Right, I can't find anything specific to that model DVD writer. So you'll have to do some investigating.
When the system freezes:
- Does the DVD continue to spin?
- Do the NumLock and such keys still change the keyboard lights?
- Does the mouse cursor still move?
If the keyboard is still working, you can probably switch to the virtual console. Do so by pressing Ctrl+Alt+F1. You can log in there and then you can analyze the running system for problems. You have six virtual consoles (Ctrl+Alt+F1 through F6), and you can switch back to the graphical desktop with Ctrl+Alt+F7 (sometimes Ctrl+Alt+F8).
One of the things to look at is your /var/log/syslog file. Usually system errors are reported there. So from your virtual console do:
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less /var/log/syslog
Go to the end of the file with Ctrl+End or just scroll down till you reach it. Looking for on and just before the time of the freeze, try to find any errors.