my lg 8320B only records cdr at 8x and cdrw at 4x
tried upgrading to firmware 1.04 but that didnt solve the problem.
want to send it back to where i bought it but i am not sure if upgrading the firmware violates the warranty
so i would like to downgrade to 1.01 before i send it back, but can't find that version on the net.
the label on the drive says firmware 1.01 so i think its a good idea to downgrade before sending it in

any ideas and/or suggestions or a link to version 1.01??

upgrading firmware do not woid warranty as long as you use the officially released firmware upgrades.

You have made sure that it's not your CD-R discs that is causing the problem? Some drives is picky about media.....

And the CD-RW disc must be a high speed CD-RW to get speeds higher than 4X

yeah, i used the official firmware. thanx for the information, i hope they know that, too...

i tried all kinds of different media (cdr that is)

with cd-rw's it only does 4x instead of 10, also tried different highspeed media

i even stuck the drive in a different (clean) system and freshly installed software but it did the same there

so i figure it must be the drive (hopefully)

i sent it in now, lets see what they make of it...

sent it in
got a new drive from the manufacturer after 2 weeks.

works just fine

happy me

Hi!
I updated my GCE-8320B to v1.04 but since, my drive is sooow slooow that I think I can outrun it writing on paper with a felt pen!

Yeah, my media might not be the best, but now, a 4min burn @v1,01 is now over 6min!!! I noticed in nero CDspeed that the drive does not burn faster than 20x on this media anymore. I did run the test before updating to v1.04 and the drive DID get (and held) 32x at the end.

So, I want to go back to v1.01 please!

If not, I will have to try my multifunction electronics components tester on it You know, the one that,s rectangle shaped with two electric contacts on one end? A "+" near one of them?

Drive details:
Made january 2002, orig. v1.01, 8mb
Used as Sec Master, on VIA chipset mtb, uses Win2000
Reflashed 3 times just to be sure, and ok all the times!

Thanks!
Martin

ve2mrx

I have pm'd you. I have the v 1.01 FW saved as a .bin file if you want it?

Cuss

hi
do you still have the v1.01?
bin/hex - do you know how to (de)code them?
i have gce-8320b 8mb - and the v1.04 renders my drive useless :-(
i want to try v1.01 to check if it is just the firmware - or something else - before putting gce-8400b onto it ;-)
otherwise i will get problems with LG when i send it in for warranty
thanks