It certainly could. Burn speed was critical to us downloading new builds
for Vista beta. The slowest possible burn speed was the most successful.
Dvds we burned at "normal" speeds failed half the time.
If these are discs you burn yourself then burn speed is very likely a
factor. Speed and quality are definitely trade-offs when burning media.
"The Power99" <ThePower99@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Its really hard to tell. There seems to be no consistent pattern. It reads
> some music Cds and some game dvds/movie dvds (for example it read C&C
> Tiberium wars and its expansion but not age of empires 3 expansion) but
> beyond that i cannot see anything similar. As for formats they seem to be
> irrelevant to whether it works or not,
>
> this might be unimportant but could it possibly the speed that the disc
> was
> burnt at that is the factor?? even though the other identical laptops can
> read the same discs
>
> thanks for the help