Problems burning

[Dan]

There is some good firmware for this by Liggy and Dee.

Chewy would be best to tell you which firmware is best for you.

http://liggydee.cdfreaks.com/page/en/NEC-ND-4550A/

I have an NEC 3550A with Liggy and Dee's modded firmware, works excellent!
Chewy led me to that ages ago!

[rebecka_o]

Ok, thanks! I´ll wait and see if Chewy has a suggestion for me...

[soup]

So your old burner was an LG with version 1.05 firmware. Now what is your current firmware for the NEC?

[Dan]

Do you still have that LG?

It is great for reading dirty/scratched discs that the NEC may have problems with occasionally.

[rebecka_o]

So your old burner was an LG with version 1.05 firmware. Now what is your current firmware for the NEC?

1.84

[rebecka_o]

Do you still have that LG?

It is great for reading dirty/scratched discs that the NEC may have problems with occasionally.

Unfortunately not...

[Chewy]

go with dee's 1X7, original or region free, riplock is removed in all firmwares
but you can set dvdd to read slower but it's not a sure bet as nec's don't
respond to the command well

[Dan]

Thanks Chewy, I wasn't sure of the best choice among those options.

[rebecka_o]

Thanks Chewy!

[Chewy]

houston we have a problem
rebecka said she has a 4550, her firmware she said she had was 184

This is the stock ND4551A firmware 1-84

the 4551 does labelscribe?

better to copy and paste the current burner and firmware from an imgburn window to avoid confusion please

now I am confused

I am going to blame it on Dan

[rebecka_o]

houston we have a problem
rebecka said she has a 4550, her firmware she said she had was 184


the 4551 does labelscribe?

better to copy and paste the current burner and firmware from an imgburn window to avoid confusion please

I hope we don´t have a problem? Since I´ve already flashed the drive. Now imgburn says:

_NEC DVD_RW ND-4550A 1.X7 (ATA)

Before the flash it said:

_NEC DVD_RW ND-4550A 1.84

The 4551 does labelscribe, can the 4550 do that after the flash?

I did a burn after the flash @ 8x and the scan was like this:

[Chewy]

the confusion was short lived, I saw your scan over in the scan thread,
that original firmware was not listed at liggy and dee's site

cdspeed verified you had a 4550 drive and now we know the 184 was also used for the 4550,

it is looking better for your new burner but those verbatim disks must be a bad batch

[rebecka_o]

Can I be sure that it´s just a bad batch? I´ve had comments like - you´ve got too many programs running, you are burning too fast, you burn with the wrong program or not updated version etc. So I´ve tried several things - defrag, uninstalled all unwanted programs, unchecked all programs I don´t need to autorun, I´ve updated ImgBurn, tried burning reeeaaal slow etc. And now I even have a new burner and updated firmware... Is there anything else I can try or is the only thing to do to just buy new discs? Unfortunately I have at least 50 left...

[soup]

That's not a really bad burn, trust me I can show you burns a lot worse than that from blank discs I have tried even Verbatims & they have still played. It's just that as you can tell from the disc quality scan thread there are better ones.

[Chewy]

burn at 4x and scan at 8x and see how that does