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Liteon lvw5005 began to gouge brank new disks. got replacmnt-after awhile same problem
9feb08 i bought liteon lvw5005 dvd recrdr because it was rated highly on tech sites,had NTSC & PAL, & i wanted to both backup VHS tapes & record directly onto DVD disks TV cable movies & shows. am disabled from cancer-company terminated me because i was sick. first lvw5005 unit worked OK with glitches like not reading disks after 4tv eps recorded on it then after another recorded i'd get disk error & disk unreasable anywhere-altho' had been ok until then. then this 1st unit began to deeply scratch & goudge prisitne disks.still under warranty. was replaced. i used replacement 2nd unit several months-had bought extended warranty plan-then same tyes of problems-the worst of course was literally making deep gouges on pristine new disks. vendor wouldn't replace.said 2nd unit fulfilled warranty i'd bought.iunit has been collecting dust. just bought on sale a liteon DD-1300GX DVD recorder-not opened yet-it can be returned. hard to find review-but found at least 6 that sounded like this model has problems reading disks among other issues- & only has NYSC tuner. any ideas for repairing LVW5005? don't have much $ due to corporate abuse of disabled employees since i lost my job all medical,pension, life insurance other benefits. am at age no one would hire me & am in constant pain from cancer surgery. any ideas appreciated with a thank you for any attempts to help me.
9feb08 i bought liteon lvw5005 dvd recrdr because it was rated highly on tech sites,had NTSC & PAL, & i wanted to both backup VHS tapes & record directly onto DVD disks TV cable movies & shows. am disabled from cancer-company terminated me because i was sick. first lvw5005 unit worked OK with glitches like not reading disks after 4tv eps recorded on it then after another recorded i'd get disk error & disk unreadable anywhere-altho' had been ok until then. then this 1st unit began to deeply scratch & goudge pristinee disks.still under warranty. was replaced. i used replacement 2nd unit several months-had bought extended warranty plan-then same tyes of problems-the worst of course was literally making deep gouges on pristine new disks. vendor wouldn't replace.msaid 2nd unit fulfilled warranty i'd bought.unit has been collecting dust. just bought on sale a liteon DD-300GX DVD recorder-not opened yet-it can be returned. hard to find review-but found at least 6 that sounded like this model has problems reading disks among other issues- & only has NTSC tuner. any ideas for repairing LVW5005? don't have much $ due to corporate abuse of disabled employees since i lost my job, all medical,pension, life insurance, other benefits. am at age no one would hire me & am in constant pain from cancer surgery. any ideas appreciated with a thank you for any attempts to help me.
10feb08 this is reposting with typos corrected.
9feb08 i bought liteon lvw5005 dvd recrdr because it was rated highly on tech sites,had NTSC & PAL, & i wanted to both backup VHS tapes & record directly onto DVD disks TV cable movies & shows. am disabled from cancer-company terminated me because i was sick. first lvw5005 unit worked OK with glitches like not reading disks after 4tv eps recorded on it then after another recorded i'd get disk error & disk unreadable anywhere-altho' had been ok until then. then this 1st unit began to deeply scratch & goudge pristinee disks.still under warranty. was replaced. i used replacement 2nd unit several months-had bought extended warranty plan-then same tyes of problems-the worst of course was literally making deep gouges on pristine new disks. vendor wouldn't replace.msaid 2nd unit fulfilled warranty i'd bought.unit has been collecting dust. just bought on sale a liteon DD-300GX DVD recorder-not opened yet-it can be returned. hard to find review-but found at least 6 that sounded like this model has problems reading disks among other issues- & only has NTSC tuner. any ideas for repairing LVW5005? don't have much $ due to corporate abuse of disabled employees since i lost my job, all medical,pension, life insurance, other benefits. am at age no one would hire me & am in constant pain from cancer surgery. any ideas appreciated with a thank you for any attempts to help me.
