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Out of 50 CDs, 32 were bad burns.

post #1 of 7
4/3/04 at 7:16am
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What happens is my computer just suddenly restarts when I'm burning. I dont't have INCD installed and never installed it too. I thought that Roxio Ez-Media Creator would work better than NERO but it's just slightly less bad.

Im burning with like nothing else running either and my computer still just like suddenly restarts without warning. This only happens when I'm burning my CDs.

Alot of the 5680 owners I have talked to are having this same problem. What can we do? Are there any drivers we can get?
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post #2 of 7
4/3/04 at 4:50pm

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you didn't mention the OS.

Random reboots are often caused by heat, but in windows xp, a system error of some sort will reboot your machine...this reboot prevents you from seeing the error message, however.

Check your event viewer (control panel, Administrative Tools for XP) and see if it caught anything

Also, reset the configuration that reboots your machine. Right click MY COMPUTER, choose PROPERTIES, select ADVANCED TAB, then under START UP and RECOVER, choose SETTINGS and uncheck AUTOMATICALLY RESTART in the SYSTEM FAILURE section. Now, next time you crash, you will get a wonderful BSOD that will tell you where the error occured.

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Also, burn at a slower speed

and, is this 32 of 50 from the same batch of CDs? I find my problems are much worse when buying cheap CDs, though I don't get system reboots.
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post #3 of 7
4/4/04 at 8:46pm
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Totally awesome reply thank you very much
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post #4 of 7
4/10/04 at 5:04pm
ACtually, setting it not to automatically boot has nothing to do with it. It's something with the drive. This will happen with any burning program. It will either blue screen or reboot. I can usually get 1 disc out before it does that. And it always seems to do it at the same point on the discs. They are high quality discs, not that it should matter, since a bad disc shouldn't make it reboot.
Nothign so far has worked for me.
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post #5 of 7
4/10/04 at 5:12pm
Oh yeah, had this even happen on a fresh install w/ fireburner and nero. It's almost like the laser gets of kilter and forces the laptop to reboot. Doubt thats it or anything, but few people have luck with this drive and it seems like it's just faulty. There should be a recall or something.

It's a dangerous thing Frodo, burning cds on a Sager... Once you start, you never know if you'll reboot.
heh..
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post #6 of 7
6/25/04 at 10:23pm

bad burns response

its just burn speed. I burn disks constantly (several a day). The drives are over rated or something, just pick the next slowest burn speed, and you will go from 50 percent success, to 99 percent.

It sucks, and sometimes I like to torture my computer by burning at full speed, just to see if I get lucky. But it is like you said, only 50 percent or so. I have used the cheapest disks -- like a hundred for 10 bucks, as well as higher quality ones with no difference in success.

I have a np 5670 though, and I actually get to see the blue screen of death each time it happens, and have to manually restart my computer. I had Sager put in a new drive, it didn't matter. Bottom line just lower the speed, and face the fact that the drive just can't do what it says it can.

Travis
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post #7 of 7
6/26/04 at 3:20am
cd-rw DVD RW?

I have a 5680, use Nero, I've not had a problem. DVD/CD-RW combo drive
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