How often do CD burns fail?

[Citadel535]

I bought Easy CD Creator 5 for my burner (hp cd16ri) and have messed a couple of burns. I was wondering how often should burns fail?

I have a 1.2GHz Athlon with 640MB RAM and only running ZoneAlarm. I have ruined (well the computer actually) 3 out of 12 burns. Is this normal?

 

[John]

I haven't had a bad burn in a long time. You might want to put your CDROM on a separate IDE channel from the CDRW. You could also try NERO instead of EZCoaster Maker.

 

[Citadel535]

LOL man

I just shelled outo $60 for it so maybe next time Nero. I do have them on separate IDE channels.

 

[Citadel535]

BTW HOLY CRAP! U got a lot of posts! I am working on getting them up there!

 

[saltedeggman]

haha

aren't we all are working our way up?

 

[John]

Try new 4-in-1 drivers and the PCI latency patch from here



<< BTW HOLY CRAP! U got a lot of posts! I am working on getting them up there! >>



I will sell you 5K posts for $100.00 paypal, LMK.

 

[saltedeggman]

<<
I will sell you 5K posts for $100.00 paypal, LMK. >>



try ebay

 

[LethalWolfe]

I dunno what yer doin' wrong, but yer doin' something wrong When I first got my burn I made some coasters figuring everything out and what not, but I haven't had a bad burn in over a year (I got my burner a little over a year ago).


Lethal

 

[Trader05]

Check your aspi drivers! go to fireburner.com and d/l aspi check

 

[bennyboy]

I have a lite-on 32x and nero 5.5.x.x and i never get any bad burns!

 

[tboo]

What OS are you using? If your using XP there is a known problem of cds burned in XP not working at all or only working in XP & no other OS. There is a fix at windows update

 

[ViperVin2]

definitely get nero or another burning prog instead of the buggy ezcd creator.... sell ur HP burner and buy a burner with burn proof?

 

[osage]

I have to go along with John and the rest of the ppl, try diff software.......diff burner.

love my Plex

 

[DrZone]

I agree. Plextor usually burns consistently.

 

[esc]

i have a LG collins 24x burner and it works very well for the price. never had a coaster except some file-related errors while using nero 5551.

 

[Dennis Travis]

I have a quick question for you. Are your burns from files on the Hard Drive or are you trying to Copy a CD directly to the burner? You stated you have your burner and CDROM on separate IDE channels. That is good but one thing I have found. Some CD's (especially burns and CDR/W's and some poorly made pressed CD's) will not read as fast as a well made CD. If the reading is slow enough and you don't have a burner with Burn Proof and are going directly from the CDROM to the Burner with no image file to the HDD first, you will get buffer underruns as the Reader can not keep up with the burner. What I do if I suspect a CD is try a quick file copy to the HDD and see if it copies as fast as it should. Since I have been doing that I have not had one coaster in a LONG time now. I never get a coaster burning from the HDD. Now that I check my CD's first I do not ever have a problem coping a CD on the Fly to the burner.

Also those that suggested you try Nero are correct. Ever since Roxio took over Easy CD is not the program it once was and from all I have seen Nero was always better anyway. Make sure if you are running Windows XP and you get Nero to get the latest version. Older versions will not work under XP.

One more thing, if the CD is reading slowly in the reader just have Nero use an Image file to the HDD first. Will save you a coaster every time.