Ok, I’ve read all about this on the forums here, and nothing has worked for my so far, so I’m thinking about getting rid of the drive. Basically, I have 2 burners on one ide channel, and the other one works perfectly. I’ve checked dma mode, and they are both Ultra DMA 2 - Ultra33, and the jumpers are set correctly (I think) as slave and master. Now, regardless of the dvd’s I use (sorry I don’t know all the codes or whatever for the media) only burn at 4x, but I get tons of errors with nero verification. I’ve tried 8x dvd-r TY and 16x maxtor (I know I know) and both of them only burn at 4x and get tons of errors. as well, I have the latest firmware BCIC. any suggestions?
Try using Verbatim DVD+R media. Are you sure your TY media is not fake? What software are you using to dvd media? If you’re unsure if the jumpers are set correctly on your drive I would suggest checking them. Try hooking up the 1650 as Master.
Ok, thanks I will check the jumpers tonight and set the benq as master and see how it goes. I use nero 7.5 to burn them… as well, it has trouble reading other burnt discs (TY and maxtor) I will try that and post back again
thanks for the quick reply!
-sfg
Instead of using Nero 7.5 use Imgburn. IMHO Imgburn is better to use than Nero 7.5. Nero is buggy. 
Imgburn is freebie software.
http://www.imgburn.com/
Ok, I will try that as well. also, I bought this drive OEM, so it may have been sitting around for a while. do you think that if I bought one of those cleaning disc things if that would help at all?
Using a cleaning disc isn’t going to help your situation. OEM has nothing to do with the drive not being able to read/burn. I already suggested to you that you could have fake TY media. If you live in the USA, Best Buy has Verbatim dvd+r & dvd-r media on sale this week for 50pack spindle $12.99. Buy the dvd+r and burn a it at 8x spd and see what you results you get. Burn it with Imgburn.
NEVER use cleaning discs on CD/DVD burners! They can damage the lens of your burner…
ok, bad idea! thanks for the ideas, i will try some verbatim if i can get a hold if it