Re: major lag cd and dvd burning
 

:erm: CPU usage not ram mate.

Re: major lag cd and dvd burning
 

that was one of the first things i checked all set to 'DMA if available'


sorry not having a good day , but nothing affects my cpu usage apart from what i stated.

yep i do that regulary, just did it now all clean :D

Re: major lag cd and dvd burning
 

and you aint installed xpsp2 have you ????????????? , i have just noticed a weird thing since installing it , kazaalite is acting all kinda weird :erm:

Re: major lag cd and dvd burning
 

im not that thick lol :D i dont install stuff like that until its final, even then i have to take great consideration in to it actually being worth the effort and risk....

Re: major lag cd and dvd burning
 

fair point :) , just trying to cover all the bases :D :D :D

Re: major lag cd and dvd burning
 

so no one has any other ideas as to how to solve this problem ? :(

Re: major lag cd and dvd burning
 

Where is nero's cache set to ?

Re: major lag cd and dvd burning
 

16mb

Re: major lag cd and dvd burning
 

Actually I said where - that figure is the minimum reserved size ;)

As it happens I set that to 64 MB but I'm not sure it has any great effect.

Re: major lag cd and dvd burning
 

adding and removing the secondary IDE channel seems to have done the trick.

thanks for all your help guys :)

Re: major lag cd and dvd burning
 

Hard drive pre failure? How old is it?

www.adenix.com has a smart explorer you can use

Re: major lag cd and dvd burning
 

What drives have you got and on which IDE channels are they ?
If as you say everything was ok, then it looks as if you have only bypassed a problem and not fixed the cause :shrug:

Could be a cause, Had this happen to me a couple of years ago :shrug:

Re: major lag cd and dvd burning
 

primary channel has hard drive.

the secondary IDE channel has a dvd-rom and dvd-rw on it.

i dont know if it is the hard drive, the pc is not that old in to its second month.

Re: major lag cd and dvd burning
 

I always tend to run my Hard Drive & DVD/CD on the primary IDE channel, and if I do happen to have a CDRW/DVD then I whack that on the secondary channel.

Re: major lag cd and dvd burning
 

Is that the way it is now ?? Did you have the burner on the same channel as the hard drive ? I've been told that this can cause the underrun problem due to trying to read and write at the same time :dunce: Just what I've been though myself in my sticky fumblings :shrug:

Yep, as I thought I was told :p: