increasing the size of the cache

[Guest]

Hello -
I'm not much of a teckie but I've been running into the "under run buffer" error in Roxio 5.3 while trying to make CDs from music files on my hard drive. Software used to work fine so I'd like to increase the cache size to see if that will help. Can someone tell me how to find the option in Windows XP professional. that will allow me to do that? Thanks

 

[John A]

I don't know about cache, but try deactivating your antivirus software
and running nothing else while recording

Also try reducing the CDRW write speed in Roxio

John Allen

 

[Guest]

Delia,

You probably are on the wrong truck. Most likely Windows Virtual Memory (also called Paging File) has nothing to do with your problem.
Troubleshoot Roxio. Visit the publisher’s web site, etc.

Hope this helps.

 

[Alex Nichol]

I'm not much of a teckie but I've been running into the "under run buffer" error in Roxio 5.3 while trying to make CDs from music files on my hard drive. Software used to work fine so I'd like to increase the cache size to see if that will help.

That would be a setting within the Roxio software, not an OS cache, so
you had better check at their site. But I don't think it would really
help much. A couple of suggestions, though:

Go to Control Panel - System - Hardware - Device Manager and look under
IDE ATA/ATAPI disk controllers for Primary Channel or Secondary
channel, whichever the CD burner is on. Double click, look on Advanced,
and make sure the Transfer Mode is on 'DMA if available'. If it is, but
the CD item is nevertheless using PIO mode, highlight the main driver,
immediately above Primary Channel, and Action - Uninstall. OK out and
reboot for Plug n Play to try again.

Second, make sure you keep the hard disk defragged, so that the heads do
not have to skip around.

And finally, if you still get under-runs, set to a lower burn speed in
Roxio: better take a little extra time and have it work