Using to much CPU power

[Fares_Halteh]

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Im running a 1.2 tbird, 764 RAM, A7V, plextor 12/10/32A. When I rip a cd it uses full cpu power and never passes the 10.5x barrier. Also I cannot seem to burn passed 10x. 12x always fails and I notices that CPU power when burning 10x coasts just around 75-85% but once i raise it to 12x it hits 100% and than fails within the first minute. Do I have something not properly set up? is there anything I can do about this? it just doesn't seem right to me. Thanks

p.s. I do recall a time when I was able to burn at 12x and rip at 17x, it hasn't done this for a long time though.

 

[lhgpoobaa]

ummmm
only thing i can think of is do u have DMA or UDMA mode properly enabled?

i know win2k has a habit if DISABLING DMA transfers when doing a reinstall...
once i tried to burn a cd. it was taking 100% processor capacity (this is on an athlon 1350 mind) and got 137 avoided buffer underruns!
later i found it was reset back to PIO mode!

check your hardware under control panel -> system, both the drives themselves and the IDE controllers

hope it helps

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[Guest]

I've found with my HiVal 40x CD-ROM. Only CDDex will rip CD's at high speed. Other rippers don't take use the diggedy dog mode high speed modes.

 

[CoOLMaNX]

enable DMA; I had the same problem where I couldn't burn at 12x because it would lag like hell, but DMA fixed the problem

 

[Guest]

Same problem... using a plextor 16x and win xp (amd1400ddr). UDMA is enabled... Seems that scsi is not a bad solution...