2 BD Burners Fail at DVDs

ChipGallo wrote on 7/6/2011, 1:29 PM
I have been happily burning DVDs for several years with DVDA 5.x (now 5.2) and ImageBurn. Recently the BD bug got me and I bought an Asus BW-12B1LT burner and replaced my trusty Pioneer.

BDs burn just fine but regular DVD burning has become unreliable. Only 1 out of 4 is successful. The others fail with an error about an illegal address being used (the exact error is written down at home). I put the old DVD burner in and it worked fine. RMA'd the Asus and got a Pioneer 206 BD burner. It burned one DVD just fine, then stopped at 30% on the 2nd and DVDA never recovered. Had to kill it with Task Manager.

This system was upgraded from Windows XP Pro to 64 bit Ultimate Windows 7 back in the spring. Other weirdness has resulted from that: the DVD labeling software fails to load DVDs in the HP 5580 printer; something I attribute to an out-of-date printer driver.

ImageBurn fails on the Asus BD burner too, but I haven't tried it yet with the new Pioneer. Wondering if DVDA and/or Windows 7 are the culprits ...

Comments

PeterDuke wrote on 7/6/2011, 5:04 PM
Have you installed the latest burner driver for your version of Windows?
Steve Grisetti wrote on 7/7/2011, 5:20 AM
The other issue is that you went from a 32-bit operating system to a 64-bit operating system. So it could be that there either is no 64-bit driver for your drive or that your 32-bit programs are having problems interfacing with the 64-bit driver.

In any event, Peter's suggestion may help. Go to your drive manufacturer's web site (don't trust Windows Update to do it) and find the latest Windows 7 64-bit driver for that disk drive.

If you can't find one, you may need to replace the drive with one compatible with your new operating system.
ChipGallo wrote on 7/7/2011, 6:11 AM
I'll check out the burner driver and also if there is a firmware update for the burner itself. My past experience with drivers is it works or it doesn't, not that it works 25% of the time. This computer is dual boot and has the 32 bit OS, allowing comparisons to the 64 bit OS. I already know that the HP 5580 printer is not properly managed by the label printing software on the 64 bit side.
ChipGallo wrote on 7/8/2011, 8:57 AM
There was a burner firmware update from 1.05 to 1.06, on Firmware HQ. No luck in finding Win 7 updates. What I have is:

(all in the system32\drivers directory)

1. Microsoft v6.1.77600.16385 (win7_rtm_090713-1255) as cdrom.sys
2. Cyberlink Co Ltd 5.0.0.6420 as CLBStor.sys
3. Sonic Solutions 3.00.90.2 (signed as MS HAL) as PxHlpa64.sys
Steve Mann wrote on 7/8/2011, 6:46 PM
Vista drivers often work well with Win 7.