cd burner gone bad?

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i got a cd burner here and everytime i try 2 burn something it fails 2 write to disks, now im thinking that the cd's are bad but that imposible first of all there brand new, they before they were working, now when i used like 7cd they all failed so what do u think its just bad luck or the cd burner is bad

plz help

[jhirst]

It is unlikely that you have had bad luck that many times. Have you tried burning at a slower speed?

[Mynot]

I agree that you should try to burn at a slower speed and I would also turn off all background software, (use CTRL-ALT-DEL to see whats running) and check that that you have the latest driver for that model CD Burner.

[darkside]

are you using rewirtable disks that are to high speed for your drive? (that happend to me)

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well i did go down 2 16x and that still did not help. its a 40x burner i should not have 2 go that low, and no i was not running anything at the time, and i was using cd-r's

it can read disks just not burn them, ill try 4x lol

hope that helps.

[WhatsThisBoxFor?]

What are you using to burn them? I've had big problems with the windows burning engine.

[bigandy]

Also, what speed are the disc rated for? Could it be possible that you're trying to burn the discs faster than they are rated?

[Jaggannath]

Apart from the above questions, have you upgraded the burner drive recently?? Because if you're using Nero, you need to install the program for that specific drive

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well i do got nero and im using 48x cds, so thats not a problem, and its not recently i never open the dell case just 1 or 2 times 2 blow all the dust out