Acer Aspire 5251-1513: Burning Problems

Hello All,

I recently got this Laptop and So far it worked good until I tried burning a Dual Layer DVD using ImgBurn and Nero. It completes the burning process in Nero but when I put the disk into my DVD Player it doesn't load. With Imgburn, I keep getting a verify fail: Layouts do not match error and I do everything correctly because I burned two successful DL DVD's before with this same laptop. After the first two disks, it seems that the burner thinks it's burning correctly and actually doesn't. When I put the disc back in my laptop, Autorun detects a blank disc. However when I look at the bottom of the disk I see burn tracks. I can burn regular DVD's and CD-ROM discs fine.

Anyone know why this is happening? is it a hardware failure or software problem? I don't know how to update the firmware and from what I've read, there's a 50/50 chance of killing the burner. There seems to be nothing wrong with the drivers in Device Manager. I've looked up and down the net for a solution and I'm at wit's end.

Here's what I've tried:

1.Cleaning the lens via cd-rom cleaner

2.Using different Media. I've tried Verbatims, Ridata, TDK DL DVD's

3.Praying for the disc to burn properly.lol..I know I'm that desperate to get it to work right.


Please reply and with insight to this dreaded problem. Thank you for your time.