LG CD-RW acting up

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threevolve

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Howdy..

I have an LG HL-DT-ST GCE-8483B CDRW drive, and just recently, I have been having some problems with it. I'd like to note that I am a PC repair technician, so any help is appreciated, but you can spare me the noob terminology.

Anyways, on to the issue at hand: In the past few weeks (I have had the drive for about 6 months), whenever I burn an audio CD, the last 30 minutes or so are completely useless to any cd player, includng my Discman, CD-ROM, stereo, car CD receiver, etc. Sound does play from these final 30 minutes or so, but it jumps around from track to track, skips, fuzzes out, etc.

I have reinstalled the drivers for the drive, done a repair install for Windows XP, tried different burning software, and even tried using an ATA adapter PCI card instead of my motherboard's IDE controller. None of these attempts resulted in a solution.

I'm just hoping someone here might have some ideas as to something I haven't thought to try, or if I am better off just buying a new drive.

My PC's specs are as follows:

Biostar M7NCD Motherboard
AMD Athlon XP3200+ Barton
1gb OCSystem.com PC3200 DDR400 RAM (2x512mb)
40GB WDC Caviar UATA133
60GB WDC Caviar UATA133
LG HL-DT-ST GCE-8483B CDRW
Lite-On SOHD-167T DVDROM
nVidia GeForce FX5200
C-Media 8751 Sound Card
Microsoft Windows XP Professional, Service Pack 2


Thanks in advance

Dan
 
I'm not quite sure what could be causing the problem. I think maybe there might be something wrong with the laser? have you tried using different speeds to see if it makes any difference?

also have you tried to flash the drive to the latest version?
 
LG's aren't the most reliable drives anyway...so You'd probably be better off buying a Samsung or Lite-On.

That's unless you don't have the money and want to fix it
 
Hit the nail right on the head, ninja fetus ... if I had the money, I would not have bought an LG drive ... I love my LG mobile phone though ... best reception I have ever got from a mobile. and they make this fridge with a TV built into the outside of the door ... pretty cool stuff.

Anyways, Sniper I will try burning at 32x instead of 48x, and see if that makes any difference.

Thanks for the suggestions! Worst comes to worst, I'll end up going to Rochester Computer Recycling and Repair, and buy a reman'ed drive for $20 :P
 
Maybe its because you're using the overburn feature. Sometimes this will cause the part of the CD overburned to not play well in CD players.
 
Addis, you are my savior :)

Went into prefs for Nero, unchecked 'Enable Overburning', burned a 78 minute Audio CD, every track plays clear as a bell.

Thanks so much! I really appreciate everyone's help (and the fact that I don't have to buy an ew CDRW drive) :)
 
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