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Old 03-21-2006, 03:55 PM   #8 (permalink)
robbdn
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Originally Posted by CityOfAngels
Now in Nero it's saying it could not begin Disc-At-Once, and the DAO option is selected and greyed out. This is hella confusing.
I'm a little confused by your problem... and I'm having a hard time understanding if it's a matter of figuring out compression or it there's something actually wrong with your DVD Burner and/or configuration, but in the event that it's the latter, you may be encountering problems with StarForce copy protection drivers... installed any new games lately?

http://www.boingboing.net/2006/01/30..._malware_.html

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...the common problems brought by Starforce: under Windows XP, if packets are lost during the reading or writing of a disk, XP interprets this as an error and steps the IDE speed down. Eventually it will revert to 16bit compatibility mode rendering a CD/DVD writer virtually unusable. In some circumstances certain drives cannot cope with this mode and it results in physical hardware failure (Most commonly in multiformat CD/DVD writer drives). A sure sign of this step down occurring is that the burn speeds will get slower and slower (no matter what speed you select to burn at). Starforce, on a regular basis, triggers this silent step down. Until it reaches the latter stages most people do not even realise it is happening.
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Just in case the compression tips don't solve the problem...
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