CD burning speeds suck. sometimes....

[Toobernoober]

Hey guys.

Sometimes when I am buring CDs to my hard drive from a audio CD it will go really fast, I am talking really fast. When it goes fast I can actually hear the CD drive spun up making a fan type noise. Sometimes though it will go really really slow, snail like. When it goes slow I can not hear the CD drive spun up like a fan. There is no rhyme or reason to when it goes fast or when it goes slow. Sometimes it will burn a CD really fast for half the CD then start going slow, sometimes it will start slow then get fast, sometimes it will rip the whole thing fast, sometimes it will rip the whole thing slow. I can even re-rip the same CD right after I ripped it and it wont rip at the same speed. I have tried ripping with Window Media Player and CDBurnerXP pro 3 and both gave the same results. And while it burns fast or slow there is the same 10% average usage of the proccesor.

Any thoughts?

My specs are-
NCR dvd/cd burner
e6600
asus p5b dlx
patriot 2gb ddr2 800
Windows XP

Thanks in advance,
Cole

 

[GooG]

maybe something with your drivers