System Freeze During Burn....Help needed!!

[JimPeplinski]

I have recently installed a Pioneer-A06U and am trying to burn DVDs without success. I have tried Nero, Decrypter, Alcohol, etc... Every time I try to burn the system freezes, even when doing a test burn. We are talking full system freeze. I've checked CPU temps, switched master/slave, upgraded the firmware on the drive, and still the same response. My CPU is sitting on about 45 degrees. My system is composed of:

Athlon 1600 XP
Gigabyte 7N400-L1 M/B
512MB Kingston DDR Dual Channel RAM
GeForce2 MX 400 64MB Display Card
LG 52X CDROM
Pioneer A06U DVD Writer

Any help would be great, it's making me crazy.......

 

[Duracell]

Hi JimPeplinski, Welcome to our forum!

please look into this thread, your motherboard does have the same chipset, maybe the same problem: http://www.dvdrbase.com/showthread.php?p=203623

and it might be usefull to kill your current ASPI layer by using ForceASPI;
see here: http://www.dvdrbase.com/showthread.php?t=32137

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[Coaster]

@ JimPeplinski,

Perchance have you insured that you don’t have any memory manager, power scheme, and/or screensaver software running in the background?

Regards,
Coaster

 

[JimPeplinski]

@ JimPeplinski,

Perchance have you insured that you don’t have any memory manager, power scheme, and/or screensaver software running in the background?

Regards,
Coaster

There aren't any other power/memory managers running at all. I always shut as much down as I can before I burn. The lockups happen at random times during test-burn or real burn. It can read CD/DVDs fine. Doesn't like the writing part.

 

[scarecrow]

Might well be another issue with the Nforce2 chipset your mobo uses- I know that many people had problems making it serving properly Atapi devices. Shut down your firewall and antivirus, and install the latest set of Nvidia busmastering drivers- they might do you a favour... After installing and rebooting, check via control panel/device manager if your Atapi devices operate as UDMA mode2 devices, and not as PIO mode4 ones.
Also you could try replacing a 80-lead wire that connects your burner and CD-ROM with an old 40-wire one- it seems that the crosstalk the 80-wire cables are handling is not particularly well liked by several Atapi devices, and they prefer the old, trustee controls. Positioning on the IDE ribbon is of no importance with 40-wire cables, just get sure your connected devices are jumpered as "master" and "slave", none of them as "cable select".

 

[Laz]

Agree with scarecrow that it most prolly is the Nforece 2 chipset but here is another thing to try first that seems crucial with the A06/106.

Is it set as "Master" on the IDE channel? For some reason this seems to be crucial with this drive, many people on forums have had similar problems to you just because this drive does not like being the "Slave" device on a channel.

I have both an A05 & A06 and there seems to be no such problem with the A05 and I have that running as slave on my main system but the A06 when I've tried testing it as Slave just will not play ball. Also, always use 40-wire IDE cables for all CD/DVD drives in a system as scarecrow also says.

Worth checking before you proceed with anything else as it could be that simple.

 

[SIHOLLIES]

I have just sorted the same problem out, but on an ABIT board.

Whenever i tried burning, it got to about 20 - 30% then froze.
I found the problem to be the fan on the mobo was sticking at time, causing a overheat.
Try running sisandra to se if there is a temperature problem anywhere?

good luck mate,

keep us informed

si

 

[JimPeplinski]

Error Message from Decrypter

I have updated ASPI layer, DVD writer is set to Secondary Master, am using a 40 pin IDE cable, and I just installed the nVidia IDE package. I made an image with DVD Decrypter of Grand Theft Auto and tried to burn it. This error message came up 18% of the way into test-burn:

I/O Error
Device: [0:0:0] Pioneer DVD-RW

ScsiStatus:0x02
Interpretation:Check Condition

CDB:2A 00 00 05 BA 50 00 00 10 00
Interpretation:Write (10) -Sectors:375376-375391

Sense Area:70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0E 00 00 00 00 21 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Interpretation:Invalid Address For Write

Is this a RAM issue? I cancelled the test burn and it froze one more time just to let me know it loves me.

Thanks for the help so far guys!

 

[scarecrow]

It's a datastream piping problem, which should be attributed (again) almost certainly to buggy busmastering... All I can say is that I feel lucky I never bought that Nforce mobo I was eyeing...
All I can suggest is forgettting burning with Decrypter and ASPI for the moment, and trying another application with it's own control interface, eg Nero, RecordNow, Instant CD/DVD... It might get better than that.

 

[JimPeplinski]

Problem sorta solved

Well, Nero works. I guess it is my dumbass chipset, what a dissapointment. Oh well, burned a DVD successfully, all is good.

Thanks for everyone's input, I appreciate the help.

 

[The-poacher]

Nice one