[Pepsione1]

I just recently got a 40x liteon burner and upgraded it to a 48x by flashing the bios. Then I found out that my system was too slow for buring audio cds at 48x (even 24x was a little too fast). I had a celeron 550 and win2k installed. So I upgraded the processor to a PIII 1.0gig and shortly switched to XP Pro (from win2k). I was able to burn cds at 48x after I got the new proc. before I went to XP. Ever since I switched to XP Pro, I can't even burn them at 40X.

It doesn't burn coasters or anything because burnproof is in effect but it does slow down significantly after burning half the cd. There is no point of getting a 40x burner and burn cds at 24x (i do audio cds mostly). I blame this on my slow computer and mostly on XP Pro (cpu hog

).

So what can I do to tweak my system so it will burn cds at full 48x again? I do defrag regularly and set page file (static, set for foreground service) on a seperate drive (same kind of drive, maxtor d740x, on seperate ide channel) and set nero cache file on seperate drive also. All programs all closed prior burning and yet nero is still using over 95% of CPU cycle.

By the way, I have Nero 5.5.9.13

 

[NotoriousBIG_PJ]

Try tweak3d.net

Biggie.

 

[Ctn]

cacheman

 

[bootman]

Make sure you turn off the added eye candy in xp.
(system properties/advanced/performance/settings)
Also turn off system restore and remote assistance
(system properties/system restore/)
(system properties/remote)
This should help.

BTW what file system are you running?
(Fat32 or NTFS)
How much system memory do you have?
128 meg is the min with XP.
256 meg is recommended.
Good luck.

 

[wallijonn]

download the latest nero update (i think it's at 5.5.9).

remove the old nero software.
install old nero software.
install nero update.

the reason in removing the old nero software is in case there's a conflict with the XP media recorde software (are you running media player 8 or 9?). this will default the burner software to media player.

after rebooting (just to be safe) and install the old nero software, the file associations should now point to nero. and updating nero never hurts (in your case it's minimal since you have a lite-on).

next, WHAT MEDIA ARE YOU USING? i've only seen 40x cdr's. try www.cdrinfo.com (i take it that's where you downloaded your bios) and check for acceptable 48x media. me, i like tdk and maxell (although i got a "free" 100 40x Philips when bestbuy was giving a $20 instant rebate, $5 bestbuy mail in rebate & phillips $15 mail in rebate).

and if you burn mp3's, do NOT use media player. you may want to use cdex and set to 320 and hq=9 (highest quality).

 

[CaptBubba]

That kind of hard limit to cdburning suggests to me that it is either a HD controler issue or just a slow/fragmented HD.

Make sure the cd-rw drive is on a different channel from your HD, and make sure your HD is defragged. If you have an older HD you may have trouble. Make sure DMA is enabled in the BIOS. Nero has a speed check feature built in that will tell you how fast your HD is, so run that, it has been fairly accurate in my experience. If you have an older HD you may not be able to burn cds at full speed.

 

[wallijonn]

you are burning from the hd to the burner and not cdrom to burner, right?

do you have any problems reading your cdr's on home cd players? i would think that 12x would be max to burn in that case.

is the 48x bios upgarde on the lite-on website? i haven't updated mine in a while.

 

[SumB]

Quote:

I do defrag regularly and set page file (static, set for foreground service) on a seperate drive (same kind of drive, maxtor d740x, on seperate ide channel) and set nero cache file on seperate drive also.

Bad idea, unless you've got the cpu cycles to spare and your secondary hard drive is faster.

On my P3 933 Nero's cpu usage is 15-20%.

 

[Pepsione1]

My computer has 384mb of ram and it is using ntfs for file system. When it burns a data cd, it usually use up about 10-15% of the cpu cycles and it becomes significantly higher when i burn a audio cd (95-98%). All the drives are on its own channel and DMA has been enabled already in bios & windows. It does seem like the drive/controller is the bottleneck for my system because it can burn data cds at the same speed just fine. It seems like its the conversion from mp3 to .wav file that is slowing the computer down to the point where it can't keep up with the burner and leaving the burner's buffer empty.

Should this be happening? Should a PIII 1.0gig processor be sufficient for burning audio cds at 48x?

 

[bootman]

Ok, I didn't know that data CDs was burning ok.
That does rule out an I/O problem.
It just might be that performing the conversion on the fly while burning @ 48K is a bit too much for that P3.
You could convert to the hard drive first and burn at 48 later but that will take longer than just burning on the fly @ 24X.
Bummer.

 

[NotoriousBIG_PJ]

I burn everything at 4x speed on my anthlon xp 1800 gforce 3 hehe..

Biggie.

 

[andrzejpw]

Quote:

Originally posted by Pepsione1 My computer has 384mb of ram and it is using ntfs for file system. When it burns a data cd, it usually use up about 10-15% of the cpu cycles and it becomes significantly higher when i burn a audio cd (95-98%). All the drives are on its own channel and DMA has been enabled already in bios & windows. It does seem like the drive/controller is the bottleneck for my system because it can burn data cds at the same speed just fine. It seems like its the conversion from mp3 to .wav file that is slowing the computer down to the point where it can't keep up with the burner and leaving the burner's buffer empty. Should this be happening? Should a PIII 1.0gig processor be sufficient for burning audio cds at 48x?

hmm, I think this might be the case actually. You're converting from mp3 to cd audio(wav). Not sure. . .

 

[aeberbach]

I find XP a real hog. On my 1GHz PIII laptop the mouse doesn't even move smoothly with XP installed. It might be IBM's fault but it was just fine with 2000. If it wasn't for cleartype I would remove it.

 

[Joe Bloggs]

Not sure you want to burn it that fast anyway... the burn quality could be very bad. Have you tried ripping CDs you burnt in EAC?

I have a 40x burn CDRW drive but the fastest I tried to burn was at 24x.

 

[gloco]

Quote:

Originally posted by NotoriousBIG_PJ I burn everything at 4x speed on my anthlon xp 1800 gforce 3 hehe.. Biggie.

Why?