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PostIcon Posted on: Apr. 04 2001,08:30  Skip to the next post in this topic. Ignore posts   QUOTE
I FINALLY BOUGHT A CD BURNER (again)!!!

Anyway, first I burned a copy of a rare Japanese CD. Then I burned POoR NOtation - LUDE CONDUCTor (Demo V53.13E-1).

Anyway, they both have little skips, pops, jumps ALL OVER! Like at least 1 every 2 minutes, but sometimes there's a patch of 5 or 6 small ones.

WAZZUP WIT DAT!?!?

Do I need to record at a slower speed than 8X? Any specific options that can help this? Do I need to kick myself in the nuts (once I can figure out how to do it while balancing on my other leg)?

SPECS: HP CD-RW Plus and it's like 32-8-4 (or something like that), and I'm using Adaptec DirectCD. My machine is 550MHz, 64MB RAM, Win98, and my other drive is 8XDVD. The discs are Imation CD-R 74min 1x-8x.

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FUCK! Now my DVD player doesn't work right either! It only reads the first half of the movie, and then has an illegal operation if I watch (or select a scene) past that! Sometimes of my DVDs resets my puter! One of my DVDs makes cows in tutues dance across the screen!!! Oh wait... that's just my Dancing Cows(tm) DVD... I guess it works fine cause it's only 20 minutes long...

ANY help!?

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Well, for starters, you're really only supposed to burn audio at around 2x or 1x. Don't know why, but that seems to be the rule of thumb I've heard... especially with 64 Meg of RAM, and Win98.

Get Win2K... or WinXP. Millions of times more stable, and life will be easier.

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it might be a gay motherboard problem... i suppose you have them both on the same ide channel. are the modes set correctly in the bios and windows, ie udma and stuff? not sure if it needs it, but is the master/slave jumpers (if there are any) configured correctly? besides that, get more ram and get a new motherboard.

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PersonGuy, I had the same problems with my CD-R/DVD combo, even though the CD-R was the only device on its SCSI chain. The problem turned out to be with power. Make sure you're not daisy-chaining a whole bunch of fans and drives before you get to the CD-R. Try to make it so that they're not sharing a power cable at all, if possible.
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burn at 2X - will try

win2k - not for me, sorry

ide and jumpers - all good and fine already

scsi chain - mines internal... is this still a factor? And I'm down to my last power cord... should I just switch with the floppy drive?

Oh, and I contacted HP tech support. They said to screw with the DMA settings in Device Manager. I tried all 4 combos ( ON ON / OFF OFF / ON OFF / OFF ON ) for the 2 drives but it didn't seem to help this (although it DID fix a DIFFERENT bug! )

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Try updating your version of ASPI from Adaptec's website. I've heard that fixes quite a few burning problems.

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I've never known anyone that had really good luck burning above 2x. Especially audio CD's. But look at the bright side. Now you have some kinda cool coasters.

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My best advice to you would be to ditch DirectCD ASAP. That is so shitty software right there. You don't need to be able to drag and drop burn in explorer. Thats just asking for trouble.

Get rid of that and use EasyCD Creator by itself, or get Nero or CDRWIN.

After that, make sure both of your drives have DMA turned ON. right click on 'My Computer', goto 'Properties', 'Device Manager', and double click on your CDROM drives. make sure the DMA check box is enables on both.

[Interesting side note: my HP 9110i Burner worked fine for a year w/ DMA on, but the past 6 mos it's been screwing up all burns except audioCD.. I called tech support, and they suggested turning DMA off on BOTH drives, and it actually WORKED. of course accesses are slow as hell, but at least burning works again..]

Also before you start a burn make sure all other programs aren't running, and ctrl-alt-del and turn everything off except of Explorer and Systray. Then start your burning software and you wont have to worry about other stupid little programs stealing resources.

I dont know where you guys heard that audio is harder to burn, thats the type of CD that worked the most consistantly for me. I'm not saying your wrong, just relating my expereince I've never had to go under 8x to burn it, and i've burned probably 50-60 audio cds. data on the other hand....

for more than you ever wanted to know about burning: http://www.cdrinfo.com/

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Whenever I burn audio at higher than 2x I get glitches between tracks. Could also be the software I'm using but I don't really give a shit. I just set it for 2x and start it before I go to sleep.

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