Burner problems

bentwookie450 · Post by **bentwookie450** » Sat Aug 24, 2002 7:49 pm

I just picked up a lite on 40x burner to replace my 8x plextor. I was told that I should be burning a full cd in about 3-4 minutes, but all I can manage on a full cd is 8 minutes or more, regardless if its music or data. I was wondering if my cpu speed had anything to do with my slow burner speed. I have looked at all available firmware upgrades and have done them. I also have 40x media so thats not the problem. Thanks for any help. O, I'm also running win me, and cpu speed is 600mhz.

PreDatoR · Post by **PreDatoR** » Sat Aug 24, 2002 8:18 pm

Sounds like its your CPU speed not keeping up with the burner. I have a 550 celeron here and its all it can do to keep up with the 8X Plextor that is in it...

NascarFool · Post by **NascarFool** » Sun Aug 25, 2002 9:40 am

Make sure you have DMA enabled. What burning programs are you using ?

bentwookie450 · Post by **bentwookie450** » Sun Aug 25, 2002 2:52 pm

I've used all sorts of burning programs. I'm currently using nero 5.5, I have used easy cd creator 5, and even clone cd.

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Sun Aug 25, 2002 3:40 pm

Nero is best, and as recommended above make sure that DMA is enabled for the CD-RW drive.

Yes CPU will cause a bottleneck, but so will a slow hard drive subsystem.

If your system can't keep up then you will see the buffer indicator constantly drop to zero during burns in Nero - the drive will then throttle back to prevent a buffer underrun until the buffer fills back up again.

My old server (a P2-300) couldn't burn anything faster than 12x without running out of buffer constantly.

My new Athlon 700 server can manage 24x without running out of buffer, but at 32X it has a problem so it's no faster at 32x than 24x.

ShibasScotch · Post by **ShibasScotch** » Mon Aug 26, 2002 5:56 am

I as well have a 40 speed Lite-on, on an athlon 1.4, and it burns beautifully in 2.5-3.0 min, for a full cd, (seems to burn data bit faster.) Are you running alot of stuff in the background ? I am only asking because on my old 8x yamaha i was getting 8 min and on the acer 24x i was getting 6 on my cyrix 333, adn thats lower than a 600, so..... good luck.

bentwookie450 · Post by **bentwookie450** » Wed Aug 28, 2002 1:59 am

I'm really not running anything else in the background. No music playing anything like that. This really has me confused, I guess I'll just wait for my processor upgrade then see how the burner works then. thanks guys