CDRW MS-8348A freezes during burning

I bought a CR48-A(MS-8348A) CDRW drive two months ago, and it was burning just fine for a month on my winxp box.
Now all of a sudden, i am lucky if it will even burn at 12x.
there are two things that can happen:
1: Using nero 5, the memory reserve fills to 100, the write buffer then fills to 8%, and all of a sudden the drive spins up faster, then slower, like its having trouble reading the CDs. It basically does that forever until i reboot the PC since nero freezes and the writer wont stop
2: it starts to write, gets to maybe 30% approx, then spins up and down as if it is having trouble reading. about 2 min later nero reports "No seek done" and stops writing.
so i have done this:
- tried different CD media (3 brands)
- updated firmware to 150d.
- Used CD ROM dry cleaning cd
- useda little air duster to try and blast any dust off the lens.
- isolated the CDROM on its own IDE channel (its master on secondary)
I am basically out of ideas, and my first experience with MSI products has seriously made me rethink about getting their kt4 motherboard and ti4200 vid card.
Can anyone help or suggest anything that might be the problem, or do i just need to RMA?

I have the similar problem. Previously, I use the msi 8340 CD-RW. After two
months, it become defective and can't read any disc. Then, it was returned for a
replacement. The dealer gave me a new MSI 8348 CD-RW insteaded. However,
this CD-RW is much worser than the one before. The speed of the specification of
this product is 48x16x48x. However, I can't get any writing speed faster than 16x
successfully. It is a new product but it can't compatitable to the high speed CD-RW.
I've e-mail to the support but do not get any replies. Their support is very bad.
The discs are place to different CD-RW to try again, they all works fine. I try to
call the retailer, but they do not give me any supprot just said that burnning with
high speed will casue error just recommand me to use low speed to burn any discs.
Perhaps, they already known there exists some problems of this CD-RW.
Does anyone fix this problem?

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