Burning issue when multitasking?

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BlitzSix

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Hey guys..

On my old computer, whenever used the computer while I burnt a music CD, it would turn out horribly, and skip all the time. The only solution was to either

a) Write on max speed but leave it 100% alone with nothing running the background

b) Write on a very slow speed.

Now, I got a whole new computer, but I'm using the same burner. It's much better, but it still gets messed up when I'm actively doing a lot of stuff.

Movies and data are (or appear to be..) fine, but music skips.

So, is this a burner issue? The CDs I use (Sony regular CD-Rs)? The RAM (currently using only 2 GB, going to buy 2 more soon)? I don't think it's the CPU as I got the quad core q6600. Running on Vista.

This is the burner I have, it's a bit old but I'm not going to replace it if it's not the problem.

http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/Reviews/Specific.aspx?ArticleId=14845


Thank you


PS. Anyone running Vista have a cannon camera? I've tried two differnt ones (one is brand new), and it can't find drivers for it. I download their stupid software, and it still won't load... can't find the camera. Not really sure what to do.. I don't want to have to buy a memory card reader but it seems I may have to since canon didn't seem to bother making a working Vista driver

Thanks.
 
BlitzSix said:
PS. Anyone running Vista have a cannon camera? I've tried two differnt ones (one is brand new), and it can't find drivers for it. I download their stupid software, and it still won't load... can't find the camera. Not really sure what to do.. I don't want to have to buy a memory card reader but it seems I may have to since canon didn't seem to bother making a working Vista driver

Thanks.
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That's odd.. We have an XTi and an S2IS and all I did was load the Canon driver for the XTi, and the S2IS was detected automatically, no problems at all..Home Premium 32bit on both machines.
 
Well, you should ideally not be doing anything major on the computer when burning anyway. And using a slower speed never hurts.

Older burners are much more susceptible to compatibility issues than modern ones. A bigger buffer wouldn't hurt, but 2MB is fairly standard for DVD burners. What software are you using? Some work much better (and have better "make it work even if I'm doing it wrong" options).

Vista should support most digital cameras with no special drivers...you might want to, I dunno, say what model you have or something. :rolleyes:
 
Thanks.

I'm using Nero to burn usually. Any other recommendations for audio cd burning?

And, I guess I will just not use it while it burns, it's okay it's fast anyways.

I can still just browse the web and go on msn right? Or should I leave it completely alone?

I think I was rendering videos ors omething hardcore before.

But uhh, I'm still having the driver issue.

I tried it on 3 cameras, none work. When I connect it it says installing software, and then it says it failed. I installed the software that came with it but it's just the stupid program for messing with the pictures, it doesnt seem like there are any drivers on it? It still can't detect the camera after I install it. I couldnt find ANY drivers that work..

Models:

Canon Digital Ixus 750 (European model 1-2 years old)
Canon SD850IS (Bought form Best Buy less than a week ago)
Canon SD 1000 (Also bought form best buy less than week ago)

Thanks. I'm running Vista Ultimate 32 Bit...
 
I find music skips for me if i am ripping a cd and i start doing other stuff.

also, i have a cannon powershot A520, i never installed any software for it, i just plugged it in and windows found it and i can just take the pics right off of it no problems.
 
You might want to get a new burner, they are $30 now days. I have an old amd x2 2.4ghz with 2gb ram and I burn stuff and play games at the same time and I don't have problems, only time I had a problem was I used a disk that had some scratches on it, thought it would be fine but it didn't burn right. (Mega run on scentence!)

On the camera, I have a Cannon sd750 and Xp won't even recognize it, but I have a card reader so I haven't really tried to fiddle with it.
 
Something thats worth a go...
Chances are the software you are burning with requires more CPU than you would hope for and doesnt know how to use the Burners features for continuing an incompleted write.

Try setting the affinity of the Burning software to each one of your CPU cores to see if using one of them will let it continue a burn uninterrupted whilst gaming.

ps I have the Pioneer 107D which is older than your 110.
I havent suffered a failed write for so long I cant remember and using Nero 6, if it doesnt have enough CPU, it pauses until it can continue the burn.
 
BlitzSix said:
I'm using Nero to burn usually. Any other recommendations for audio cd burning?
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Try using the burning function in Windows Media Player and see if it makes any difference if you'd like. I think the following explains the issue, though.

BlitzSix said:
I can still just browse the web and go on msn right? Or should I leave it completely alone?
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That much is probably fine.

BlitzSix said:
I think I was rendering videos ors omething hardcore before.
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That would explain the bad CDs...
 
As mentioned above, if you're rendering video while burning, then there's your problem! I've also had problems while burning .ISO's, but turning the write speed down a notch or two solved it for me.
 
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