not much luck

[shawn]

Hello. I have a V4 w/ a no solder chip. I had a previous post a week ago regarding a disc read error with Vice city. I've burned 4 DVD games so far, and Kinetica is the only one I can seem to get to work. (I've gotten a couple CD games to work, but didn't test em' too long). Vice city froze 5 minutes into the game , Slugfest freezes after the second "press start menu" and I just tried Smackdown, and it doesn't even get past the final Action Replay 2 screen. I am using Ritek DVD's and burning with a powermac superdrive. I am using Toast 5.1.4, and doing a straight copy. Always on 1x (its the only choice I have anyway). I was told this could be because of the laser on the V4 not being so great. But is there any other reason that could be causing this???