dear Drumernick-i'm not sure how a firmware update would help with the physical problem of the units actually putting deep gouges on brand new disks. i thought firmware upgrades were to update any drivers or software that might cause problems like recorder not burning a disk properly so that a disk that was once readable is not readable-although it had been ok and readable on other sources or unit freezing up, etc.. i used high quality liteon mfgr recommended brand name +-RW disks, so that i could erase and reuse disks.how does firmware upgrades address the physical damage the lvw5005 made by deeply gouging the disks-making them useless. can you expalin, please?
dear Drumernick-i'm not sure how a firmware update would help with the physical problem of the units actually putting deep gouges on brand new disks. i thought firmware upgrades were to update any drivers or software that might cause problems like recorder not burning a disk properly so that a disk that was once readable is not readable-although it had been ok and readable on other sources or unit freezing up, etc.. i used high quality liteon mfgr recommended brand name +-RW disks, so that i could erase and reuse disks.how does firmware upgrades address the physical damage the lvw5005 made by deeply gouging the disks-making them useless. can you expalin, please?
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just try to clean the rom with and cd -dvd cleaner .if it works then good otherwise replace it. Hope this helps. Please rate my response. Thanks. Have a good day.
Is your vista a 64 bit OS? If so this dvd-writer is compatible with 32 bit OS. You may need to upgrade the firmware for it. Maybe this link can help LiteOn firmware search. I've upgraded firmware for a dvd writer already with no bad consequences but I have crashed one of my motherboards trying to do the same. So if you're not comfortable doing it, get the people you bought it from or some techie to do it for you. Hope this helps
I had the same issue with a liteon DVD drive I had. It worked fine and then one day it couldn't write to a DVD if I paid it to. I troubleshooted it for a few days, installed all the latest updates and patches and still nothing. From what I could tell, it baiscally died. So fortunately Liteons are relatively cheap so I just went out and got another LiteOn and it worked just fine. I would consider purchasing a new Drive.
This is a common problem with the Lite-on LVW range of DVD recorders
due to changes in the construction of more recent DVD R media. It can
be solved with a relatively simple firmware upgrade.
I have a Liteon LVW-1107. It is a very tempramental machine. It tends to prefer +R or +RW disks. Will record on -Rs but may fail with them.
On occasion when I insert a store bought DVD movie I will get an
invalid disk warning. The machine seems to get confused.
What I do is pull the power cord and let it set a few minutes.
Give it a little time to reset. Sometimes you have to do this a couple times. It has always worked for me. I hope it will work for you.
10feb08 this is reposting with typos corrected.
9feb08 i bought liteon lvw5005 dvd recrdr because it was rated highly on tech sites,had NTSC & PAL, & i wanted to both backup VHS tapes & record directly onto DVD disks TV cable movies & shows. am disabled from cancer-company terminated me because i was sick. first lvw5005 unit worked OK with glitches like not reading disks after 4tv eps recorded on it then after another recorded i'd get disk error & disk unreadable anywhere-altho' had been ok until then. then this 1st unit began to deeply scratch & goudge pristinee disks.still under warranty. was replaced. i used replacement 2nd unit several months-had bought extended warranty plan-then same tyes of problems-the worst of course was literally making deep gouges on pristine new disks. vendor wouldn't replace.msaid 2nd unit fulfilled warranty i'd bought.unit has been collecting dust. just bought on sale a liteon DD-300GX DVD recorder-not opened yet-it can be returned. hard to find review-but found at least 6 that sounded like this model has problems reading disks among other issues- & only has NTSC tuner. any ideas for repairing LVW5005? don't have much $ due to corporate abuse of disabled employees since i lost my job, all medical,pension, life insurance, other benefits. am at age no one would hire me & am in constant pain from cancer surgery. any ideas appreciated with a thank you for any attempts to help me.
dear Drumernick-i'm not sure how a firmware update would help with the physical problem of the units actually putting deep gouges on brand new disks. i thought firmware upgrades were to update any drivers or software that might cause problems like recorder not burning a disk properly so that a disk that was once readable is not readable-although it had been ok and readable on other sources or unit freezing up, etc.. i used high quality liteon mfgr recommended brand name +-RW disks, so that i could erase and reuse disks.how does firmware upgrades address the physical damage the lvw5005 made by deeply gouging the disks-making them useless. can you expalin, please?
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