriber) recently, and I'm having some troubles burning DVDs. Using Nero, the burning stops at some point (it could happen at 10% or 42% or 70% or any time, really). The "remaining time" continues to decrease, the "total time" continues to increase, but the percentage of info burned stays the same. The software doesn't freeze; I still can hit "Stop" to cancel the burning. But the process doesn't continue and I have to cancel it or turn off the DVD Writer (external).

1) Media: it happened with both bad midia (fake TYG02) or great midia (TDK).

2) Strangely, when I went to check the firmware with Samsung Live Update, it informed me the firmware was up-to-date. However, the program identified my writer as a W162L when, in fact, it's a W164 (it says so in the back of the driver).

3) When I burn discs, I don't multitask. In fact, I always restart Windows (XP) in order to have the maximum amount of memory available.

4) I was trying to burn six huge files (4,2GB total) and couldn't do it. I don't know if it's a coincidence, but then I tried burning only five (3,7GB total) and that's when I was succesfull.

What's happening? Can anyone please help me???

Oh, one more thing: occasionally, I AM able to burn a disc successfully with 4,2+GB. But it's not common.

[corleone31]

No one?

[TBoneit]

I have seen that with a Pioneer 109 when burning too many discs in a row at 16X. burning them at 6X it never happens. I do not know if it is a Nero thing or a drive thing.

Usually for me when that happened that would be it for burning that batch of discs until I ran a couple of different brand discs then it would work Ok for a while again. It is as if something is learning the discs wrong.

[TBoneit]

Oh, one other thing the drive inside the external case may be a W162L but when installed into their external case it will be called something else. Massive confusion if you had internal and external drives with the exact same part number.