Hi, recently put together a system complete with a liteon cd burner. Problem is, I can't burn cds. I can read them fine, but can't burn them. I've tried Nero, Win MEDIA, and the BUILT in XP burning program, and I do have finalize disk checked. Here's what's HAPPENING- The cd "burns successfully", and even appears to have burnt successfully judging by the burn lines on the disc, which are even and well defined. When burning an audio cd the disk just does NOT want to play in any cd player. It will, however, play every once in a while but will start skipping more(even skips in the backround) as it starts getting towards the higher tracks. It isn't the cd player because I have older, scratched up cds that play fine, using the same exact media brand.
One thing that might possibly be the cause, or is at least suspicious to me, is that the cd burner is listed as IDE master in channel 0. Channel 0? There isn't even a channel 1 listed in my bios, and my SATA drive is listed under IDE master in channel 2. I can't change these settings. I also had this problem with a different cd burner from my old computer after I switched out the motherboard. This leads me to believe that there might be a setting in BIOS that I need to adjust. I also cannot find a firmware upgrade for my burner..but it should at least burn cds RIGHT? Haven't been able to burn cds for a few months now between the 2 SYSTEMS. Finally decided to ask for help, thanks in advance.I'm not sure about the hardware aspects of this, but...what speed are you burning at? I experiened similar problems from burning too fast. Try a slower speed like 16x or even 8x. Any difference?You could switch it to IDE1 but i doubt it will make a difference...
I would borrow/buy one CD of as many different brands of blank media one at a time til i found which ones work...