I've got a Ricoh CD-RW and a Compaq Presario 233mhz/160MB RAM (I added a bunch). I try to burn CDs of wavs or mp3s and find that it works if I only do a couple of songs, but four or more songs cause it to zonk and have write errors. I got the drive replaced and have the same problem. Any helpful hints?
More per CD?
- Thread starter Monkey
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Hey Monkey,
Here is the help you are looking for. http://www.pixelite.com/windaw/win95_setup.html
Here is the help you are looking for. http://www.pixelite.com/windaw/win95_setup.html
drstawl
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Is this limitation related to the total # of MBs you're writing to the CDR? And were the write errors buffer under-runs? Make sure you have everything else turned off when you're burning a disc. You didn't say what speeds are supported by the Ricoh drive. And don't try to burn from the last 650MB on your HD.
Access of this data is slower than normal and could ruin a CDR.
Access of this data is slower than normal and could ruin a CDR.
Grizzly, I appreciate the info, but could you give me a few words on the memory and stuff the page refers to? Do you think my problem is related to the virtual memory etc that it mentions? How? Like I said I have a lot of RAM so if I can take advantage of that fact in any way it would be great... sorry I don't know much about this, but if you can give me a clue I think I could make a lot more use of that page... sorry and thanks.
DrStawl, I mostly have the problem with audio stuff, but also if I try to burn a lot of files onto a CDR. I was able to burn a good bit of my .wav collection onto a CD-RW not long ago, though, and I wondered if that had anything to do with whether the laser can be interrrupted on a CD-RW... I have the same problem regardless of whether I'm trying to do it at high speeds or just at 1x. I've also tried other software besides Nero...
About that "buffer underrun" thing. A computer guru friend mentioned that. I don't know what that means or how to check if it's happening but he said something about the order in which the drive was connected on the cable inside the computer. Later he said he didn't think that was it but I don't know why or how to tell. He said my drive should be the slave drive of the hard drive. Is this right? How can I make sure it is set up that way if so? (Am I asking too many questions??)
DrStawl, I mostly have the problem with audio stuff, but also if I try to burn a lot of files onto a CDR. I was able to burn a good bit of my .wav collection onto a CD-RW not long ago, though, and I wondered if that had anything to do with whether the laser can be interrrupted on a CD-RW... I have the same problem regardless of whether I'm trying to do it at high speeds or just at 1x. I've also tried other software besides Nero...
About that "buffer underrun" thing. A computer guru friend mentioned that. I don't know what that means or how to check if it's happening but he said something about the order in which the drive was connected on the cable inside the computer. Later he said he didn't think that was it but I don't know why or how to tell. He said my drive should be the slave drive of the hard drive. Is this right? How can I make sure it is set up that way if so? (Am I asking too many questions??)