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• Ggw-h20li stutter during playback
Question by TMSR, Tuesday 1st of July 2008 02:08
Hi all,

I have just purchased a LG GGW-H20LI Blue Ray burner and installed it in my PC.

I have had no luck in getting it to play back (with PowerDVD) any DVD or HDDVDs without massive stutter. The problem is not intermittent, but rather the player tends to freeze as it tries to playback any movie. It does the same playing back DVDs via VLC, so it all points to how the drive is set up.

The manual is rather basic and says "plug the drive in, check DEVICE MANAGER". No other hints, tips or gotchas.

I have searched on the NET for some hint on BIOS settings for the SATA port, but could not find anything. The drive appears as working properly in DEVICE MANAGER and reads data OK. I Installed the Power DVD Hi Def suite from it.

My computer details are:

Screen: LG 50" Plasma HiDef 1080p
E6600
ASUS P5W DH DELUXE motherboard - (BIOS 2704 installed June 28)
NVIDIA GTX7950 512MB - (Latest Video driver installed June 28)
2GB RAM
3x 320GB SATA
1x 1TB SATA
1x Imation IDE CDRW
Win XP MCE SP3
PowerDVD Ultra 7 - (latest revision instllled as at June 30)
LG GGW-H20LI - installed in port labelled SATA_RAID1 (no RAID is enabled in BIOS)

Thanks for any help you can provide. I am sure I have screwed something up!
Answer by zevia, Tuesday 1st of July 2008 04:30
I own the P5W DH Deluxe and I have only tried a Plextor DVD burner on the SATA-RAID1 and it works fine. But different drive/firmware may not have the same result.

the SATA-RAID1 on the motherboard is JMicron chipset. You might want to update the JMicron raid controller (from Asus website) and your Windows.

I know for sure that none of my optical drives work on EZ_RAID1 and 2.

Let us know how it goes. If it doesn't work, try on SATA1, SATA3, and SATA4.
Answer by ~KIPPER~, Tuesday 1st of July 2008 06:05
Welcome to the forum TMSR

I will add that I also run the same MB and none of my SATA drives will work on easyraid connections.

Once I move the GGW-H20L to SATA 1 it works perfectly.
Answer by qwakrz, Wednesday 2nd of July 2008 18:52
I will just add that the GTX7950 card does not support any HD acceleration (supports DVD acceleration but cannot offload H264 / VC1 decoding) so all processing will be done by your CPU but it should be able to handle the loads required but any background tasks could cause the stutter.
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• Scary update from YL02 to YL03
Question by opticalex, Saturday 28th of June 2008 22:24
I just thought I'd share my experience with the LG Super Multi Blu GGW-H20L. I am using it over USB2.0 using a Sitecom CN-330 adapter and Windows XP x64. My drive was supplied with the YL02 firmware and after disconnecting from the network and closing down most applications, I ran the GGWH20L_YL03.EXE file which I got from the LG website. After what I think was more than 20 minutes of "please wait" agony, I got the scary message I am posting. That's when I thought I had ruined my brand-new drive. Still, when I powered off the drive and on again, it worked just fine and has now the YL03 firmware. I suspect the reason for the error message must have been the USB to SATA bridge, but it could also be my x64 setup. All is well now and I'm very happy I got this drive. I am also attaching a DVDinfo screenshot for reference.
Answer by ~KIPPER~, Tuesday 1st of July 2008 06:13
Welcome to the Forum Opticalex

Let us know how your burning goes after this firmware update.

You are a brave man to update using a USB to SATA bridge. I only trust installing all ODD internally and update from there and then move them back to USB or eSATA enclosures.
Answer by qwakrz, Wednesday 2nd of July 2008 18:55
Just got my 2nd GGW-H20L and done exactly the same as you.

The one in my main PC worked correctly as it is linked via an Intel SATA connector on the mobo.

The one in my HTPC slim case is using a USB2 to SATA daughter board as it sits ontop of the unit (would love a slimline version of this drive) and it also failed with the same error but the drive works without problems when it had been power cycled after the flash.
Answer by opticalex, Saturday 12th of July 2008 13:48
Before the update, apart from some DVD+R discs I had only burned that BD-RE from LG that comes with the drive, and that worked fine. After the update, I have been burning some DVD+R DL discs from both imation and philips, with no problems. But today I tried burning a data compilation on an imation BD-R disc with nero and it says the medium format is corrupted. I am attaching info about the disc and the burn log. Thoughts anyone?
Answer by opticalex, Sunday 13th of July 2008 09:25
opticalex said:
But today I tried burning a data compilation on an imation BD-R disc with nero and it says the medium format is corrupted. I am attaching info about the disc and the burn log. Thoughts anyone?


Here's the DVD Identifier output for the same disc.


