First off, a big thanks to moonknight for helping me through many steps of this seemingly long process of getting back to playing burned games.
And nufcmickey - I read through that thread, but not sure what to take away from it.
So I tried moonknight's advice, and still when trying the disc in the console, it just sits there reading for a while, then goes to "open tray". To cofirm what I did:
- I opened up the EEPROM util, went to options, and checked off "Smart Burn" and "Over Speed Writing" (I didn't see an "overburn" setting like moonknight mentioned, so hoping he meant "Over Speed Writing").
- I clicked the Clear OPC History button
- I then opened the .dvd file in IMGBURN
- I set the speed to 4x (which confused me a little, cuz I thought for the MKM-001-00 discs, I was supposed to burn at 2.4x?)
- Here's another confusing part - the advice to set buffer size to 512mb. There's 2 places I can set a buffer. I set the one under Settings | Build tab | Page 2 tab to 512mb. But there's another buffer setting under Settings | I/O tab | Page 2 tab. Did I perhaps set the wrong one?
- I then burned, which seem to work fine.
- I then ran KProbe2. I'm not sure what I was supposed to see with that, but the following it the results txt file it output:
Date : 3/24/2012 6:29:49 PM
Model : 1-0-1-0 ATAPI iHAS124 B AL0S
Disc : DVD+R DL , MKM001 [Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation]
Speed : Max
ECC blocks sum (PI/PIF) : 8/1
Scanned range : 0 - 4267019
Sampling count : 248952
Errors : 0
PI Max : 244
PI Average : 4.41
PI Total : 138497
PIF Max : 16
PIF Average : 0.15
PIF Total : 4639
Again, I REALLY appreciate everyone's help in trying to help me figure this out! Any other ideas on what I may be doing wrong? This was so much less hassle with my old Sammy
Thanks in advance for any further advice, and please let me know if there's any other details I should provide.
Just for ha-ha's, I asked the guys on #JungleFlasher, and they suspect I have a weak laser? They point me to this link:
http://team-xecuter.com/forums/showpost ... ostcount=1
This is a refurbished xbox I bought from gamestop, but it sounds like the weak laser issue can happen even on a new unit. I'm a little nervous about tweaking the POT, so would love to here further advice here before I take a crack at that.
Also, I'm reading some stuff on Kprobe, and someone suggested the PI Max shouldn't be over 100, and PIF Max should be above 4. As you can see above, both my values are over. Could this be my problem? If so, what can I do to lower those values on next disc I burn?