TSGL: DVD burner

[The Computer Whisperer]

Buy a new DVD burner, it is stuffed

2008/7/17 Computerfee <computer.fee at googlemail.com>:

> Hi there everybody!
>
> I have been trying like mad to get a DVD burnt last week. Tried Windows
> XP's
> burning facility and my Nero 8 Essentials and started to wonder why there
> was no point given to choose burning a DVD. In the end then I thought the
> drive might be no DVD-burner after all, though I thought the fact that it
> was a CD-burner and DVD player for sure, would mean, they would not produce
> something strange like that, so checked the box it came with several years
> ago and yes, it definitely is a DVD burner: Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-105.
>
> But it seems the device has forgotten it is meant to burn DVD's, it does
> read all the DVD's I have here (which are not that many different ones) as
> well as all CD's and it does burn CD's. I checked online and found it to be
> known for problems but all the people mentioned problems with burning no
> CD's at all and not mentioned the DVD-part at all. By the way, it is the
> first time I ever wanted to burn a DVD with it, so I don't know, if it ever
> was able to do it.
>
> I really would like to know, whether it is possible that the power supply
> problem I had before (without recognizing it for a rather long time) did
> somehow affect/damage only the DVD-burning part of the drive? Or can the
> laser that burns DVD's be the problem when it does burn CD's all correct?
> Or
> can a DVD that it does not recognize, make the possibilities of burning
> DVD's not show up at all? I went and got a single sided DVD-RW 1x-4x but it
> might be too new/good or the "wrong" make then after all?
>
> By the way, a firmware update of the drive was available and I have
> installed that, so should all be installed correctly, as I learnt no
> drivers
> are necessary for such a drive.
>
> Have a nice day
> Heidi
>
>
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