Damn fucking CD burner
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Yesterday I bought a new Benq 20X CD Burner. First two CD write attempts failed. 2 CDs lost. Then luckily James Johnson gave me those tips about DMA and I managed to write one CD. From 7 other attempts [I bought only 10 CDRs] 5 more failed, 2 were successful. Means 30% success rate. Blasted sick stupid mother fucking CD burner!!!!!!! I am taking the damn prick bastard back tomorrow and getting some other brand CD writer. Imagine this happening to me!!! Why me??????? Every single fucking time!!!!!!!!!!! It's gotta happen to me!!!!!!! 1.1 Billion people in India and yet I am chosen out for all these special happenings!!!!!!!! Crazyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!!!! grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr :mad: :mad: :mad:
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:(( Hopefully the media is the problem and not the drive :) James Sonork: Hasaki "I left there in the morning with their God tucked underneath my arm their half-assed smiles and the book of rules. So I asked this God a question and by way of firm reply, He said - I'm not the kind you have to wind up on Sundays." "Wind Up" from Aqualung, Jethro Tull 1971
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Mike Mullikin wrote: Also, don't discount the possibility that the burner may be OK and the blank CD's may be crap. I tried to console myself with that possibility, but somehow the probabilities for 7 CDRs out of 10 CDRs being crappy were so low that despite my sincere attempts, I failed to convince myself as to the absolute well-being of my CD Writer. Nish
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Hey Nish - I've had a box of 10 dud disks, and I know a bunch of guys who've had the same. It's frustrating but it happens. You'll find that eventually you'll settle on a brand of CD that works for you and then go to ridiculous lengths to ensure you only use that brand for fear of the dreaded coffee coaster. AND - if you do create dead disks then stick them in the microwave for 5 seconds and watch :D cheers, Chris Maunder
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Hey Nish - I've had a box of 10 dud disks, and I know a bunch of guys who've had the same. It's frustrating but it happens. You'll find that eventually you'll settle on a brand of CD that works for you and then go to ridiculous lengths to ensure you only use that brand for fear of the dreaded coffee coaster. AND - if you do create dead disks then stick them in the microwave for 5 seconds and watch :D cheers, Chris Maunder
Chris Maunder wrote: AND - if you do create dead disks then stick them in the microwave for 5 seconds and watch Put a bunch of college guys in a room doing that and you have entertainment for hours, and some nice decorations to boot :-P James Sonork: Hasaki "I left there in the morning with their God tucked underneath my arm their half-assed smiles and the book of rules. So I asked this God a question and by way of firm reply, He said - I'm not the kind you have to wind up on Sundays." "Wind Up" from Aqualung, Jethro Tull 1971
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Hey Nish - I've had a box of 10 dud disks, and I know a bunch of guys who've had the same. It's frustrating but it happens. You'll find that eventually you'll settle on a brand of CD that works for you and then go to ridiculous lengths to ensure you only use that brand for fear of the dreaded coffee coaster. AND - if you do create dead disks then stick them in the microwave for 5 seconds and watch :D cheers, Chris Maunder
Did you ever see Clarkson? It was a British TV show hosted by Jeremy Clarkson - a character much like John Simmons I guess :-D. Anyway, he had a section of show devoted to doing really insane stuff like that - like this one time (not at band camp) he set a home made rocket off in the studio, blew up a washing machine, and (how exactly it was done I can't remember) blew up his microwave. -- Andrew.
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:(( Hopefully the media is the problem and not the drive :) James Sonork: Hasaki "I left there in the morning with their God tucked underneath my arm their half-assed smiles and the book of rules. So I asked this God a question and by way of firm reply, He said - I'm not the kind you have to wind up on Sundays." "Wind Up" from Aqualung, Jethro Tull 1971
James T. Johnson wrote: Hopefully the media is the problem and not the drive Hi James Just woke up now. 6:23 AM. This is my plan for today. In the evening I'll buy some higher quality CDRs and try burning a few CDs. If that fails too, then I'll swap by burner brand for something else. I am feeling quite dull now though. Losing 7 CDs is bad. But more than that, I am shattered by the experience of watching all those failed attempts live. The wasted anticipations and the mammoth frustrations each time a write-attempt fails is terrible. Plus the 3 CDs that I wrote worry me now. Cause after I wrote them and tested that they were okay, I delete the original contents from my hard disk. Now I am worried these 3 will also fuse out on me randomly. Nish
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I am running Windows 2000 professional SP2. I am not using Easy CD creator. I am using Nero Burning ROM software that came with my CD writer. I have enabled DMA for all my IDE channels. I have connected the CD writer as primary slave. The CD writer is a Benq 20X Write/10 X ReWrite 40X Read drive. http://www.benq.com The 10 CDRs [of which 7 now occupy the waste basket] were Acer CDRs [the cover says 1X~24X] On two occasions the entire burn process finished, I got an okay message, the CD ejected, but I could not read from them. The drives [the burner and my old CD drive[ refused to even recognize them as CDs. Nish
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Nish [BusterBoy] wrote: I have connected the CD writer as primary slave. Oops... Not a good move, Nish. Make it the secondary master, and move the regular CD to the slave slot. You'll like that a lot better.
