burners as resource hogs?

[PotatoMAN]

I tried searching for some help on this, but didn't find anything. I have a Lite-on 24X and whenever I burn something at full speed, it just slows down my comp to a near halt. I look at my CPU activity, and it is constantly at 100% usage, while the read and the recorder buffer are going CrAzY! When I go to a slower speed, it records fine, and I can do other things on my system. What I want to know is if other people are experiencing this same dilemna with their high-speed burners. Thanks!

Specs:

Athlon (200FSB) 1.2
ECS K7S5A
1x512 megs DDR RAM
40 gig quantum fireball 7200 RPM HDD
12X Hitachi DVD
SB Live! Value
WinXP Pro build 2600
Leadtek TV2000/XP
Gigabyte Radeon 8500Le 64meg

 

[nightowl]

Check and make sure that DMA is enabled for all of your drives. Since you said that you have full CPU usage when you are burning CDs this sounds like your problem. You may need to enable it in the BIOS as I seem to remember reading that the K7S5A had those options in the BIOS.

 

[PotatoMAN]

Yeah, it was enabled. I am using Nero 5.5... I dunno if that matters. Whenever I burn beyond 16X it really makes my comp nearly unusable.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

i think its a combination of windows, and the program you're using to burn.

burning in win2k/nero, the computer slows way down, mouse gets choppy, etc. pretty bad.

recently got burning working under linux, and when doing that (just via cdrecord, no big prog), i can only tell it's burning from the drive making noise