EAC takes forever to load

[Special K]

I have EAC and while it's a great program to use one it loads, it takes forever to load for some reason when there is a CD in the drive. The HD will show constant activity for about 30 seconds before the program will finally load. If I run the program with no CD in the drive it will load fine, but then as soon as I put one in the same thing will happen. Task manager shows it as not responding during this time, but if I wait it will eventually work fine. Does anyone know about this problem or have a fix? My cdrom drive is an asus s500 if it matters.

 

[Adrian Tung]

Same thing here, having an Asus E608 (8X DVD). Takes forever to load when a disc is already in the drive, and when there's none, it loads up fine but sometimes after inserting a disc it takes forever to recognize and read it.


atwl

 

[Special K]

Oh well right now im using cdex and it seems to be as good as EAC. I'll just stick with this if no one knows of a fix.

 

[PliotronX]

Have you tried installing an ASPI layer?

 

[Workin']

Originally posted by: SpecialK
Oh well right now im using cdex and it seems to be as good as EAC. I'll just stick with this if no one knows of a fix.

Just remember you must enable paranoia mode in CDEX for it to provide any kind of error-checking.

Are you using the latest version of EAC? What OS?

 

[Special K]

I have the latest version of EAC on winXP pro (although I had the same problem on win2k also).

 

[Workin']

Hmmm, did you set it up using the Wizard? Did it always do this or is it something new? Maybe it's trying to contact freecddb without luck?

 

[Special K]

It's always done this. I don't think its freedb, as I can access that just fine once the program starts.