DVD Burning on laptop

[crjackson]

I've been burning DVD movies flawlessly on my desktop for years. Recently I purchased a Athlon 64 3200+ laptop with a liteon DVD burner. I ripped and burned a movie only to find that on topset playback, the movie would pause, and show a scrambled (digital blocks) every 30 seconds or so (not at regular intervals). I upgraded the memory to 1.25GB, and installed a 7200rpm HD to speed things up. I installed the latest verson of NERO. I tried again to find that things were better than before (same movie LOTR), but the problems are still there (just not as often). I decided to turn off the generic write contro in NERO and tested again. I thought it was a perfect burn, but about 45 minutes inot the movie, the errors returned.

Does anyone know what the problem could be? I forgot to mention that DMA is turned on for all drives. The new HD (Hitachi Travelstar7k60 w/8mb cache) is markedly faster than the stock Hitachi Travelstar 4200rpm drive. The buffer level never drops below 96% while burning. If it's not a problem with the burner it's self, then I don't have a clue what to try next.

Any suggestions appriciated.

Thanks,

-crjackson

[Dimmer]

See my other post on the subject, maybe it'll help you:
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=78228

[gooki]

Start by getting the latest firmware for your writer