Posted 07/07/2008 at 04:09:29pm

Yipes, the same thing happened to me 2 years ago on a Samsung.  And I was about to plop my money down.  Guess I'll wait awhile to see how other users fare with this burner.

I agree, Maximum, you guys should "burn in" a burner just like you would a new build.  Not to change the subject, but I just built a new machine especially for Vista.  I used a Lite On and a Samsung DVD burner from the system I just tore down.  They are bothe IDE.  For two weeks they ran fine.  Then I downloaded SP1 for Vista, installed it, and now I cannot load drivers for them.  Vista sees them as SATA instead of IDE.  I think that's the problem.  But I can't even load a CD or DVD to try and load a driver .  Tried downloading, nothing works.  That's why I wanted that Samsung SH-S203.  By the way, my mobo is an Asus M3N-HT Deluxe.

Did not mean to hijack the thread! Rock on, Maximum!!!!