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LiteOn SOHW 1653s problems

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My OS is XP, and i used to use a Philips DVD drive which used to burn all my DVDs fine. But I got a new LiteOn SOHW 1653s and I can't burn any DVDs with it. I have tried many different discs and it keeps on failing and says "illegal disc", but these discs are legitamite brands. I've tried various things like reinstalling nero (that was provided with the drive), changing the cache drive and other things but still i'm having no luck. To make things worse its very difficult to reach LiteON and ebuyer (where i bought it from).

So can somebody please help me.
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i'm no expert i got a 1633s a few weeks ago. try these basic steps. do a clean install of nero, using the clean up tools from the nero website. then reinstall nero. download the lastest updates and install them eg i found nero vision 2 a pain but version 3 works fine. there have been various updates released in the past week. finally install the latest firmware for your writer from the liteon website. forget lite-on's recommended media i found that my lite-on writer doesnt like ritek based discs and most suppliers have told me to avoid ritek.
i have had problems converting avi files and burning direct to dvd-r. nero fails to finalise the disc. to solve this i burn to a mitsubishi 2x dvd-rw and then copy this resultant dvd to a dvd-r, takes about 25 minutes extra time but no coasters. i found verbatim media works best. if you are in the uk you could try a trial pack of 12 discs from........

www.cd-rmedia.co.uk/cgi-bin2/details.pl?id=trial

for around £8.50 in postage.

hope i have been of some use
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