Burning slower than it should! HELP!

AMDUW

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Mar 25, 2002
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Hello,
Ok here is my system. An AMD 1.4Hgz proccessor. MSI K7T266 Pro mother board with 512mb of DDR ram. A 40.gb Quantum hard drive, with a Yamahaa 16X CD burner hooked up slave to it. The other IDE has a DVD drive. The problem is that I am getting buffer underruns with the Cd burner running it at over 8X. I am also running Windows 2000 SP2, with all of the upgrades and everything. I am fine on hard drive space as well. Say I am burning a Music Cd, or a Data Cd, I will do a test run at 16X and after about 30 seconds I will get a buffer underrun. The buffer will start at 100% then 70-40-20-10-0% Then close the CD. I will close all applications running in the backround as well and it will still give me an underrun error!!! It is really annoying me, I know the CD burner has a built in 8mb buffer built in which is great. It has burned fine before, but it just started doing this. I know that the proccessor can go fast enough, same with the hard drive....so WHY the underrun!?!?! PLEASE HELP, any info will help me. I have also re-formatted and everything and still nothing. I have tried Easy Cd 4-5, Nero, and CD clone, all the same underrun happens...? So any ideas feel FREE to let me know. Thanks a lot. You can e-mail me at brookn19@mio.uwosh.edu. Thanks
Nathan
 

bacillus

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<< The problem is that I am getting buffer underruns with the Cd burner running it at over 8X. >>


if you're burning from hdd image then having the cdrw on the same ide channel as the hdd will lead to buffer under runs.
if you're burning on the fly when this happens, check in device manager under ide controllers to see that all your drives are using dma transfers!
 

AMDUW

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Mar 25, 2002
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One of them was set to PIo, so I set it to "DMA if available" I will check and see if that works. I just switched it to the same IDE as the hard drive cause it was having problems before when it was not on the same one as the hard drive.
 

AMDUW

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Mar 25, 2002
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Got it all figured out...it was the DMA channel, I don't know how that dumb thing got changed, I could have sworn it was set the correct way. Thanks again