Hi, Bob
Appreciate the quick reply and cogent thoughts. Glad to know that
it's not the burner.
So, you think it's an overheating problem?
I have 1GB of RAM and I happily burned DVDs for quite a while.
Recently, I started doing some fancier stuff with Alcohol 120%,
WaveLab 5, DiscWelder Chrome, and SurCode. Basically, what I am doing
is "producing" DVD-Audio discs for my car's player, since only few
DVD-A recordings of my favorite artists exist. I figure, since I
already own the CDs and they had the poor judgment of going with the
competition (SACD), I can rationalize it without much guilt. ;-) I
much rather listen to 6-channel surround sound than 2 channels.
I wonder whether it's possible that one or more of these softwares
(which are all "labor-intensive") are part of or the whole problem.
I have been thinking about installing fans in front of the
hard-drives and opening the case and blowing over the opened system.
After I put together the system I ran it for a month without the box
cover. Unfortunately, the noise became quite annoying after a while.
Maybe I can find some type of sound-absorbing barrier between the box
and where I sit.
Thanks for the help, Bob.
Regards,
Andrew
At 12/29/2006 06:06 PM, you wrote:
>Hi Andrew,
>I run a similar system to yours but with WinXP. I have had two NEC
>drives in it, a 2500 and a 3500 series. I think they are top notch.
>Maybe I missed it, but I didn't see how much RAM memory your system
>has. I'm just thinking it may affect large jobs. I only have 512MB in
>that computer and burn DVD's & CD's with ease. To troubleshoot and
>eliminate the heat issue, you could temporarily open the case and aim
>a large room fan in there. If it still shut down, that would probably
>eliminate the heat issue. If you're concerned about peripherals
>overloading your system, disconnect them and see if that helps. Good luck.
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>>From: "Andrew J. Rozsa" <[log in to unmask]>
>>Sent: Dec 29, 2006 3:10 PM
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>>I am running the following system:
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>>OS: Windows 2000 Professional Service Pack 4 (build 2195)
>[....]
>>Whenever I try to burn a DVD (ISO, mp3 collection, etc) lately the
>>computer shuts down about half way through the job. It has also done
>>that several times when I was converting large video or audio files
>>to some other format.
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