any LiteOn 811S owners around?

[Doom9]

I'm having a weird problem with my 811S. Reading CDs and DVDs is no problem, but when I try to burn a disc, my PC freezes somewhere in the process on every 2nd attempt. I started removing any virtual disc drives, AnyDVD, even set the drive back to RPC-2 status but to no avail.

Basically what happens is I start burning, and at some point the drive LED turns orange, and the PC freezes without warning. I thought maybe Nero fucks up again so I started making ISO images and burning them in DVD Decrypter and just when I thought things were finally working again, I also started getting freezes. Sometimes, even reading DVD-Rs that I previously burned leads to freezing (with the same symptom.. LED is steady orange).

I use the latest drive firmware (HS0J I believe) but this has happened with the HS0E as well, and both Nero 6.0x and Nero 6.3.x. My dad got me thinking it might be a heat problem since the drive is in a Shuttle barebone, but I'm not sold to that idea yet.. the system temp is normal and the system is rock stable (7 days of 24/7 encoding should speak for itself), no crashes, no freezes, no anything except for when I'm burning .
Is the 811S very heat sensitive? If so I suspect someone else must've made the same experience.

[Randi]

I've got the same drive, and have not experienced any freezes, cables ok? amd (via shit installed? me not) or intel board (acceleration driver installed?). However writing - (minus) disks seems nearly impossible, and even + fucks up sometimes, german CT is also not very fond of this drive (not my fault, i wanted a plextor for xmas, was too expensive for my father :-) )

Randi

[sarahjh69]

I have a Liteon 811s.......no probs at all...except won't write to Mirror.
I also have a NEC 2500a.......no problems at all. No better than the Liteon.

maybe your liteon is broken....have you tried it in another PC??

[Doom9]

actually.. I've figured it out a few weeks ago. It's not the burner.. it's the PC/Windows. I put my old burner back in with which I never had any problems.. and after 3 freezes I gave up burning for the moment. When I have nothing better to do I'll reinstall and see.

[DDogg]

I've run into the same problem with a new 811S I just received. Doom9, do you now have any more information on what causes the problem for you?

[Doom9]

well.. I've gone to such radical measures as to delete the IDE controler in the control panel and putting the old burner back in but with no joy. For some time I thought burning images would work but eventually even that turned out to not be true. Yesterday I reinstalled Windows (this is a really old installation, almost 1 year), then burned 5 SVCDs (cue/bin) in a row with success. Then I switched to DVD-R, upon which I got 2 new freezes. Then I started making ISO images with Nero and burn them using DVD Decrypter. That way I have no burned more than a dozen DVD-Rs and DVD+Rs (my HD was really full since I couldn't burn anymore since I got the new burner). I've also just burned 3 CD-Rs the normal way (no images, directly from Nero). Unfortunately I can't quite pinpoint the problem.. could be Nero 6.3x, I made to upgrade to that version around the time, could be the replacement barebone. At least now I can burn even though it's not as painless as it used to be.

[sarahjh69]

I just put DvDXcopy on my pc
and it started doing the same thing...I suspect the paffin-c???
drivers of completely screwing up my system....can't delete em...
They only interact with DVD not cd so that would explain why cdr still works....insert a blank Dvdr and everything freezes.
Just deleted windoze and reinstalled from scratch.
Everything works again now..