Is My DVD-RW Dying ?

unstopabl3 · 11-06-2006, 09:46 AM

Hi long time no see people how are ya'll :)
I was hoping i get an opinion from my fellas before i went ahead and screamed at Dell.
If anyone remembers about the time when i posted about purchasing a Dell Inspiron 6400 laptop ? Well this issue is related to that laptop.
Everything has been running smooth so far until recently i ran into issues. I have burned about 50-100 cds and dvds altogether without any issues but since a few days whenever i burn something i am getting errors at like 80% done status or even 90% done status and it's very frustrating. Although the status window of nero shows 8x speed but it takes like 10 mins to burn a 300 mb file which wasnt the case before. So i think somethings wrong with my DVD-RW drive or mayb it's these new DVD-R's which i bought recently from a warehouse which had a massive sale. I got 100 dvd-r's for like $11 canadian and i was so happy until now.
So my questions are as follows

1) what would you do to find out if your dvd-rw drive is dying ?

2) what would you do to find out if it's your dvd-rw drive or your blank dvds which are corrupt

Thx for all the help in advance

**scottydont2841** · 11-06-2006, 10:18 AM

Number 2, get a different top brand DVD-R or borrow one off a friend, id do this to see if it burns then you know if thats the problem or not

dai · 11-06-2006, 11:43 AM

check dma is still enabled
try burning at a slower speed
check your tempretures whilst burning with speedfan
|MG| Free Download - SpeedFan 4.31

11-06-2006, 09:46 AM	#1 (permalink)
unstopabl3 Registered User Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 5 OS: Windows XP Professional	Is My DVD-RW Dying ? Hi long time no see people how are ya'll :) I was hoping i get an opinion from my fellas before i went ahead and screamed at Dell. If anyone remembers about the time when i posted about purchasing a Dell Inspiron 6400 laptop ? Well this issue is related to that laptop. Everything has been running smooth so far until recently i ran into issues. I have burned about 50-100 cds and dvds altogether without any issues but since a few days whenever i burn something i am getting errors at like 80% done status or even 90% done status and it's very frustrating. Although the status window of nero shows 8x speed but it takes like 10 mins to burn a 300 mb file which wasnt the case before. So i think somethings wrong with my DVD-RW drive or mayb it's these new DVD-R's which i bought recently from a warehouse which had a massive sale. I got 100 dvd-r's for like $11 canadian and i was so happy until now. So my questions are as follows 1) what would you do to find out if your dvd-rw drive is dying ? 2) what would you do to find out if it's your dvd-rw drive or your blank dvds which are corrupt Thx for all the help in advance

11-06-2006, 10:18 AM	#2 (permalink)
scottydont2841 TSF Enthusiast Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Bristol, England, UK. Posts: 1,228 OS: Vista Home Premium My System	Number 2, get a different top brand DVD-R or borrow one off a friend, id do this to see if it burns then you know if thats the problem or not __________________ Please use the search function of the website before asking questions, as we may already have answered them. Everest FREE Edition AVG FREE Edition

11-06-2006, 11:43 AM	#3 (permalink)
dai Manager, Hardware Forums Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: west australia Posts: 56,609 OS: win 7 32x 64x rtm	check dma is still enabled try burning at a slower speed check your tempretures whilst burning with speedfan \|MG\| Free Download - SpeedFan 4.31 __________________