major lag cd and dvd burning
 

hi all, i have a problem with my pc when i am burning a cd or dvd the pc lags alot and the dvd burn speed is affected drastically because the buffer fluctuates alot, also nero reports over 100 buffer underruns prevented :erm:


its been happening the past few days, i have made no changes to the system in that time.

anyone know whats going on ?

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Does your CD Burner use the same IDE channel as the HDU?
Try a Defrag of the HDD or move the temp folder away from the drive with the swapfile
Potentially you've got some bad memory I've found with this error or disk problems

Re: major lag cd and dvd burning
 

the drives are on seperate channels i was thinking about defraging the drive, i hope its not bad memory :erm:, will defrag it tonight and let you know.

thanks tricky :)

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a nice hard drive is the key to burning - if u can chuck it in a spare pc

good luck have a defrag and a fiddle with the ide channels :)

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diskeeper trial version says my hard drive is 67% fragmented :Yikes:

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ok well the defragmentation excercise did not help, neither did the memory test came out all clear :(

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assuming you are on xp , have you had task manager up when you are burning to see what the processor usage is ????????? :)

when i encode a dvd using dvdshrink it is solid 100% usage , when i burn using nero then it barely uses any processor power at all :)

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Yeah, check for a program hogging CPU usage (seti@home?) thats most likely to be the cause especially on slower machines.

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nothing hogs ram, apart from norton, but its only been happening the past 3 days, it was fine before that :erm:

tried that and it wont bring the task manager up, while im burning.........

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bring task manager up before you start burning :)

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system Idle process fluctuates alot 1-89% , also nero goes between 3-90% at times, also happens with other burning progs....

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can you do a system restore back a couple of days and see if that cures it ?????????? :)

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i dont know why but windows xp will not allow me to restore any earlier than yesterday :erm:

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i assume that you have done the usual adaware etc stuff :erm:

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maybe a silly question - apologies if you have covered this Kronas, but have you checked DMA is enabled for all your drives?

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:erm: CPU usage not ram mate.

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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

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

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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....

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

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

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Where is nero's cache set to ?

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16mb

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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.

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

thanks for all your help guys :)

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Hard drive pre failure? How old is it?

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

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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.

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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.

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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:

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nope, its been like that since day one, im just relieved i solved the problem....

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Pleased your up and running again but what did you do that has 'fixed' the problem :confused: :confused:

You say <snip> adding and removing the secondary IDE channel seems to have done the trick. <snip> please explain to me for my future reference :tu:

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i would assume it has been done in device manager , seems weird that doing this cured the problem , never mind if it works then so be it :D :D :D :D

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I didn't know you could remove a whole channel :shrug: :D

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Yeah, seems weird that it fixed the problem :erm:

Did you remove them from under the IDE ATA/ATAPI tab and then reboot and let the computer find them again?

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just checked in device manager and it appears as though you can the same as any other device , i.e. a dvd player , i didnt do it in case windows didnt find it again :disturbd: :disturbd: :disturbd: :disturbd:

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OK now i'm :confused: I looked but could not see where \ how to remove a whole channel, and even if you could, surely you would need to re-install all drivers for devieces on that channel ??

Just asking not argueing :Peace:


EDIT : All is clear now :D

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you got it in the end , sorry i could have been more specific in where it was in device manager :dozey: me :D :D :D :D

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Not you m8, I have not messed around with this pc much ( not needed to ) lol think its time i got all my spares out and got my hands ( and mind ) dirty and build up a system head scratching and all, back up to speed as it where ...lol :dunce:

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yep, i watched my drives dissappear from my computer, rebooted, burned a cd and it worked fine :erm:

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i got a power calibration error while using ulead video studio noooooooo :(