my lg Burner

I have a LG GH24NS95 Burner and it was bought last year august.
My problem is that I can't burn DL DVD's. I use Nero 6 for ALL my burning needs. My burner is DL capable (already checked on that) but I just can't seem to burn on an 8.5 GB dvd! It starts out good with "layer 1" burns to 47% and then jumps to 100% and also the puffer/status at the bottom of the program switches from active to failed
Is my burner already broken?

 

buffer i mean. under buffer level is a bar with % and recorder state which is active with burning layer 1.... it seems it can't do layer 2
It's not the dvd's coz I have a seconder burner (samsung) and that works with DL burning...

 

Along with what DavidGP stated, what brand of DL media are you using? Some brands of media aren't compatible with all burners. As an example, I and others have had issues with Memorex media. I've gone to Verbatim which have worked with my NEC, Sony Optiarc and LG burners.

 

Hi, I'm using the brand TDK. Are there any known problems with that brand and LG burners?

 

Do you mean OS? Then that's XP and SP3!
On my motherboard it's not sharing, with my power supply it is sharing, I only have 4 SATA power plugs, 2 are used for harddrives and the other 2 are for my 2 burners.
Only have Nero installed. Nero does everything i need to do and i've never had a problem with it.
I did the first link and it works now. Just burned a DL in my LG burner
I'm a happy camper now so thank you very much DavidGP for your help

 

Hi,
I got the problem again. I just don't know what happened. After last time since i did that "fix it" program everything worked just fine.
And now I wanted to burn a DL disk and the first disk failed I did that program but after 3 attempts I still can't fix it!
Any advice?!

 

Does it have the latest firmware?
http://www.lg.com/us/support-product/lg-GH24NS95

 

yes, it has the latest.

 

Try Imgburn. It is a free and good burning software. You can download it from here at majorgeeks or from their website which I linked.

This will determine if your software has any part to play in your dilemma.

 

I've had that program installed but it just wasn't useable for me. It was just a bit to technical. I like programms that are easy. Like when i add a file I would like to know how much space I still have left and I couldn't see that. And then when i did something (can't remember what it was - but it was something that I needed to click on) it asked if I would want to add it to an image.. Don't know what that is. so I don't know what to click on for that question. It's just not an easy understandable program for me.
And it can't be nero coz I have 2 burners plugged in, the other one is a Samsung and that one burns a DL disk just fine (did 2 just in the last hour) and up to last week my LG burner did burn DL disks without a problem and while using Nero! The LG one still burns normal dvds (4.7GB) and cds just fine and reads them just fine. It also reads a DL disk without a problem. With my nero program I have also the test drive (from nero) and there's a tab there to test the disk, I use it to see if all the data on the disk is readable (if not I reburn the disk so it's readable again) and I tested it on both of the DL disks that I burned today. Everything works just not the writting part..
But still thank you for the advise.

 

Just to recap, you are using windows xp sp3, you have reset your burning limits via DavidGP's link, your LG GH24NS95 Burner has the latest firmware. For burning, you are using nero 6 and TDK. And your problem is the LG burner will not burn the second layer of your discs anymore.

I know you confirmed above that you believe it not to be a power problem, but have you tried physically disconnecting the power connectors from the other drives and turning them off in the bios if needed, and then booting up and try burning again?

You can also try a burning simulation which nero allows, (not sure if 6 does it or not), but that will allow you simulate burning without wasting discs and also check if the simulation goes through. If it does, you can then try burning a real disc and see if it works.

 

Your recap is all correct. That is my problem.
Which drives exactly? My power supply only has 2 cables coming out of it to power sata devices (so 2 cables with each 2 plugs on them - 4 devices I can have installed at the same time) and just from the length of the 2 plugs on one cable I only have the one option and that is to have both harddisks on the one cable and the 2 burners on the other.
So I should unplug the samsung one and look in bios if it is still there? then start pc normally and test the LG burner then? Ah, with DL disks the simulation test burning is sadly not an option otherwise I would not of wasted 3 disks. The Simulation is only for cds and dvds with the size 4.7GB...

