Having some dvd-r problems....could use some help...

Gamespot03 · #1 05-12-2002, 12:31

So here is the issue.....

For some reason I am having problems recording from the harddrive to the dvd burner.....I went ahead and put a bunch of games onto my cpu and when I go to burn from the image I always get error messages......no matter what speed I burn at...

Now I have:

emachines...766mhz w/ 512megs ram
Windows ME
16x dvd rom
pioneer 104 (which I thought was bad so they sent me out a brand new one)

I have the Messiah modchip no-swap.....not a clone.....

I am using:

Apple media and also
Princo

For the most part this is what I have been doing:
I use prassi primo dvd
I am following charlies dvd instructions to the tee......

I have tried burning at 1x, 2x, max.....
I have tried apple, princo 1 and 2x discs.....
I have tried to create the global image at max, medium, and minimum speeds......

I cannot do a disc-to-disc copy of a previous burned game.....

I CAN do a disc-to-disc copy from an original game
I CAN do a global image on the cpu and burn from the on some games.......

What is my problem here?....Any help would be greatly appreciated.....this is really killing me here....

Now is it because of the newer games and the copyright that is not allowing me to burn a copy?......
Do I need to relace/patch that copyright before I can burn the game?

BG · #2 05-12-2002, 12:41

Its not because they are newer games.....

I would suspect the setup of your A04....

How is it connected? Master, Slave...?

Is it on the same ide cable as your hardrive?

Gamespot03 · #3 05-12-2002, 12:57

thanks for the quick reply....

It is setup as a slave on the secondary ide slot, the only other thing it is connected to is the dvdrom (set up as master)....

The hadddrive is connected by itself to the Primary master Ide slot .......

it does not make much sense that some games will burn and some will not.....(burning to cd from a global image)

bighap · #4 05-12-2002, 13:04

It should be connected a master for full fuctionality.

BG · #5 05-12-2002, 13:05

Have you tried installing the PXEngine update?

It may help your problem. Just use the search button and search for "pxengine"... You should find a link to download it, if you have not done so already....

Have you noticed if the games you CAN burn are around 1 gig or less in size, and the ones you CAN'T burn are over 1 gig?

Gamespot03 · #6 05-12-2002, 13:12

Bighap.....

I will connect it as a master and see what happens......will it make that big of a difference set as a slave?

BG.....

No I have not installed the px engine update....
will that make a big difference?

Also I have not noticed that the games under 1 gig burn and that the ones over dont.....

If this is the case, is it because of the px engine update?

Are you referring to the update that is in your downloads page from your website?....or the one that comes with the primo download from your website?

bighap · #7 05-12-2002, 13:16

Thats what the book recommends and people have had problems when connected as slave and then switch to master and everything is fine. As BG said a PXengine update is another common fix.

Gamespot03 · #8 05-12-2002, 13:24

lt me go and install the psxengine update and switch to master and I will get back soon......

thanks again for all the help....

Gamespot03 · #9 05-12-2002, 16:18

some work ok, and some still do not work.....wait a sec....

ok so on harddrive 1 I placed the pxengine on and built an image from a game that previously did not work, and seemed to work fine.....

Now on the second harddrive:

It will not work whatsoever.....I could not burn at any speed...nothing worked.....

here is the error message:

ERROR 10 AT SECTOR 1779072 -BUFFER UNDERRUN- COMMAND 2A SENSE:05 ASC:21 ASCQ:02

but if I have the AUTO INSERT NOTIFICATION ON....affect the burning?

for some reason I remembered that I did not change the settings on the second harddrive.......will this make the difference?

Gamespot03 · #10 05-12-2002, 17:07

Have been trying to burn nhl 2003 for the past few hours....

NO LUCK.....

I installed the psengine update......NO LUCK
changed the auto insert notification to off.............NO LUCK
tried to burn at all speeds (max, 2x,1x....apple media)......NO LUCK

Any ideas as to why I am having sooooo many problems?

bighap · #11 05-12-2002, 17:09

Did you change you 104 to master?

Gamespot03 · #12 05-12-2002, 17:33

yes...changed to master....

I just noticed that nba live 2003 got to 97% then errored.....

TheMasterRat · #13 05-12-2002, 17:38

For starters, get rid of WinME....

The problem you're having is the hard drive can't feed the writer data fast enough to keep up with the laser.

Make sure you're not running gobs of tasks in your system tray.
Turn off anti-virus, turn off firewall stuff. All that crap software that may have compiled over time.

It's possible the second hard drive is slower RPM ( 5400, as opposed to 7200 ) than the first one and that's why you see more failures when using that drive.

Good luck.

Yes, I was serious about getting rid of WinME...

Gamespot03 · #14 05-12-2002, 18:03

actually I am getting rid of WINME.....dont care to much for it at all.......

but I wiped the drive clean......there are no other programs running while Primo is running.....what is going on here?

I have a 7200 rpm drive for sure...these games are already on the harddrive, I just get the errors when they are trying to burn..

any ideas?

bighap · #15 05-12-2002, 18:19

I posted your problem in the dvd backup forum and the cd/dvd writer forum. Maybe somebody in one of those forums has an answer for your problem.