Hi, I i bought my 106d about 1 month ago, OEM i think (it wasn't retail boxed, it was just a drive with Nero disc), anyway, worked great up till now. The problem is this; When i insert a blank CD (not dvd) and open a burning program, or anything else which searchs the drives the computer completely crash's, first it gets real sluggish, then after about 10 seconds it completely freezes. Nero doesn't even load at all b4 the computer crashes. In other cd burning apps it laods then crash's, sometimes i get into task manager and are able to end the program and eject the cd, but the computer remains real sluggish. I am running Windows XP Pro. What could the problem be? Im not to worried if i cant use the drive to burn cds (i previously could FYI) since i have a cd burner of the same speed. However i am most worried that the problem may make its way into the dvd burning proces. I can read cds and read/write dvds fine so far. Only when i insert a blank cd of any brand do i get problems. And this has only started recently. Also i think the pioneer writes cd's better than my old ricoh 16x so i really want to get it fixed, it cost to much to leave broke. PLEASE HELP ME !!
Update: Dvd burning has the same problem except when i use a + RW disc. Using any - R discs it is the same as CD-Rs . The whole computer crashes. My firmware which came with the drive is 1.08
Well, I know this won't help but I have a pioneer 106D with 1.08 firmware (the latest) and tried to create this problem with no avail. I tried Nero, Alcohol 120 and DVD shrink. Everthing works fine and I currently burn DVD-R's around 4.1X. Sounds odd to me but maybe someone else can help. Good luck.
Ok new update; my computer was setup like this, pioneer dvd-rom as slave on IDE-1 and pioneer dvd-r 106d as master on ide1, Hard drive on master IDE-0 and ricoh cd-r on slave IDE-0. I disconnected the pionerr dvd rom leaving only the dvd-r drive connected to the belt and the problem has gone away. Note: The setup worked fine as it was for a month. However, since i have not burned anything for 2 weeks, in which many softwares were installed, i cannot pinpoint a program which may have cause this conflict. At any rate, at least i know the drive seems ok and i have something to work on now. If that helps anyone else come up with a solution then let me know of course !! I will try connecting the ricoh cd-r to the IDE-1 slave and the pioneer dvd-rom to the IDE-0 slave, maybe it will work like that. I dont like having my Pioneer dvd rom not connected as its a very new drive ! ANd i'd rather not connect it to the IDE-0 slave and having nothing connected to the slave of IDE-1. Because if im gonna only have to rom drives connected, i want them to be on the same belt so my Hard Drive isn't sharing !
Hi Isdod, I was going to suggest exactly what you stated in the last line of your post. Swapping the 2 slave positions. Just a guess but the 2 pioneer drives on the same IDE chain may be causing the conflict. It really shouldn't but you never know with these computers. As long as the burner is on one of the masters it should burn at the rated speed. My burner is on master 1 with a cdrw as slave 1 with no problems but they are 2 different brands. Hope you get it going. Jerry
Yep, putting the Pioneer dvd-rom as slave on IDE-0 with the hard drive and the Ricoh CD-R as slave on IDE-1 with the pioneer dvd-r Has solved the problem. Everything is working perfect. I tested DVD -r. +r, +rw and cd-r (on both drives). Seems strange only because it worked fine on the old setup up for 1 month. I could understand why 2 pioneers MIGHT conflict, but it seems dod they work in tangent fine for a month then obviously something corrupted. Either way, just posting that its fine now so that hopefully anyone facing similar DVD-R problems may be able to gain some insight into how to fix it. Cheers to those who helped !
