Hi

I've been having longstanding issues with burning dvds with my desktop. I am using Win Xp Home. It pretty much started out when I got my machine brand new a couple years back, I had some issues burning to certain discs getting some funky "power calibration errors". THe problems seemed to settle them out for a while, however, after having not burned any dvds for some time and trying to burn one, I would get a very bizarre result. The burn procedure would complete and show successful, however if I tried to verify the data burned it would always fail. This was due to corrupted sectors which I found using DVDInfoPro and the drive struggled to read those sections. After having tried numerous things including changes in burning software, firmware upgrades (also tried older ones), different media... I kept getting problems, so I assumed it was a hardware issue with my BenQ dw866 (I think, it was an 800 series from what I recall), especially considering the burner had given me some problems initially right from the vendor. So, I got the drive changed for a newer Benq Dw1620. However, I have the same issues with the new drive, whereby an image will burn successfully but corruptions will be present that will pose troubles when reading (both in standalones and pc DVD drives). At this point I am really unsure of what it could be? I was thinking it might lie in the internal cabling setup and which drives are running as a maser and slave, etc. but I really don't know enough to identify the problem.

The problem has been present for quite some time now, but I am posting since I have several dvds taking up space on my HD which I am ready to burn. Can anyone help?