by TexasMike » Fri Jan 01, 2010 4:40 pm
JamesR311,
I agree with daythem on this one. I am using Ultimate Edition versions from 1.8X32 through 2.5X64 on systems from P4 2.1GHz to Core 2 Quad 2.83GHz. All my systems have both IDE and SATA Hard Drives as well as some with both SATA and IDE DVD and CD drives. The only problems I have ever had with a DVD drive in Ultimate Edition is a bad drive, bad cable or bad disk (DVD), including the current installation of Ultimate Edition 2.5 X64 on my Shop PC which has a Sony IDE DVD/CD-R/RW and a Plextor SATA DVD/CD-R/RW, and my Home system with the same configuration of DVD/CD drives. I installed Ultimate Edition 2.5X64 on my Home system last evening via the Sony IDE drive without incident or problems.
Insure the .ISO file you are using is good via MD5SUM (apparently that is OK as you said you burned to USB drive and all went well), and that any DVDs you may burn from a "known good" .ISO file are burned at the slowest speed you can set the burner for - recommended 4X or slower. BTW: My Plextor SATA DVD drives
will not burn slower that 12X selected speed - actually it burns at 7X or 8X when 12X is selected - but I cannot
select a slower speed than 12X, and I get a bad burn from these drives about 1 time out of 10.
So, were I in your situation, I'd try a new cable 1st - preferably an "80-conductor" smart cable and set my drives to "Cable Select", and give it another try....
Shop PC:
Motherboard: ASUS Sabertooth 990FX TUF (The Ultimate Force) R2.0
CPU: AMD FX 9370 @ 4.4GHz Bulldozer Eight Core Black Edition
Ram: 16GB Corsair Vengance Dual Channel DDR3 1600MHz
Video: ATI 7770HD GHZ Edition 2GB PCIe 3.0
Hard Drives: Seagate 2TB, Seagate 500GB, Maxtor 500GB
SSD Drives: OCZ-Vertex4 128GB, Samsung SSD 840 EVO 500GB
DVD Drive: Plextor PX-L890SA
Power Suipply: RaidMax Modular 1200Watt
OS: Ultimate Edition 3.4.2x64, 4.2x64, 2.6x7x64
Home:
Motherboard:Gigabyte GA-Z77-DS3
CPU: Intel Core i3-3220 3.3ghZ
RAM: 8GB DDR3 1600MHz
Video: nVdia GTX650
Drives:1TB SATAIII, 2ea 500GB SATAIII,
SSD: Samsung EV840 mSATa 250GB
CD/DVD: Plextor PL-890SA
Monitor: Samsung SyncMaster T260
MultiBoot OS: Ultimate Edition 3.4.2x64, 4.2x64-Lite, WIN7x64, WIN8.1x64
Power Supply: Corsair 850Watt