M4400: DVD drive

I had the same problem as some have reported here, thinking the BIOS was causing problems burning DVD's, causing many shiny coasters to be born For me it was Roxio, the program that shipped with the M4400. I uninstalled everything Roxio, and installed Nero because I had a copy, and the burning errors immediately went away. CD and DVD burning are perfect now, every time. FWIW.

 

Hmmm... ok, good know. But on which BIOS is that?

 

I'm using BIOS A11 before and after the Roxio uninstall....it was that crappy Roxio program!

 

Ok...too bad that won't be a solution for me as A11 still causes fan to run way too much etc. Doesn't matter, at this point my DVD is switched off because of the latency issue anyway

 

BIOS doesn't matter, I think getting rid of Roxio _alone_ will cure your ills. Let us know.

 

Do you have the Intel network card, and did you try setting the mode? Worked for me, but YRMV.