Hi,
Well, the main suspect is now the burner hardware, i fear.
Hardware or firmware. I'n afraid you might be right :(
[...] My house is completely Gates-free :)
As long as we live gatesfree there is not much
of a difference. (There was some firmware flasher
about a year ago, if i remember right ... google ...
was it http://binflash.cdfreaks.com/ ?
... NEC, TDK ... MAD DOG (?) ... no ASUS on the supported list.)
All in all burners are black boxes to me.
A little bit too far away for me. I'm at the west coast of the Netherlands.
I'm at about 300 miles up the river.
Too far a shopping tour, indeed.
(Now the americans laugh at us. :))