Indefinite burner lite and clicking

[giveitago]

Problem: Burner active lite on and clicking
- I’ve been able to burn for years with same set up until now.
- All of a sudden, all of the time now:
- when I insert a blank -R or a -RW disc to Burn, I get
- Green lite then changes to orange and goes back to green as normal
- But then goes back to orange and stays on indefinitely.
- Also there’s an faint audible cliking sound about every 2 seconds from the burner, also indefinitely
- My computer then becomes squirrely, basically non-responsive, until I remove the disc.

I have: NEC DVD_RW ND-2500A , DVD±R/RW Recorder,
Firmware Version : 1.06
I don’t know what else to post for now.

[benbryant]

It happened the same thing with my NEC burner went bad less than 2 years ago. The problem was only with burning, not reading though. Look like a new burner is needed

Regards

[giveitago]

Just to confirm. All of a sudden your orange [activity?] lite stayed on and you had a rhythmic clicking sound?

Up until that moment on mine I had these other problems:
Various Problems I encountered with Nero:
- Illegal Disc
- Could not perform Start of Disc-at-once
- Burn process failed at 2x-
- Recorder State: Failed

Various Problems encountered with Decrypter:
- I/O error
- Cannot write medium - Incompatible Format
- Failed to Reserve Track

I have no idea if related.

[benbryant]

Exactly. At first, it only happened sporadically once in a while. Then the problem became more often and eventually stopped completely

Regards

[giveitago]

New Info - Indefinite burner lite and clicking

- I installed the Firmware update, but still have same problems.
But what does the following indicate?
- I put a Movie in DVD Burner “G”
- Green to O to G
- I “Explore” G Drive, got Audio_TS and Video_TS folders, Explore Video_TS and got individual files.
- and then got message no disc in G.
- Re-inserted movie, and Played a VTS with WinDVD.
- Burner lite flashing rapidly G,O,G but played ok.
- Inserted blank -RW TDK and had the same “No disc...“ results as in previous Reply.

- Inserted disc again, same G to O and after a pause to G.
- Opened Decrypter
- Says “Device not Ready [Medium Not Present]

[giveitago]

Here’s something huh?
- I put a Movie in DVD Burner “G”
- Green to O to G
- I “Explore” G Drive, got Audio_TS and Video_TS folders, Explore Video_TS and got individual files.
- and then got message no disc in G.
- Re-inserted movie, and Played a VTS with WinDVD.
- Burner lite flashing rapidly G,O,G but played ok.
- Inserted blank -RW TDK and had the same “No disc...“ results as in previous Reply.

Then,
- I Uninstalled Burner, Removed USB cable, unplugged
- Did System Restore - [ 1st time, apprehensive about might have lost. As I see things noted [2], can I safely Delete originals?]
- hooked up again and Re-installed Burner
- Downloaded & re-installed Firmware update
- I had mistakenly installed Incd when I’d installed Nero Update. But then I’d Uninstalled per prior recommendation.
I did a Incd Search & got this:
ASTIncDec.class, ASTPostIncDec.class, ASTPreIncDec.class all in folder com/motive/JSInterp
What do I do with them?
- I installed IMGburn [Does it work with FixIt4Me & FixVTS?]
- I inserted a -RW Fujifilm that has accepted video and been erased a couple of times.
- unable to get to town yet for Verbatim or to borrow different burner
- G to O, stays O and clicks same as before. Then back to G.
- Opened IMGburn, says Device not Ready. Medium not Present.
- Checked Disc Info says “No disc inserted or drive not ready. Please try again.”
- Basic pblm still the same.

[giveitago]

Solved -sort of.

My problem appears to be resolved by using Verbatim dvds, as recommended.
Although I now get “Unknown BurnPhase” as have other submittals, the Burn is successful.
Thank you for your interest in resolving my problem.