question from a friend

[lagger]

got the following email today and really am at a loss here in regard to helping any ideas or suggestions will be passed along if you can help
Thanks
Lagger

I just made 5 coasters and I can't figure what I'm doing wrong. I'm trying to burn some AVI files to CD-R and the data verification fails every time. I tried it at 24x at first, but then went down to 16x, then another brand of media at 16x, then 4x, then I installed Roxio 5.1.1 Basic and none of this helped. None of the files copied properly. Don't get me wrong, they still copied, and you can view the AVI files, but they are more pixelated and have far more errors than the originals on the hard drive. This occurs even when you copy the files back onto the hard drive and play them from there. I had loaded the Nero installation software as well as the newest DiVX player and they too didn't copy properly according to Nero's Data Verification. Oh, and btw, by the third attempt (16x different media) I had already rebooted my computer and close every single program on my PC before doing the burn. Any ideas?

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[btvillarin]

Why did he just have 5 coaster all of a sudden? Did he switch CDR brands when it was working before? Also, what kind of CD writer does he have? Maybe he needs a firmware update or something.

Still thinking, though....

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[phsstpok]

Just a stab in the dark. Does this person have a motherboard with a Via chipset, and specifically one with the 686B southbridge? If he/she does, he/she might be experiencing the data corruption bug. The fix would be the PCI Latency Patch by George Breese. You can read about both at Viahardware.com. Late versions of the Via 4-in-1 drivers (4.32 and later) are also supposed to fix the problem.

I couldn't find the article that I'm thinking of but the link below leads to a summary article.

<A HREF="http://www.viahardware.com/686bfaq.shtm#_Toc518065962" target="_new">http://www.viahardware.com/686bfaq.shtm#_Toc518065962</A>


<b>I have so many cookies I now have a FAT problem!</b><P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by phsstpok on 05/13/02 04:27 PM.</EM></FONT></P>