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Nero Burning Rom Slows Computer -- FIXED!!!

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SatishM

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Hey,

I run the latest Nero Burning Rom (5.5.10.20), Nero has always slowed down my XP Professional Computer (AMD 1.53GHz, 256MB Ram, 40GB HDD) whenever im making CD's (600MB file from HDD to CD). I use the Iomega ZipCD 3840INT-A (12x10x32) CD-RW Drive, and when I used this on a 200Mhz MMX w/96MB RAM with Windows98, I would multitask and I would not notice any serious performance problems. When I run it on my XP computer, I only have 8-12MB ram free, and as soon as the program finishes writing to the CD, ram is freed up and my performance is back up again! Are these problems with the newer versions of Nero? Because I use the older (Still 5.0 though) version on my 200MHz. I don't understand why my system would slow down while doing such an easy task. I have to wait 2minutes after I right-click for the menu to pop-up!

About my computer: Yes, I already have DMA "on" on all drives, I have the latest driver for everything in my system (this includes Chipset drivers also).

Please Help

-Satish M
 
I have my drives configured exactly as on the 200MHz MMX:

Primary Channel: Master: Hard Drive
Slave: None

Secondary Channel: Master: DVD-ROM Drive (ofcourse, on the 200MHz, its a CDROM)
Slave: CD-RW Drive

-Satish
 
Did you configure Nero to copy an image to HD before burning to the CD-R/CD-RW? Check to see if such option is not enabled.
 
Hey,

DMA mode is already ON on all drives. No, the copy image to HD is not selected, and im not copying from CD to CDRW. Im copying a 600mb file from HD to CDRW ( i mean a writable cd not a rewritable)

-Satish
 
Found this on ntfs.org:

Go to "administrative tools" in the control panel, and in the "services" list, disable the IMAPI CD-Burning COM service. (Note: manual setting is not enough it must be disabled) It is the built-in CD-burning capability for windowsXP (incidentally, written by Roxio). Once it is disabled, Nero will start up much quicker.


It only mentions startup slowness, but it might be worth a try.
 
It might be copying all to memory, then to the cd. When the cd is done burning, the data for the cd is still in memory, and when you close nero, it dumps it out.
 
my athlon Xp1700+ w/ gig of ram slows down a lil when i burn at 40x. most noticablly when off the drive with windows on it. If its comes from either of teh other 2 drives its not so bad.

Nero does use alot or ram for the buffer and it cashes it to mem to be able to write that fast. this is why you see a slowdown.
 
Originally posted by: kranky
Found this on ntfs.org:

Go to "administrative tools" in the control panel, and in the "services" list, disable the IMAPI CD-Burning COM service. (Note: manual setting is not enough it must be disabled) It is the built-in CD-burning capability for windowsXP (incidentally, written by Roxio). Once it is disabled, Nero will start up much quicker.


It only mentions startup slowness, but it might be worth a try.
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WOW i did that just for teh hell of it. and WOW it does load alot faster
 
Hey,

I guess waiting for a little while isn't that bad. Its just that (i think) anandtech had an article (correct me if i'm wrong) about copying a cd, and playing quake3 at the same time on a laptop and it was smooth. It might also be my slow hard drive (maxtor 5400RPM 40GB, which I bought back in 2001) and little ram (256) for an XP computer. I have seen a huge increase in performance when XP gets 512MB of ram. I will disable that service as soon as I get on the desktop, i am on the laptop right now.

Thankx for all help!

-Satish
 
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