 

Apparently, all of your drives are internal and all SATA. Since SATA drives sit one per cable, have you tried swapping/replacing the SATA cable to the LG drive? Cables are the weakest AND cheapest link and are subject to failure.

 

I was referring to removing the power from the other drive, the samsung. And maybe even your secondary hard drive if you can spare it.

 

I'm gonna reply to the both of you at the same time

So, I think my pc is being mean to me. I just switched the sata cables - the ones that you plug in the mainboard - the one that was in the samsung is now in the lg and the one that was in the lg one is now in the samsung... The samsung still works and the lg now works too! Can someone explain that to me? Like I said, no new cables were used, just the sames ones swapped!

 

More than likely the cables are properly seated now. However, there may be a break or short in the cable that's now connected to the Samsung and if it's moved in the slightest, you'll end up with the same problem on the Samsung that you had on the LG. I'd get replacement cables for both. They're inexpensive enough.

 

Already have spare cables just in case.
got a question: a friend gave me an adapter he has so many he thought I could use it. It's for the power suply, I have 2 cables not in use at all and the adapter would fit on the thing with the 4 big circles and it would give me 2 sata plugs then. If I unplugged one of the burners could I use the adapter? Or will it blow up my pc?

Thanks for all your help btw

 

The cable with the "4 big circles is what's called a Molex cable for power supply. Whether it would "blow up" your computer would depend on your PSU (Power Supply Unit). If it's 450 watts or higher, you may be safe. Less than that (say 250 watts) and you run the risk of overtaxing and burning out the PSU.

 

Ah, I have 430 Watts! Would that still work or not? I'm not gonna test it out now just in case it does break my PSU but If my burner gives me any more problems then I'll test it out. And if it does break then I have a reason to buy new parts for my pc! PSU is easy I've already looked around but I always have problems with the Mainboard, CPU and RAM. Finding parts that are to be together is not always easy - if took me 4 months last time round.

Thank you anyway for your help. When it comes to problems with my pc I suck. As you can tell I called a Molex cable "4 big circles"....

 

430 watts is ample.

You may even be able to put a "higher end" graphics card in — but, that's another discussion altogether. I'm curious as to why you've had problems with the mobo, CPU and RAM. Do you have cooling issues?

 

With the mainboard the onboard graphics and sound card is enough for me. I'm not a gamer. I do play games but there HNO games or time management. Small games like those. Or older games like Unreal Tournament, Quake or Black&White. And those games since they are so old the onboard graphics is enough. Otherwise I watch my tv series or Movies, listen to music... nothing that requires really good graphics or sound...

My "problems" that I was refering to was not in that sense that I had problems with those parts, it was more along the line... to explain I'll have to write a bit.
This pc now is my first ever pc that i paid for and really belongs to me, before this one I got my brothers pc which was probably already 10 years old (maybe even older) and he did at some point update his pc (new motherboard, cpu...) and the old stuff he gave my dad and my dad then gave me his old parts... Since I never really needed a, how would you say, really good pc I always got the hand-me-downs and it always was enough for me and for what I did and the parts were always a bit better than what I already had. That Pc was falling apart (harddisk was the old plug not sata but old plug and also it only had 80GB) so I wanted a new pc, the whole thing even the outside the metal thing where the parts go in (as you can see I suck at technical terms)... And the first thing was to figure out which mobo I wanted and since my brother wouldn't help me (since it doesn't help him in anyway) I had to do "Homework" and figure out what all the abbreviations meant (my dad helped a bit but he doesn't follow in all the new computer bits and all the new releases - he's not a gamer either)... After figuering out which mobo then I looked at the other stuff... As you know you can't just put any CPU in the mobo or RAM..
Sorry about the long text!!!!

