I've got a bit of a problem here. I got a Benq 1620 DVD-RW drive. My system is a thunderbird 1200 with 768 ram on an Asus A7V motherboard with built in promise ATA100 controller card.
Problem is when I first put the burner in I was not able to make a successful CD or DVD (keep getting write errors) until I loaded the latest firmware into the drive. However I still had the same problem I have now. When I try to burn a DVD in nero the computer crashes and just freezes. about the time it says checking media, normally the nero timer has counted to a few seconds. I can do cd's fine using nero. Nero version is 6.6.0.3. I can't use an older version because the drive is not supported. Dvds will burn fine in Sonic easy record software that came with the drive, but too much software uses nero like dvd shrink. I've tried changing from the promise card to the regular IDE channels and using the proper 80-conductor cable on the promise card. I’ve tried just this drive on it’s own channel with all other cd/ dvd drives unplugged.
I tried the drive in another computer and it works with nero just fine. So I thought there must be some software problem. I formatted the Hard drive and installed windows XP with SP2, VIA 4in1, and nero 6.6.0.3. and got the same problem. I've reset the BOIS settings and I believe it is the latest bios version acording to ASUS’s web site.
What else could be the problem.
New dvd drive crashes Nero
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