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 ?

Re: major lag cd and dvd burning
 

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 :)

Re: major lag cd and dvd burning
 

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 :)

Re: major lag cd and dvd burning
 

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

Re: major lag cd and dvd burning
 

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

Re: major lag cd and dvd burning
 

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 :)

Re: major lag cd and dvd burning
 

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

Re: major lag cd and dvd burning
 

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.........

Re: major lag cd and dvd burning
 

bring task manager up before you start burning :)

Re: major lag cd and dvd burning
 

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

Re: major lag cd and dvd burning
 

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

Re: major lag cd and dvd burning
 

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

Re: major lag cd and dvd burning
 

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

Re: major lag cd and dvd burning
 

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