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Unique Disc Identifier : [BD-R-SL:PHILIP-R02-000]
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Disc Type : [BD-R SL : Class 0 - Version 1]
Manufacturer Name : [Philips]
Manufacturer ID : [PHILIP]
Media Type ID : [R02]
Product Revision : [000]
Stamper Date : [Not Present On Disc]
Layer Info : [1 Layer (L0) : 25.03 GB (23.31 GiB) Per Layer]
Blank Disc Capacity : [12,219,392 Sectors = 25.03 GB (23.31 GiB)]
Recording Speeds : [1x , 2x]
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** INFO : Hex Dump Of 'Media Code'-Block Listed Below
** INFO : 4-Byte Header Preceding 'Media Code'-Block Discarded
** INFO : Format 00h - Disc Information
0000 : 44 49 01 10 00 00 62 00 42 44 52 01 12 01 00 00 DI....b.BDR.....
0010 : 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 19 4e 7e ..............N~
0020 : 01 ec 64 64 28 28 28 28 23 23 23 23 00 00 00 00 ..dd((((####....
0030 : 44 3d 7e 0a 0a 5a 16 89 a0 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 D=~..Z..........
0040 : 18 20 20 20 20 70 00 70 00 70 00 70 00 68 00 68 . p.p.p.p.h.h
0050 : 00 68 00 68 00 70 00 70 00 70 00 70 00 a0 a0 c0 .h.h.p.p.p.p....
0060 : c0 c0 00 00 50 48 49 4c 49 50 52 30 32 00 00 00 ....PHILIPR02...
0070 : 44 49 01 10 00 01 62 00 42 44 52 01 12 01 00 00 DI....b.BDR.....
0080 : 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 19 4e 7e ..............N~
0090 : 03 d7 64 64 28 2d 2d 2d 23 23 23 23 00 00 00 00 ..dd(---####....
00a0 : 64 55 7f 06 06 4b 18 89 90 10 10 10 10 18 18 18 dU...K..........
00b0 : 18 20 20 20 20 60 00 60 00 60 00 60 00 58 00 58 . `.`.`.`.X.X
00c0 : 00 58 00 58 00 60 00 60 00 60 00 60 00 90 90 a0 .X.X.`.`.`.`....
00d0 : a0 a0 00 00 50 48 49 4c 49 50 52 30 32 00 00 00 ....PHILIPR02...
00e0 : 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00f0 : 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0100 : 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................

(lots of zeros deleted)

0dd0 : 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0de0 : 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0df0 : 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
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[ DVD Identifier V5.0.1 - http://DVD.Identifier.CDfreaks.com ]
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• Problem installing GGW-H20L
Question by kitzj00, Friday 27th of June 2008 03:18
Hi everyone


I just purchased the GGW-H20L and after putting drive in the computer windows loads up and immediately crashes. I keep getting the blue screen which says IRQL_NOT_LESS_THAN_EQUAL. Does this mean there is an IRQ conflict with some other hardware on my system? How do I fix this problem?

My hardware setup is:
Base processor
Athlon 64 X2 (W) 5600+ 2.8 GHz (89W)
2000 MT/s (mega transfers/second)
Socket AM2
Chipset
GeForce 6150SE nForce 430
Motherboard
Manufacturer: Asus
Motherboard Name: M2N68-LA
HP/Compaq motherboard name: Narra2-GL8E
Answer by zaina, Friday 27th of June 2008 04:57
M2N68-LA uses Nvidia chipset which often not so friendly with SATA burners.
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c00906129&lc=en&cc=de&dlc=&product=3397528

First try updating the drivers from the website above.
Please report back.
Answer by kitzj00, Friday 27th of June 2008 14:59
I updated the drivers for NVIDIA nForce Serial ATA Controller Driver and that did not solve my problem. I also chatted with live hp support online and they suggested a new video card, which I successfully installed. That did not solve my problem either.

My BIOS recognizes the drive when I hook it up and check before loading windows.

Would one of those pci SATA ports solve my problem?

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8552363&productCategoryId=abcat0507011&type=product&tab=2&id=1188561245880#productdetail
Answer by zaina, Friday 27th of June 2008 17:59
kitzj00 said:
I updated the drivers for NVIDIA nForce Serial ATA Controller Driver and that did not solve my problem. I also chatted with live hp support online and they suggested a new video card, which I successfully installed. That did not solve my problem either.
I guess the nvidia nforce SATA adapter is not compatible.


Would one of those pci SATA ports solve my problem?

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8552363&productCategoryId=abcat0507011&type=product&tab=2&id=1188561245880#productdetail


You can try. But the one that guarantee to work based on many members experience is Syba SD-SAA-4P PCI SATA here
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815124020
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