Maybe O/T , but i have a question re:sys resources and burning

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i have a 1.7ghz Celron on a Asus P4S533 board with a Ati 9100 video card
, Hercules Gametheatre audio card 512 mgs of ram , and 120 gigs h/d space
on two drives and lately after upgrading to the new m/b ,processor and
video card i've had a few weird problems.

one is that whenever i burn a cd it seems to take over the whole system ,
it seems like i can't multi-task while it's burning , the whole system
starts to crawl while the cd is burning. one tech said it was the power
supply in the case i bought that it couldn't handle the pwr of the video
card , two hard drives and two cd burners , it was a P4 300w case but i
admit a cheap case. i bought another 300w pwr supply that seemed to solve
the problem for a bit but the problem is back again.

should i have bought a better case/pwr supply or is there something else
that i should look at that might be slowing the system down.

anyone have any suggestions as to what might be the cause of this or a
solution???

thanks Gord
 
LouisG said:
i have a 1.7ghz Celron on a Asus P4S533 board with a Ati 9100 video card
, Hercules Gametheatre audio card 512 mgs of ram , and 120 gigs h/d space
on two drives and lately after upgrading to the new m/b ,processor and
video card i've had a few weird problems.
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300w isn't much. I have several AMD Duron 1700+ with Antec TruPower 330w
power supplies, I've never had any problems. These are feeding (2) 80gb
drives, a dvd, a cdrw, 5 USB devices, a nic, 64mb ATI agp card, etc.

A cheap power supply can cause lots of odd problems. Spend a bit more. (I
think this PS was like 44.00 at newegg.com)
 
300w isn't much. I have several AMD Duron 1700+ with Antec TruPower
330w power supplies, I've never had any problems. These are feeding
(2) 80gb drives, a dvd, a cdrw, 5 USB devices, a nic, 64mb ATI agp
card, etc.

A cheap power supply can cause lots of odd problems. Spend a bit more.
(I think this PS was like 44.00 at newegg.com)
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i really didn't have any problems until i went to the Celeron upgrade and
going from an old ATi Rage Pro to the ATi 9100 64 meg card , everything
ran great for about 6 weeks then started to slow down and sometimes when
booting not recognizing the two cd roms , that's when the tech suggested
the upgraded 300w pwr supply , then worked great for another two weeks
and that's when the degrading of the system during burning started , so i
guess it's time to try another supply , maybe a 350w supply??
 
LouisG said:
i really didn't have any problems until i went to the Celeron upgrade and
going from an old ATi Rage Pro to the ATi 9100 64 meg card , everything
ran great for about 6 weeks then started to slow down and sometimes when
booting not recognizing the two cd roms , that's when the tech suggested
the upgraded 300w pwr supply , then worked great for another two weeks
and that's when the degrading of the system during burning started , so i
guess it's time to try another supply , maybe a 350w supply??
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350w on up should be fine. Don't get a bargain basement cheapie - some of
them don't guarantee voltages. I had a 350 piece of crap I purchased
locally...drop a GOOD 330w in, the problems went away.

Consider your power supply the fuel of your PC. If I tank up with a good 92
octane in my bmw it's happy and runs like it was designed to do. If I tank
up with 87 octane fuel from some nasty old station with water and crap in
the tanks, the car barely runs.
 
LouisG said:
i have a 1.7ghz Celron on a Asus P4S533 board with a Ati 9100 video card
, Hercules Gametheatre audio card 512 mgs of ram , and 120 gigs h/d space
on two drives and lately after upgrading to the new m/b ,processor and
video card i've had a few weird problems.

one is that whenever i burn a cd it seems to take over the whole system ,
it seems like i can't multi-task while it's burning , the whole system
starts to crawl while the cd is burning. one tech said it was the power
supply in the case i bought that it couldn't handle the pwr of the video
card , two hard drives and two cd burners , it was a P4 300w case but i
admit a cheap case. i bought another 300w pwr supply that seemed to solve
the problem for a bit but the problem is back again.
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I don't think it will be that - I have 2 HD, *three* CD/DVD devices,
(including 2 burners) and several USB devices and do not see trouble.
More likely the IDE controller used for the burner is set on PIO mode
not DMA - check in Control Panel - System - Hardware - Device Manager
and look in IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers for the Primary and the Secondary.
For each double click, and make sure devices are on 'Use DMA if
available'.

If there has been a burst of errors you may find that the device is
nevertheless on PIO and stuck there - in that case it is necessary to
highlight the master level controller (line above Primary) and Action -
Uninstall, then reboot for PnP to start over
 
Before any "burning" takes place on my unit , A warning pops up stating not
to use any other windows functions. ( XP home, HP unit, at 1.4 GHz)
May be nothing actually wrong with you system.
Good Luck
 
Before any "burning" takes place on my unit , A warning pops up
stating not to use any other windows functions. ( XP home, HP unit,
at 1.4 GHz) May be nothing actually wrong with you system.
Good Luck
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but after i did the upgrade of this system i had no problems like this at
all , it really ran quite quick.
i've upgraded the power supply to a 350w supply and i'd also found that
the cd roms were'nt using uda mode but p10 which might be a big cause of
the problem.
 
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