Thanks for the response, much appreciated. I had been adding components,
thinking that available slots mean I can fill 'em, without a thought to the
power supply
which I now have strong suspicions about. What I'm going to try is
disconnecting one
of the drives, and putting a couple of USB connected devices on a hub with a
separate
power supply. I'll try that until I can upgrade the PSU. Thanks again.
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From: "Chris Ryan" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 7:59 PM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] DVD Burner Problems
> -----Original Message-----
>
> Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2007 17:58:42 -0500
> From: Milt deReyna <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: DVD Burner Problems
>
> Unfortunate, helpless noob needs help with DVD burners. My system:
> Gateway 500S Desktop w/ Intel mobo, & Pentium 4 2.4 Gig cpu
> Samsung SyncMaster 204T LCD Monitor
> Gateway Mod. SK-9920 Keyboard/Logitech Optical Mouse
> Epson Perfection 1660 Photo Scanner
> Cheap Dell 720 Inkjet Printer
> 2 ea. LG Mod. GSA-H22N 18x DVD Burners
> Western WD800BB-22DKA0 80 Gig Hard Drive
> Maxtor STM3200820A 200 Gig Hard Drive
> Virtual Memory set to 3835 (total of both drives)
> Gateway 500S has unfortunate 160watt power supply.
> 2 sticks of 512 MB, PC 2100 memory, total of 1 Gig.
>
> Problem: When installed 2 months ago, both dvd drives worked perfectly. =
> After a month or so, the 1st. drive (D) began to act up. I copied a MP.=
> 3 dvd, and the burner took over 30 minutes to burn new copy, which normal=
> ly takes about 10 minutes for a full dvd. The second drive does not exhi=
> bit this problem. Further, when making a back-up copy of a dvd movie, th=
> e job with dvd shrink took me almost an hour and a half, normally a 25 mi=
> nute job. The burned copies however, are fully functional.
>
> I have tried switching the position of the 2 burners and changed the ribb=
> on cable. The problem did NOT move, when I swapped the burners. I also =
> expanded the virtual memory to near maximum, problem not helped at all. =
> That's the limit of my expertise, and I would greatly appreciate any and =
> all suggestions or explanations of my problem. Thanks.
>
> ------------------------------
>
> With a quick look at your computers hardware it would seem that your power
> supply is seriously underrated for what you have in it. You have two
> optical
> drives as well as two HDD's and I'm guessing three usb peripherals and
> possibly other add in cards (on-board video or video card?, modem?, sound
> card or on-board?). That is putting an enormous strain on the power
> supply.
> (You are quite certain it is 160 watts?)
>
> A quick check here http://www.extreme.outervision.com/PSUEngine would
> indicate at least a 325 watt supply. In addition, with 1 Gb of RAM, it
> really is unneccessary to have swap drives on both HDD's, nor does it need
> to be set that large. The drives will consume more energy than the RAM, so
> I
> would eliminate the swap file from the HDD that has the Windows
> installation
> on it and trim it back on the other drive to 386 Mb at max.
>
> Although you say the optical drives worked fine at first, I suspect 1 of 2
> things. Either the PSU has been over stressed and is now acting up, or a
> setting has changed adding additional programs/cpu cycles at startup
> (ctrl-alt-del to see a list of running tasks) tying up processing cycles.
> Also, the temp folder that stores the "shrunk" .vob files from your dvd's
> may be so large, Windows is having a hard time managing it.
>
> Just a couple of thoughts to get things started. YMMV
>
> Chris Ryan
>
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