I just put in my DVR-105. I've tried Nero and Gear Pro DVD Demo, on Ritek 2x DVD-R's @ 1x. With both programs the whole PC freezes when the it starts recording. ????

Try one of those pioneer stickies on the top of the forum.

I did try those. What kind of updates for the drive could I download, if any.

Does HDD space matter? I only have 1.8GB left on my HDD?

1.8G ain't a lot of freespace.

I heard that on the pioneers the minimum hdd space needed is about 40gb.

not sure if this is true but i heard that some where.

:)

well, i only have 20 gig free on my 40gig drive and it works fine, so that can't be true

well i did say that it might not be true.

Im sure it was on the pioneer website on the recommendations for the drives.

again, I could have dreamt it, but im sure it was true

never mind.

:)

or could be that your power supply isn't powerful enough, what system you got, what have yoiu got running off your powersupply.

if you have a midrange system, and two cdrom dvdroms dvdrw or such stuff and all the other stuff associated with a pc, you need a minimum of 300w and preferably 400/450watt. if the dvdr drags too much power out that would cause system instability

Best to have around 20-40% freespace on all drives. This is nothing to do with DVD's it is just better for general perfomance.

Originally posted by xdeity
or could be that your power supply isn't powerful enough, what system you got, what have yoiu got running off your powersupply.

if you have a midrange system, and two cdrom dvdroms dvdrw or such stuff and all the other stuff associated with a pc, you need a minimum of 300w and preferably 400/450watt. if the dvdr drags too much power out that would cause system instability

He is very right about that aspect. I had a 300 watt PS when I put in my a03, and my system was kinda flaky for about 2-4 days, then one day I got home and no power. I put in a 430 watt antec PS, and everything is cool. I was running 3 HD, 3 CD/DVD drives, along with 5 fans + the one on my video card, and it was just too much, and the extra drive put it over the top. Fried it like an egg......

And with 1.8 Gb left, you need another HD, so there is even MORE power consumption. I picked up a WD 7200 w/8mb buffer and 120 Gb space for 200 bucks at CompUSA a few months ago, to replace 2 40 Gb Maxtors. eBayed them off and got all my money back, and reduced my load to 2 HDD instead of the 3 before.

You should also get a performance boost for encoding if the source and output are on seperate drives.