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Why do I make so many coasters?

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Most of the time, I don't get a good CD on the first try. I made an audio CD that started skipping halfway through. Another data CD just wouldn't be recognized. And the three RedHat Linux CDs I made from images were all bad (file not found errors at certain points during installation). On the second try, they are always fine. I have a LiteOn 32x12x40; I use Nero and Win2k.

Well this is a possibility: On the second burn-attempt I don't do as much with my system (open programs, etc) because I think that might be contributing. (But I thought my CDR was buffer underrun-proof?)

I am trying to use up my 650MB CDs, so I use them first. On the second try I usually try my 700MB discs, but I don't think I am burning more than capacity. Also, I always make sure to step down the speed to 8X for the 650MBs and back to 16X for the 700MBs. So this couldn't be a reason, could it?
 
Do you have the latest or even any ASPI layers installed at all ?

You can get the latest version V4.60 Here . Just unzip and execute the Instaspi.bat file and then reboot once it has done installing them.


Do you have a lot of programs/services running in the background ? If so you might want to try and disable as many as possible.

Normally when I start running into burning issues I start to use "test burn" and then try and figure out what is causing my problem/s.


Here is a great comprehensive guide to burning bar none i've come across on the net , check this out Here
 
Yep, I used to have a lot of processes going on in the background. I just ran ASPI Check and learned that I don't have any of those drivers.

I'm running Win2k so this applies to me:

Windows NT/2000/XP do not come bundled with ASPI. You can install ASPI software on these systems using the links below. If you don't install ASPI, most CD operations will still work ok in Media Jukebox, with the following limitations:
You won't be able to do digital ripping of CD's from a SCSI CD drive. However, most CD drives are IDE which work fine.
For CD burning, you will be limited to the "generic driver" which doesn't burn CD-Text and always places a 2 second gap between tracks on an audio format CD.
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So that's what it is. I've always hated that gap between tracks. By the way, you can get version 4.7 now.
 
Is DMA enabled on the drive? Also is it on the same channel as the drive that you are burning from? In the first case enable DMA, in the second case, change channels. A good configuration would be to have your cd-roms on the same channel and your hdd's on the same channell, unless you do a lot of ripping from CD's you won't run into any troubles.
 
Hmm.. Just made another "crackly" sounding audio cd. 🙁 Sounds as if you were listening to a very low-bitrate mp3.

I am putting mp3 music onto a CD. Is it a good practice to let Nero handle the conversion of the mp3 files or should I use a seperate program?

I have two RAID ports, so my two hard disks, CDR, and DVDROM are all on seperate channels and set to 'Master.' Under IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers I have drivers that are specific to my mainboard: two "VIA BM Ultra DMA Channels" and a "VIA Bus Master Ultra ATA Controller" There's no option to enable DMA here, so from the names I'll assume its enabled.
 
Burn at a lower speed. Try 12x or something. The crappy 650mb cd's you're using probably are crapping out.
 
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