Stumped With My LTR-52246S 6S0F

I need some serious help here. I have been on the CD Freaks forums for days reading up on my new Lite-On LTR-52246S 52x24x52. I have read various topics on firmware, different types of media to use, tip and tricks of good burning practices. I feel proficient that i have setup my system to burn perfect cds!

My system:
Elitegroup K7SEM V.1.0 MOBO w/ SIS 730S Chipset
1.2 GIG AMD Athlon
256 MB RAM
40 GIG 7200RPM Western Digital HD
Lite-On LTR 52246S 6SOF
Running Windows 2000 Advanced Server
ASPI version 4.6 Note: Had problems with 4.7

So with all that said, here is what i have learned:

I setup my HD for DMA enabled.
The burner and the hard drive are on separate IDE cables.
Clean install of windows.
4.6 ASPI layer installed
NERO 5.5.10.42 installed (latest)
EZCD/DVD Creator 6 installed (latest)
MEDIA: Mitsui 80 Minute Silver CD-R
KProbe v.1.1.16

Ok, now the problem:
No matter what speed with or without SMARTBURN, and/or DMA enabled 3/4 throught the burn my C2 goes throught the roof. Now this is only with audio, i can burn an image or data at 40x and get less than 10 C1 errors across the whole disc, this is great. I have heard that it is not good to burn at slow speeds with high speed media, so what does that mean? To only burn audio with slower rated media? I have used about five different manufacturers of media and every one has given me C2 errors. This is burning MP3 and/or wave. Here are my test results:

At 4X:


At 16X:


At 24X:


At 32X:


At 40X:


At 48X:


At 52X:



So what am i dong wrong? Or what can i do different? Im allready using high quality media with a high quality drive and latest versions of all my software? Any help would be appreciated, thank you.

Why doesnt anyone answer me???

I could swear I replyed to this thread... weird.
Try something else other than those Mitsuis. If problem persists then your drive is screwed.

Don't know what to tell ya... can you post a scan of a disc other than mitsui?

here's a test I did with a princo cdr (audio cd)

I second the vote for different media. If it does this on TY ot Ritek 48x media, the drive is FUBAR

it's because u did Airhead.

Thanks azi
Closed the other crosspost.

thanks for your help, I returned the drive and got another one and had the same problem. I found it hard to believe that the media which i researched to be high quality would cause my problem, im going to try TY 52X media and see what happens. Im sorry for posting in two places i thought i was in the wrong forum, please dont hate me Airhead!