A friend a few years ago said "newer the technology is the faster it craps out on you" and I think that is spot on. That old pc lasted a good 15 years and the only thing that broke was the harddisk (I bought 80GB but the original one was only 40GB).


But now I do think I have something wrong with one or more of those parts... My pc is really slow again.. It's happened twice before and the only thing that helped was installing XP again.. And the next time I do that or any OS is with new parts.. And I've used every free program that I read on help sites about slow pc's and every test has come back ok. nothing broken, everything working fine... no viruses, no malware, no trojans... It's not lack of space C drive has 195GB and free space is 183GB... so I'm only using 12GB...
But I think this all belongs in a different thread!!!

 

IDE/SATA cable is the one from the device to the mainboard? If that's the case then that's done.. Didn't know you could have 2 devices over one cable to the mainboard!!!!
So your saying to unplug the samsung one (coz that is sharing the PSU cable) and to see if that works? I'll try that when the problem happens for a third time...

 

As far as the PC being slow, a couple of things may contribute to that — "junk" files and disk fragmentation. Have you run CCleaner (download from Major Geeks) and/or (the one I use) Auslogics Disk Defrag?

 

Since your connections are IDE/PATA, you can have what's called a Master/Slave configuration on one ribbon cable. The Master would use the connection closest to the motherboard connection and the Slave would use the other connection on the ribbon cable. Note, however, that you cannot mix HDD and Optical drives on the same ribbon cable. They would both have to be optical drives OR HDDs.

 

I've used CCleaner, Smart Defrag... I also have Advanced System Cleaner installed which I use every 2 days. But nothing ever works. Used Gmer to see if I have any rootkits, Antivirus is Avira, zonealarm as Firewall. IObit Malware Fighter, Malwarebytes.. But like I've said, there is never anything found... I scan the disk but it always comes back fine. The only thing that works is a complete reinstall of XP.. It's like it resets everything..I know what a reinstall is so it is logic that everything is "new" but it's just really annoying that every 3-6 months my pc requires it..

 

There are a couple of other items that can slow things down as well.

1.) Prefetch

See this page for how to deal with it. Note: The Registry change needs to be done with regedit.

2.) System Volume Information

Turn it off for all but the System Drive by right clicking My Computer and selecting Properties. Then click on the System Restore tab. Click on the drive(s) you want to turn Monitoring off for and click on the Settings button and place a check mark in "Turn off System Restore on this drive" (see attached). Click OK and confirm.

Turning off the System Restore on your non-OS drives will also save you a ton of space on your hard drives. We had one poster here who's System Volume Information folder had swelled to 232 GB! :eek

 

Ok, did 1 and I followed everything on that page. I'll see what that does and with point 2 I only turned it off on my second harddisk.

Do you know anything about Mainboards, CPU's and RAM? I'm really thinking of getting a new Mainboard and CPU. Mainboard I'm looking at ASUS models, my current and old one were/are both Asus and so far I've been very happy with that brand.
If you do know anything about that, i would gladly write down some of the things what I would want and have to have. Also I'll tell you what I use my pc for.. so you would know what I don't need... If you don't know anything no problem. I'll open a new thread... That's probably for the best any way.. I'll get more options...

 

Turning off the second hard disk was the right one. Also, if you connect any by USB, you'd need to turn them off as well.

As far as Prefetch, I had to work on that for both my XP drive and my Vista drive. I cleared the folders, set the Registry value to 2 (boot) and restarted my computer. It's made a significant difference in the amount of time from Start to Desktop.

Unfortunately, for mainboards, CPUs and RAM, my knowledge is rather limited. Perhaps a new thread in the hardware section is warranted.

 

Don't have any via usb.. everythings internal
I set it to 2 aswell, and as the site said one could just delete everything in the folder because it will all come back after loading the program just the first time would be long BUT sadly it hasn't done anything... yesterday I used all the programs that I would normally use, restarted my system but still it's slow.
Well I opened a thread yesterday, there's no anser yet but don't expect something like that to be fast...