NEC ND3550A overburn cd - NEC ND-3550A DVD RW Dual Layer Burner

WAV files, if you burn WAV format, they normally work, that gives you about 80 minutes but you can (on some pc's using NERO or the Amiga) write an 'overburn' CD up to 100 minutes, but that's not guaranteed to always work, i stick to a 93 minute limit & it works fine. WAV cd's are also called an ISO CD by some programs.

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The CD may be an "overburned" CD, which is longer than your typical CD's length, which would display the the Overflow warning message.

We can solve this problem by holding down the ESC button for 2 seconds, and then accessing the Advanced Setup menu. Under the Advanced Setup Menu, there is a function called "Overburn", which will enable the copying of overburned CDs.

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because the song is burned there and cannot be unburned or overburned.

Some Aiwa players will not play burned, non-closed or expanded limit cds (CD of 700MB or overburned to 750MB).

When you say new cds do you mean purchased pressed cds or ones you created?

You can download NEC Driver from this site.

• NEC DVD Driver

Open Nero Burning, go to Prefferences, look for "Expert Features" (without commas), check the box where it says "Enable overburn disc..", change the information in the boxes bellow as: 82 minutes, 59 sec, 59.(these are the values I recommend, but you can increase each of them). Apply the settings.

Be carefull to select "disc-at-once". You cannot overburn in Track at Once Mode

boot your computer into the bios and check to see if the drive shows there , if it does then dissconected the drive ( with power off ) and reboot the computer , let it fully boot , then turn off and reconnect the drive and windows should pick it up

select overburn option in (Nero version 6.6)
first select data disk, more, configure, goto expert features select over burn feature and change Disk capacity to 90 Minutes. Happy Burning

venu babu namineni, computers & consumables, Ongole, Andhra Pradesh, India

There are various things that can be done here. You'll need to make sure somethings first before we conclude there might be a defective with your burner:

- Music quality: if you burn audio you should always looks for high quality files, In case of MP3: search files with at least 192 kbp/s of bitrate. If there are files with higher bitrate, they are better. Here is a overview of speeds and there quality:

96 kbp/s: FM Quality
128 kbp/s: Low CD Quality
160 kbp/s: Higher CD Quality
192 kbp/s: High CD Quality
220 kbp/s: Better Quality
320 Kbp/s: Studio Quality.

Note that files with a higher bitrate use up more space on your harddisk. For example: 320 kbp/s is usually between 8 and 12 MB's. (Depending on song length).

- Overburn: Do not overburn CD's. If it says it's almost full. Don't force a overburn.

- Disc Media: Make sure your disc are of decent quality. The less known formats/cheap ones are usually not that good.

- Your PC: While burning, don't do too much with the PC. It's best to let it burn and do nothing.

- Speeds: always use only speeds the discs are capable of and preferably less then indicated, For example: disc says 52x, use something link 32x

I hope this helps out. Let me know if these hints worked.
You can always update your burner's firmware but you'll need to tell me something more about it. Like: what model is it, what brand etc.

Have you also checked whether the lens on your CD player is OK?

Greetings,

DarkNeogen