Do i buy a new CD writer?

[Guest]

Hey there

2 Questions really. Firstly, I have a Asus 48X CDRW drive. Usually it takes
around 4-5 minutes to burn an entire 700MB CD. However recently it has been
burning at double this speed, taking up to 11 minutes to burn a cd. Music
still burns OK, but video is occassionally of a low framerate compared to the
original on my hardisk. Is there any reason for this happening? I primarily
use Ahead Nero as my burn program. Thanks

Problem No.2:

When I now play music on my PC from my hardrive, it plays fine. But
occassionally the music will "skip" approximately 0.5 - 1 second in either
direction, forward or reverse. Its happening increasingly (either that or I'm
noticing it more). Any reason for this happening? Should I just defragment my
hardrive (although that is done every month)?

Hope you can help with this problem!


Thanks

CMO

 

[Morituri-|-Max]

Hey there

2 Questions really. Firstly, I have a Asus 48X CDRW drive. Usually it
takes around 4-5 minutes to burn an entire 700MB CD. However recently
it has been burning at double this speed, taking up to 11 minutes to
burn a cd. Music still burns OK, but video is occassionally of a low
framerate compared to the original on my hardisk. Is there any reason
for this happening? I primarily use Ahead Nero as my burn program.
Thanks

Problem No.2:

When I now play music on my PC from my hardrive, it plays fine. But
occassionally the music will "skip" approximately 0.5 - 1 second in
either direction, forward or reverse. Its happening increasingly
(either that or I'm noticing it more). Any reason for this happening?
Should I just defragment my hardrive (although that is done every
month)?

Hope you can help with this problem!

Might want to unplug the Asus CDRW drive and see if the problem persists...
could be a problem with the drive that is causing the system to check it
every so often and for long enough that it causes this skip due to the
system bus being tied up with trying to transfer to/from the drive..

Have you noticed if the light on the CDRW drive comes on at random times
with nothing happening? Could even be something stopping the drive bay from
closing all the way... is there something that might be interfering with
the tray closing properly?

 

[Alex Nichol]

Firstly, I have a Asus 48X CDRW drive. Usually it takes
around 4-5 minutes to burn an entire 700MB CD. However recently it has been
burning at double this speed, taking up to 11 minutes to burn a cd. Music
still burns OK, but video is occassionally of a low framerate compared to the
original on my hardisk. Is there any reason for this happening?

This sounds like the drive has got into PIO mode instead of UDMA. Go to
Control Panel - System - Hardware - Device Manager and look for
IDE ATA/ATAPI drive controllers.

In that choose Primary or secondary channel, according to where your
drive is connected (probably Primary, as slave) and d-click. On
Advanced make sure you are set as UDMA if available. If it is set to
that but still only offers PIO mode, then there has been an excessive
rate of errors, and the system has fallen back on PIO for safety. In
that case you have to power off and clear the source of trouble (cable?)
and then in Dev Manager select the master controller, above Primary, and
Action - Remove. OK and reboot for PnP to try again