CD-ROM can decide its speed

[superd00k]

i have a Sony 48x/24x/48x cd burner. ive had it about two years. ive burnt only 15-20 cds and i use it as my second drive. it cant keep a constant speed. whenever i read from it (watching video/loading game/etc) it will go full speed and then drop to nothing and then slowly rev back up to full again and continues to do this. i doubt its going bad. could it be a driver issue or maybe just dirty?

second question: do i need to use my audio cable from my cdrom to motherboard. i have an asusp4p800 and cds seem to play. i always thought you needed that plugged in. i may need it for my tv tuner card to work tho. im not sure.

[superd00k]

any suggestions ppl?

[djnes]

You don't need the audio cables anymore in current systems.

It sounds like your using crappy / dirty media, or a dying drive motor. I'm had several Sony drives and thought them all to be crap, so now all 4 of my machines have LiteOn drives.

[XeRo_Dark]

some of the mice and hampsters running the power to ur cd-rom drive are on strike, you need to feed them :D

[superd00k]

well the crumbs were making a mess, what else was i to do? :rolleyes:

my brother, dad, and i all have the same sony model drive. they have no problem...
also, my other drive used to do the same thing (read-only)

[Ibanez3434]

how many watts is your PSU?

[XeRo_Dark]

well drrrr use the uber cheese sticks for the mice, and peeled sunflower seeds for the hampsters thats what i did

[superd00k]

350 watts but i dont think thats the problem because its done this for a long time
i ran a nero cd test

avg speed 24.71x
start speed 14.49x
end speed 32.57x

seek time:
random: 1568ms
1/3: 931ms
full: 1698ms

burst rate 20MB/s

[JackieChanIsGOD]

Heh, you're like me... ignorant...

It's a Sony dude. There's your first problem. If there's ANY chance of getting rid of it, do it.
My Sony does the same thing, and i've tried tons of media, tons of files from the CD, tons of everything... i think these things are flawed right out of manufacturing... also, mine is a 52x and doesn't even burn at 52x!
Stay away from Sony burners and Samsung DVD-ROMs... the latter is very noisy, and not even region-free... mostly.
If you can, get a Plextor CD burner and an LG DVD rom if you need one.

Damn Sony.

[wayne]

first question- i dont know, may be a dying drive... check if you have warranty on it and try to get it replaced if you can... if anything, its probably a dying motor... is there anything stuck in it?... gunk, grime, coffee, soda, smoke, ashes,etc?

second question- no i doubt you need that cable... its for older systems when they had to run cd music in analog signals instead of modern system that run it digitally... i m not very familiar with this info so dont flame me if i m wrong

[superd00k]

i thought sony might actually make good drives, sony tvs, sony playstation etc. too bad its not under warranty... i think it may be time for a new drive

cds seems to play fine, dont know how or when they switched it over to digital but thats fine with me, one less wire to hide in my case

[XeRo_Dark]

buy new drive there inexpensive

[scottatwittenberg]

my lite on does that with say a divx movie burned to a cd... but it might be the way windows media player buffers it... becasue i know an audio cd, or svcd playing through a dvd program will run smoothly...

all you have to do is put a comptuer in a different room and share the cd drive.. then use it over a network.. that way you don't have to listen to it... (and yes i actually do that sometimes) also.. we have 1 dvd rom in the house... but i can use it from several different comptuers and it works fine...

[wayne]

my lite on does that with say a divx movie burned to a cd... but it might be the way windows media player buffers it... becasue i know an audio cd, or svcd playing through a dvd program will run smoothly...

all you have to do is put a comptuer in a different room and share the cd drive.. then use it over a network.. that way you don't have to listen to it... (and yes i actually do that sometimes) also.. we have 1 dvd rom in the house... but i can use it from several different comptuers and it works fine...
thats pretty smart, how do you share it?

[superd00k]

to share the drive go to my computers, right click on drive you want, properties, sharing, share this folder, apply

then if you want to map the drive from another computer go here...
http://uis.georgetown.edu/software/documentation/winxp/winxp.mapping.drive.html

[wayne]

to share the drive go to my computers, right click on drive you want, properties, sharing, share this folder, apply

then if you want to map the drive from another computer go here...
http://uis.georgetown.edu/software/documentation/winxp/winxp.mapping.drive.html
and all these steps is done assuming you're already on a network right?

[Ibanez3434]

and all these steps is done assuming you're already on a network right?
Yes.