I gave up worrying about fixing what seems to be a "random" problem and just
went to 8x burn rather than 12x which seems to have made it go away. It
really doesnt take much longer.
One more thing, I also found out that if you reboot (not restart) first, and
then burn with a "clean" system the problem doesnt normally happen.
"adamomarc" wrote:
> Thanks, but I have read those before. Still hasn't solved my problem.
>
> Why did, at one point, my external burner burn full discs at 3/4 minutes,
> and now it's taking ten times as much time? I just don't understand. I
> probably have burned 20 or so CDs that were done in three minutes.
>
> "Byte" wrote:
>
> > Buffer Underrun
> > http://www.infopackets.com/freenewsa...r+underrun.htm
> >
> > Beginners Guides: Burning CDs and DVDs - PCStats.com
> > http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.c...eid=742&page=3
> >
> > "adamomarc" wrote:
> >
> > > okay, I'm using Nero and I have an external CD burner.
> > >
> > > whenever I burn discs, buffer underrun protection always comes up. some CDs
> > > come out right, but it tends to take 30 to 40 minutes. I recently installed a
> > > new harddrive, but prior to this I was using the external burner and it
> > > burned full 700mb discs in 3 or 5 minutes.
> > >
> > > I have looked on multiple websites to solve this. All are suggesting me to
> > > not open any programs and that I may not have enough disk space. Well, I have
> > > around 110gigs for free harddrive space, and I usually burn with no programs
> > > running.
> > >
> > > I updated the USB driver, even the IDE driver since someone said something
> > > about that. But yet, nothing. It was working perfectly fine. If anyone can
> > > help, please do so. I would be forever grateful.