Pioneer BDR-202 hard reboots system in Encore CS3

Question

I am having a problem where Encore CS3 hard reboots when building my project at the point where it starts to actually write data to disc. The weird thing is it works absolutely fine with a BD-RE and will not work at all with BD-R media from the same manufacturer (TDK). I've tried creating an image and then burning, and it still happens. I'm not sure what's wrong and I really don't want to be stuck with a drive that only does BD-RE's (which we just ended up having to send to a client).
After the system hard reboots, Windows XP comes back up stating it recovered from a serious error and when I look into the error it appears device driver related, though it doesn't say exactly which driver. I've also tried using IMGBURN software and the Roxio software that came with the drive and I get the same problem.

Answer 1

Windows XP does not support Blu-ray natively. In fixing that problem, I suspect that either anydvd or powerdvd may have installed bits that are causing your problem with Encore.
To meet your deadline, create a Blu-ray image in Encore, and then burn it using ImgBurn:
http://www.imgburn.com/
Then, when you have time - try to troubleshoot your system to find out why Encore doesn't see the Blu-ray drive correctly.