Buffer Underrun

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.

Buffer Underrun
http://www.infopackets.com/freenews...er+underrun.htm

Beginners Guides: Burning CDs and DVDs - PCStats.com
http://www.pcstats.com/articleview....leid=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.

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/freenews...er+underrun.htm
>
> Beginners Guides: Burning CDs and DVDs - PCStats.com
> http://www.pcstats.com/articleview....leid=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.

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/freenews...er+underrun.htm
> >
> > Beginners Guides: Burning CDs and DVDs - PCStats.com
> > http://www.pcstats.com/articleview....leid=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.