slow cd burning

[Matt Garman]

My dad's PC previously had an aging CD burner (meaning it was pretty
slow). I installed a Lite-On Black 48X24X48X16 Combo Drive, Model
LTC48161H BK, OEM. With this new burner, it still takes 12--15 minutes
to burn a CD. (I have the non-combo version of this drive, and I can
burn a CD in about three minutes.)

His system stats are as follows:

- Abit KT7 (Via KT133 chipset)
- 768 MB SDRAM
- 1 GHz Athlon Thunderbird

He is running Windows 2000 and the burns were done using Nero Express.

Note also that we tried watching a DVD in this computer, and it was
pretty jerky (sound and picture had noticeable delays). Even without
hardware video acceleration (Matrox Millenium g450 AGP), shouldn't an
Athlon 1 GHz play DVDs pretty smoothly?

Any thoughts on how I can more accurately diagnose the problem?

Thanks,
Matt

 

[Sal Monella]

My dad's PC previously had an aging CD burner (meaning it was pretty
slow). I installed a Lite-On Black 48X24X48X16 Combo Drive, Model
LTC48161H BK, OEM. With this new burner, it still takes 12--15 minutes
to burn a CD. (I have the non-combo version of this drive, and I can
burn a CD in about three minutes.)

His system stats are as follows:

- Abit KT7 (Via KT133 chipset)
- 768 MB SDRAM
- 1 GHz Athlon Thunderbird

He is running Windows 2000 and the burns were done using Nero Express.

Note also that we tried watching a DVD in this computer, and it was
pretty jerky (sound and picture had noticeable delays). Even without
hardware video acceleration (Matrox Millenium g450 AGP), shouldn't an
Athlon 1 GHz play DVDs pretty smoothly?

Any thoughts on how I can more accurately diagnose the problem?

Is DMA enabled for the drive?

 

[BigJim]

may I suggest that you install it on the secondary ide channel as the master
and enable dma
this may solve your problem. one other thing the speed of your media
determines your burn speed, in other words. 16x media will slow the burning
process down where 48x will increase it.
the cdrw disks have speed ratings

 

[Shep©]

My dad's PC previously had an aging CD burner (meaning it was pretty
slow). I installed a Lite-On Black 48X24X48X16 Combo Drive, Model
LTC48161H BK, OEM. With this new burner, it still takes 12--15 minutes
to burn a CD. (I have the non-combo version of this drive, and I can
burn a CD in about three minutes.)

His system stats are as follows:

- Abit KT7 (Via KT133 chipset)
- 768 MB SDRAM
- 1 GHz Athlon Thunderbird

He is running Windows 2000 and the burns were done using Nero Express.

Note also that we tried watching a DVD in this computer, and it was
pretty jerky (sound and picture had noticeable delays). Even without
hardware video acceleration (Matrox Millenium g450 AGP), shouldn't an
Athlon 1 GHz play DVDs pretty smoothly?

Any thoughts on how I can more accurately diagnose the problem?

Thanks,
Matt

The free small program that comes with Nero called,"Nero Info Tool"
can tell you if your drives are in DMA mode as they should be.If you
don't have this you can download if freely from,
http://www.cdspeed2000.com/go.php3?link=download.html
If you are burning Cds on-the-fly e.g from one Cdrom drive to another
the Cdrom devices should be placed on separate IDE ports.
If you are burning from an image or making compilations then the hard
drive should be on a separate IDE port from the burner.
Also,
http://www.tweak3d.net/tweak/win2kmem/2.shtml

HTH



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[R. Asby Dragon]

My dad's PC previously had an aging CD burner (meaning it was pretty
slow). I installed a Lite-On Black 48X24X48X16 Combo Drive, Model
LTC48161H BK, OEM. With this new burner, it still takes 12--15 minutes
to burn a CD. (I have the non-combo version of this drive, and I can
burn a CD in about three minutes.)

His system stats are as follows:

- Abit KT7 (Via KT133 chipset)
- 768 MB SDRAM
- 1 GHz Athlon Thunderbird

He is running Windows 2000 and the burns were done using Nero Express.

Note also that we tried watching a DVD in this computer, and it was
pretty jerky (sound and picture had noticeable delays). Even without
hardware video acceleration (Matrox Millenium g450 AGP), shouldn't an
Athlon 1 GHz play DVDs pretty smoothly?

Any thoughts on how I can more accurately diagnose the problem?

Did you scan his machine for spyware/trojans etc ? Unnecessary
programs runing in the system tray ?

I'm not a Win 2000 expert; but I've seen all the above cause
problems in all versions of Windoze when burning CDs/DVDs or playing
DVDs .