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Hey Nish - I've had a box of 10 dud disks, and I know a bunch of guys who've had the same. It's frustrating but it happens. You'll find that eventually you'll settle on a brand of CD that works for you and then go to ridiculous lengths to ensure you only use that brand for fear of the dreaded coffee coaster. AND - if you do create dead disks then stick them in the microwave for 5 seconds and watch :D cheers, Chris Maunder
Chris Maunder wrote: if you do create dead disks then stick them in the microwave for 5 seconds and watch That's a little rough on the ol' magnetron tube, Chris:-D But for entertainment, I've been working on a use for bad CDs - like the ones AOL sends me to level the furniture. We have a contest every July involving frying an egg on the sidewalk at noon. I'm certain I can design a solar concentrator made of CDs - "Powered by AOL"! Something similar might be done with CD-Rs, though it would take more of them.
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James T. Johnson wrote: Hopefully the media is the problem and not the drive Hi James Just woke up now. 6:23 AM. This is my plan for today. In the evening I'll buy some higher quality CDRs and try burning a few CDs. If that fails too, then I'll swap by burner brand for something else. I am feeling quite dull now though. Losing 7 CDs is bad. But more than that, I am shattered by the experience of watching all those failed attempts live. The wasted anticipations and the mammoth frustrations each time a write-attempt fails is terrible. Plus the 3 CDs that I wrote worry me now. Cause after I wrote them and tested that they were okay, I delete the original contents from my hard disk. Now I am worried these 3 will also fuse out on me randomly. Nish
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Check your sonork, good news awaits :) James Sonork: Hasaki "I left there in the morning with their God tucked underneath my arm their half-assed smiles and the book of rules. So I asked this God a question and by way of firm reply, He said - I'm not the kind you have to wind up on Sundays." "Wind Up" from Aqualung, Jethro Tull 1971
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Hey Nish - I've had a box of 10 dud disks, and I know a bunch of guys who've had the same. It's frustrating but it happens. You'll find that eventually you'll settle on a brand of CD that works for you and then go to ridiculous lengths to ensure you only use that brand for fear of the dreaded coffee coaster. AND - if you do create dead disks then stick them in the microwave for 5 seconds and watch :D cheers, Chris Maunder
Chris Maunder wrote: create dead disks then stick them in the microwave for 5 seconds and watch Can this damage the microwave? It sounds like it's worth a go, but I don't want to harm the machine that warms up my coffee. :-D "There is a fine line between lunacy and genius; it is my goal in life to keep them guessing just where the line lies..." -- Unknown
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Chris Maunder wrote: create dead disks then stick them in the microwave for 5 seconds and watch Can this damage the microwave? It sounds like it's worth a go, but I don't want to harm the machine that warms up my coffee. :-D "There is a fine line between lunacy and genius; it is my goal in life to keep them guessing just where the line lies..." -- Unknown
Daniel Ferguson wrote: but I don't want to harm the machine that warms up my coffee. Recently I discovered that you can make popcorn in the same microwave :-) Regardz Colin J Davies
Sonork ID 100.9197:Colin
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P-III 800 MHz/256 MB RAM 16 GB IBM UDMA-II HDD And I was writing at 4X [the lowest allowed speed I could get] Nish
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One more thing, did you create a cd image first or did you burn on the fly? If you did on-the-fly burning you might want try creating an image (.nrg) first, and burning that. Maybe defragging the image as well might be a good idea. I use Contig from SysInternals for this. Bruce Duncan CP#9088, CPUA 0xA1EE, Sonork 100.10030
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Daniel Ferguson wrote: but I don't want to harm the machine that warms up my coffee. Recently I discovered that you can make popcorn in the same microwave :-) Regardz Colin J Davies
Sonork ID 100.9197:Colin
I think it's interesting that we often qu-ote each other in our sigs and attribute the qu-otes to "The Lounge". --- Daniel Fergusson, "The Lounge"
Yeah, I've done that from time to time. It's much easier than trying to make popcorn in a pan with oil or one of those noisy blower things. When I'm at the grocery store I forget to buy more though. I don't use my microwave for real food though, as it tastes like crap. "There is a fine line between lunacy and genius; it is my goal in life to keep them guessing just where the line lies..." -- Unknown