Computer crashes while burning???

[peter584]

When I try to burn disc's, about 1 out of 3 times the computer locks up during the process. I have to reboot, and in turn destroy that disc. My computer is rock stable otherwise
I am running minimal background processes. I have 2600+, nvidia mobo, 768 mb ram.
Anybody have any ideas??

P.S. I have tried 2 different burners and the same thing

 

[corkyg]

It is possible that the burner tries to use a piece of memory (burnproof buffer) that is in use by the system - result - conflict and crash. That is what most crashes are - memory collisions. Is your burner internal or external?

 

[peter584]

It is internal

 

[corkyg]

I thought that might be the case. I have always avoided internal burners. Try setting a different cache for your burn proof thingy. Or - try turning it off and see what happens. Set up your material on your harddrive and do a Disk-At-Once burn and see what happens.

As an internal IDE device, is it a Master or Slave, and on which controller?

 

[Slikkster]

And on the subject of controllers, do you have them set for DMA (Direct Memory Access) vs. PIO mode? DMA uses less system resources. Ideally, you should be able to burn in the background with it without worrying about anything interfering in DMA mode.

Find which controller your burner is on. Many ways to get into Device Manager, but to make it easy, just go to Control Panel and click on System. Then, when the System window comes up, click on Device Manager.

Scroll down and look for "IDE/ATAPI Controllers". Doubleclick on that to expand that section. Doubleclick on Primary IDE Channel. Click on Advanced Settings.

You'll see listings for "Device 0 and Device 1". For each, click on "Transfer Mode". Set them to "DMA If Available".

Close that after done. Now, do the same for the Secondary IDE Channel. After finished, close Device Manager and reboot XP.

Of course, if all devices are already set for "DMA If Available", then no changes need be made and your problem is elsewhere.