any LiteOn 811S owners around?

I'm having a weird problem with my 811S. Reading CDs and DVDs is no problem, but when I try to burn a disc, my PC freezes somewhere in the process on every 2nd attempt. I started removing any virtual disc drives, AnyDVD, even set the drive back to RPC-2 status but to no avail. Basically what happens is I start burning, and at some point the drive LED turns orange, and the PC freezes without warning. I thought maybe Nero fucks up again so I started making ISO images and burning them in DVD Decrypter and just when I thought things were finally working again, I also started getting freezes. Sometimes, even reading DVD-Rs that I previously burned leads to freezing (with the same symptom.. LED is steady orange). I use the latest drive firmware (HS0J I believe) but this has happened with the HS0E as well, and both Nero 6.0x and Nero 6.3.x. My dad got me thinking it might be a heat problem since the drive is in a Shuttle barebone, but I'm not sold to that idea yet.. the system temp is normal and the system is rock stable (7 days of 24/7 encoding should speak for itself), no crashes, no freezes, no anything except for when I'm burning . Is the 811S very heat sensitive? If so I suspect someone else must've made the same experience.

I've got the same drive, and have not experienced any freezes, cables ok? amd (via shit installed? me not) or intel board (acceleration driver installed?). However writing - (minus) disks seems nearly impossible, and even + fucks up sometimes, german CT is also not very fond of this drive (not my fault, i wanted a plextor for xmas, was too expensive for my father :-) ) Randi

I've run into the same problem with a new 811S I just received. Doom9, do you now have any more information on what causes the problem for you?

I just put DvDXcopy on my pc and it started doing the same thing...I suspect the paffin-c??? drivers of completely screwing up my system....can't delete em... They only interact with DVD not cd so that would explain why cdr still works....insert a blank Dvdr and everything freezes. Just deleted windoze and reinstalled from scratch. Everything works again now..