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CDRW Troubles ...

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Sid59

Lifer
system specs:
P3 866
512 MB PC133
PLEXTOR 40x12x40A


recently all my burns have been losing it's buffer and thanks to Burn-Proof, it's finished the CD. Haven't changed anything in the last month except a couple of updates for XP.

check DMA and both my hard drives (80 gig 7200 and 120 gig 5400) and they are both in Ultra DMA 5. Reboot many times it's all good.
also uninstalled Nero 5.5.8.2 and cleared the the registry. Then reinstalled it.

Haven't checked the cable from the motherboard to the cdrw.


What else could it be?
 
It is possible that your CD-RW drive is slowly dying, but unlikely. Have you installed any programs that would be taking up a lot of resources? (if you dont know, many times there are a lot more programs running in the background of windows that you see icons for in the system tray). Try running msconfig and cleaning up the startup tab. Maybe you need to defrag your drives ? 🙂 Does it only happen on burns from the hard disk ? or cd to cd copies ? Also, it definently wouldnt hurt to try other burning software just to make sure a file or two XP updated isnt causing any probs. Oh, and upgrade your chipset drivers 🙂 (If your board is VIA based, get the Hyperion drivers from http://www.viaarena.com/)
 
CD to CD copies won't work. it's the only drive in my computer.
just defragged my hard drive about a week ago.
I have the intel board and chipset. (Chipset :i815E / EP)


🙁

i don't wanna reformat.
 
Well i would first test out the burner in another machine to see if its the burner. I would also try some different cd-rw media to make sure they are good quality discs. sometimes when you buy a pack of them, the first many of them will work fine, but half of them dont. If neither of those work, I would take an extra hard drive, a do a clean XP install on it. that way if you need to, you can just put your drive back in and still have your xp install). Intel has chipset drivers to, usually you can find them on your motherboard manufacturers page. If a clean install works, you may keep an eye on the updates you install, and use system restore if one of them triggers it to stop working.
have you tried lowering the burn speed just a bit to see if it helps ? some burners ive delt with just refuse to work at their listed speed.
 
thanks .. ill try the reformat in a few days. Been meaning to get a solid ghost together.

Just tried 2 different medias and on NTI CD-Maker. The cache keeped bottoming out and it couldn't verify lots of the files on the cd.


later, imma uninstall the updates and try that.
 
wasn't the loose cable. it all started with new updates from ms. I uninstalled it and it occurred still.

Went and formatted and cleaned up using ghost. it's all good now.


GHOST. Use it.
 
I had a cdrw that died a slow death. It never had buffer problems while it died. It would just abort the burn part way through. The speed at which it burned successfully would get lower and lower. But maybe the visible symptoms vary depending on the cd software. Have you checked the DMA on your burner? If I had to bet, I would place my money on your drive dying a slow death rather than some sort of software problem.
 
Go into your device manager and open up the "IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers" folder tree. Delete/Uninstall everything in there and reboot your computer to allow Windows rebuild the drivers.

-psianime
 
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