I have recently bought a Sony DWU14A from Simply Computers for £25. Unfortuantely I have been unable to burn any DVDs or CDRS. All that happens is that it gets to around 16% then it says that ther was a write failure. I am currently running this on a AMD 64 3000 with 1GB Ram and Windows XP SP2. My old CD writer works fine and the CDRS I used were up 52X and then DVDRs were up to 4X, though I tried to burn at 2X. The only success I had was when I burned a small document to a CDR. Also the drive does read. I have tried to lower the speed and adjust the IDE channels but have had no success. I also updated the drive with all updates available from Sony, but no success. I can now only suggest that the drive is faulty. I cannot think it is the disks as I have had no problems before. Any ideas or is this faulty?
Would you happen to be running an nForce 3 motherboard? The reason I'm asking is that nVidia's IDE driver is known to cause trouble like this with CD and DVD burners (this can affect the NF2 as well)
Well for me what I ended up doing was uninstalling the nForce IDE drive and using the Standard IDE driver. It's a generic controller that works with any IDE controller. Install that and reboot. Now search for nvide.nvu and delete all instances of it.
Cheers I will give that a go, hopefully I wont have to return the drive as I feel that will be more difficult than fixing this problem. Also, do I search for nvide.nvu in the windows search function and then just delete all instances from there?
Yup. Just do the search and delete any that come up...but do this after you change IDE drivers or Windows will be barking at you.
I rolled back the IDE controllers and deleted all instances of the drivers but still I am unable to write. I have also changed the transfer mode down to PIO but no success, any ideas or should I just return it an get another one?
You could try it, just to make sure it's not the problem. I'm not totally conviced it is based on my experiences with the nForce drivers, but it'll help narrow down things if there's still a problem. http://www.nforcershq.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=29265 That link has some links at nForcers HQ that may prove useful. You may want to browse that forum and see what you can come up with.
