(Problem Fixed) Seriously, why does my CD Burner take so long to burn a CD?

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KhoiFather

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I have a Lite-On LTR-24102B which is a 24X burner. Everytime I try to burn a CD, it takes so long. My Recorder Buffer Level / State and the other Buffer level are always so low. If they would stay high, it would burn my CDs a lot quicker.

Everytime I try to burn a CD, it would record, stop, wait until both of the buffer level or either one, goes up then starts recording again, so the whole time, the blinker light on my rewritable keeps going from Red to Yellow over and over.

Sometimes when I'm making a music cd, it'll take up to at least 20 minutes to finish burning about 700MB.

How come it won't just stay at Red and keep recording? I tried changing some settings to help keep the buffer level up but it doesn't seem to work well. Anything I can do?
 
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Lifer
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Originally posted by: KhoiFather
Yes, the only other thing on the same IDE cable with my cdrewritable is my DVD rom.
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are the 2 drives ..burner and DVD..jumpered correctly..and what machine is this..OS ..burning prog..etc. tia
 
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KhoiFather

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Yes they are, my rewriteable is on the master jumper and my DVD is on the slave jumper.

I'm using Windows 2000 and using Ahead Nero with the lastest update.
 
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Lifer
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Originally posted by: KhoiFather
Yes they are, my rewriteable is on the master jumper and my DVD is on the slave jumper.

I'm using Windows 2000 and using Ahead Nero with the lastest update.
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is DMA enabled or is your drives stuck in PIO mode..check in DevManager..not sure if this applies..but in WinXP(a NTFS file system..) the OS will ratchet your mode downward(currently my drives are at Ultra DMA2..on the secondary) when it encounters trouble/issues(media,files,etc. ..) have seen it drop down to PIO..the cure (in WinXP..not sure on Win2k..) is to delete the secondary IDE controller and reboot to allow a rebuild/renewal of IDE..as always YMMV
 
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tomstevens26

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Maybe I'm on the wrong track here...but are you using a VIA chipset? On several machines I've built using VIA I've had lots of burning issues until I installed the 4in1/Hyperion drivers.

Tom
 
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How often do you defrag your HD?

What do you have running in the background? (virus scanner?)

What drive/folder do you have the temp (for burning) set to?


You have something going on that is keeping the drive from being able to provide a sustained...
(doing quick math)... 3600 KB/s; which any modern drive should be able to handle.
 
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KhoiFather

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I'm not sure if it's VIA or not, but it's an E-Machine 600ix that was upgraded a little. I know the company of the mobo is Tri-Gem.
 
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KhoiFather

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I haven't defragged my hard drive in a while so hmmm maybe I'll do it tonight.

I have the Norton Antivirus running in the background but I know for a fact that it isn't that, that is causing the problem.

My temp folder is at C:\DOCUME~1\ADMINI~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\
 
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tomstevens26

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Originally posted by: KhoiFather
I'm not sure if it's VIA or not, but it's an E-Machine 600ix that was upgraded a little. I know the company of the mobo is Tri-Gem.
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If that is the original mobo that came in that machine then I don't think it's using a VIA chipset...at least not according to this page. I wish I could help more but I'm out of ideas. Hopefully defragging will work but I wouldn't get my hopes up. I really can't see where even a highly fragmented drive would cause that much of a problem in burning. Maybe if it's a real small drive and the data you are burning is scattered all over the place. Good luck!

Tom
 
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Like ScrapSilicon said you need to go check and see if both your hd & burner had DMA enabled.

Go into device manger,then go into ide/atapi controllers, then go to primary and seconday setting and make sure DMA is enabled.
 
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How fast is your CPU? How much memory do you have? Do you have any other programs or TSR's running? It sounds to me like your computer can't keep up with your burner. If your CD burner and/or DMA settings were the problem, your buffer from the hard drive would still be at 99-100%. Since your buffers go to zero and your burner stops burning, it sounds like the burner is waiting for the rest of the computer the catch up.
 
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Originally posted by: KhoiFather
I have a Lite-On LTR-24102B which is a 24X burner. Everytime I try to burn a CD, it takes so long. My Recorder Buffer Level / State and the other Buffer level are always so low. If they would stay high, it would burn my CDs a lot quicker.

Everytime I try to burn a CD, it would record, stop, wait until both of the buffer level or either one, goes up then starts recording again, so the whole time, the blinker light on my rewritable keeps going from Red to Yellow over and over.

Sometimes when I'm making a music cd, it'll take up to at least 20 minutes to finish burning about 700MB.

How come it won't just stay at Red and keep recording? I tried changing some settings to help keep the buffer level up but it doesn't seem to work well. Anything I can do?
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The light means that burnproof is in effect, btw.

Perhaps you should ask here ?
 
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chizow

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I have the same burner and ran it fine on 2 different VIA mobos. Also runs fine on my A7N8X. There was a firmware update that I did once, haven't needed to upgrade since then (haven't checked for another either). It takes about 2 1/2 minutes to burn a full CD of MP3's or files.

Chiz
 
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KhoiFather

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Well I just found out my Secondary Setting was on PIO and not DMA, so I'm hoping that will fix the problem.

 
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KhoiFather

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Originally posted by: ketchup79
How fast is your CPU? How much memory do you have? Do you have any other programs or TSR's running? It sounds to me like your computer can't keep up with your burner. If your CD burner and/or DMA settings were the problem, your buffer from the hard drive would still be at 99-100%. Since your buffers go to zero and your burner stops burning, it sounds like the burner is waiting for the rest of the computer the catch up.
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It's a Celeron 600mhz ( Yes I know it's slow, but hey, it's good enough) with 256MB of PC100.
 
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Lifer
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Originally posted by: KhoiFather
I'm not sure if it's VIA or not, but it's an E-Machine 600ix that was upgraded a little. I know the company of the mobo is Tri-Gem.
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funny...had helped a young man with a 566 Celeron Emachine..put a 40x12x48 Memorex in his rig..burned CDRs speedily ..even with only 128MB pc100 and an almost full 8.4GB HD..as alway YMMV :)
 
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KhoiFather

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Great, the problem is fixed! Thanks for the help everybody and have a great and safe Happy New Years!!!!!
 
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Lifer
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Originally posted by: ketchup79
Just for our enlightenment, how did you fix the problem?
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Oeiginally posted by: Khoifather
Well I just found out my Secondary Setting was on PIO and not DMA, so I'm hoping that will fix the problem.
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by fixing/repairing his DMA
 
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