*New* Benq 1655 not working!

[NightTran]

load qsuit on then delete all the learning media, turn every thing off then restart, last time I delete my qsuit what ever setting I had stuck with that drive

[katzdvd]

Night,

I checked qsuite; there is no learned media under any of the drives, I never use it.

[NightTran]

what about if you turn over speed on does it show the same or 4x,8x, 12x and 16x, or only 4x and 8x

[katzdvd]

I turned overspeed on for this drive, & now it is showing 4, 8,12,16 in imgburn.

[NightTran]

alright you may want to get on it with your multi burn , it may be there before you even got it, qsuit is apart of Benq

[Chewy]

wonder if the drive was ever hooked up to the funky controller card when a setting was changed, that would explain this? maybe?

and if overspeed was turned back off would the drive now show the 8X burn speed like it should have before?

[katzdvd]

wonder if the drive was ever hooked up to the funky controller card

This drive was on that controller card - (how did you know?!?)

and if overspeed was turned back off would the drive now show the 8X burn speed like it should have before?

I turned qsuite back off, & it now shows 4x only again.

Do we think that there is a problem with the drive, or is it just that qsuite needs to be on for this particular drive only?

BTW, I don't use qsuite for any of the drives; why would only this one be affected?

[NightTran]

you can keep it on and try your multi burn... and see if it work and the quality is up to your bar, or put it back on the MB like Chewy said and see if it read 4x and 8x ( then it is the card)

[Chewy]

the overspeed/qsuite probably glitches on the drive when it's been on the controller card?

if the reviewers/mods/geeks at cdfreaks have issues then most of us will

[katzdvd]

the overspeed/qsuite probably glitches on the drive when it's been on the controller card?

Still seems odd; Only this one drive has the issue, because I have another drive on the card & it is working okay. This burner was originally set as slave to another 1655.

I set it to ide 1 master since I have been doing all the troubleshooting.

[katzdvd]

Night & Chewy;

I left overspeed/qsuite turned on, the drive was showing the proper burn speeds in imgburn. But, when I tried to burn a disc, I still get the same "Invalid address for write" error. I am using the same discs in my other 3 drives successfully.

It looks to me like this drive is bad...do you fellows agree?

[NightTran]

if it is not on the card can it burn properly?

[katzdvd]

Unfortunantly no, night.

This burn was attempted with the drive on ide 1 on the mainboard. I have had it on ide 1 the whole time that we have been trying to get this resolved. I flashed the firmware with it on there, etc.

I only had in on the controller card when I first installed it, before I really started to use it & noticed there was a problem. Sorry if I confused you.

katz

[NightTran]

I would return it and get money back, if you can get another retail insteed, you may also want to flash firm ware now when it is on the MB only

Good luck with looking for the new drive, I still think it is one of the best burner out there

[katzdvd]

Thanks night & chewy for working on this with me. I suspected that the drive was bad, but I wanted to confirm it, since there are no more? 1655s avail., & now I will have to "settle" for an inferior unit!

Back to newegg with it on Monday!

regards, katz