Hello I am new to this board. Last week I just bought a Liteon 811SX 8x external USB2.0 DVD burner for my laptop. I also bought a fire wire 120 GIG firewire hard drive for my laptop. Every software package I use has problems when trying to burn. The first 3 nights I tried to burn using MyDVD I had an error that said not enough memory. I turned the cache and capture folder to the new hard drive and that got rid of that error. Then the next night I had an error that couldn't find the DVD writer. I then last night tried Ulead. It recognized the DVD burner and started to convert the mpeg. When I woke up this morning I had a failure to initiate drive, then I had the DVD burn unsuccessful message. I looked into my device manager and my DVD writer wasn't in there. I restarted my computer unplugged the drive and plugged it in again. The computer recognized it, so I tried to burn again. Ulead organized the menus and started the burn. It showed it was burning at 4x but there was no red/orange light on the drive? every now and then the green light would flicker. When it was finished I got an error that said could not find drive and Ulead burn screen went back to gray and showed that there was no DVD burner hooked up. Am I having problems with drivers or another problem? I am kind of fed up right now, I spent all this money for a DVD burner and accessories and I can't even burn 1 DVD. I have one of those PCMCIA type II USB 2.0/2 port firewire cards from CompUSA. I have an Adaptec USB media center capture device and My DVD burner hooked up to the 2 2.0 USB ports. I have my 120 gig hard drive hooked into the 4-pin firewire port of the card. I think the software keeps loosing the drive, Could this be a driver problem. Could my old built in USB 1.1 ports be the problem? I am tempted to uninstall all the USB drivers and start from scratch, or return the DVD Burner. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks PJ
A very good place to start! Is the PCMCIA card new as well? Maybe the card is bad? Do you have access to another pc in order to try out your burner on a separate system? That would help determine if the drive is good or not.
