A03 just stopped working

[bezerk]

Hi

My A03 just stopped working, I haven't got a clue why.
When I try to burn in dvddecrypter I get strange error instantly after pressing go (burn) button, in prassi primo dvd same thing happens, error -10 at sector 16, could not reserve track ?!!?
my a03 is primary master (HD's are on raid) and it has allways been master with DMA on, I haven't switched media or anything like it, even tried to put pioneer in PIO, same error, hmm... really haven't got a clue, never really had any problems, except with bulkcrap media which burned but didn't work, but now error insantly after pressing GO. Did system restore, installed forceASPI, nothing helps, It can read DVDs normally so I guess it's not dead. :(

[Octagon]

Reinstall Primo DVd player. It has self corrupted itself. Its happened to me before. MAKE SURE YOU RESTART after uninstall of primo. Then reinstall. If its still giving you shit. Do a reformat. Don't use a ghost image or some other crap either. Then you will see if its truly busted or not. good luck and hope it doesn't happen to my AO3.:eek:

[klona]

To check if hardware failed, get Symantec Ghost, do an image of your system partition, format, clean install and text.
In 3 min you will come back to your previous system with ghost, but you will know at this step if this is soft or hard problem

[bezerk]

thanks, for suggestions.

I did clean install of XP, installed primo and dvddecrypter.
The thing is:
1. I can burn everything at 1x, without any problems.
2. I can't burn anything at 2x, nothnig
3. If I try to write write at 1x after failing at 2x, same error,
I have to reboot to be able to burn at 1x again.

I use the exact same media datawrite and Ritek G03, from same batch, that I used before without any problems. So now I know.

1. it's absolutely NOT media
2. Pioneer is not dead at least not completly dead.
3. I have abxolutely no clue what is going on.

I upgraded to latest 2.00 2x4all, no difference, same poblems.

I'm gonna try cleaning the lens if nobody else has better idea,
it worked for my m8 dipper ;) with kind of similar !?? problem

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=37178&highlight=a03+AND+cant

[bezerk]

I burned 10 or so disks at 1x, ripped in dvd 116 without any errors, so obviously A03 is working.
hmmmmmmmm....

[bezerk]

The trick from my m8 dipper did it, I cleaned the lens and now A03
works at 2x again, unbeliveable :D