Hi Pamela--

Here's one thing I noticed with the Nero software and my Sony CDRW
drive. Be sure it's set to use DMA via Control Panel settings.
Sometimes having DMA turned on slows the computer, but it seems to be
vital with the Nero package. I have not researched this deeply, but
has been my experience.

To check the DMA setting, go to Start>Settings>Control Panel>System.
Click on the Device Manager tab and view the Properties for the
burner. Click on the Settings tab and be sure there is a checkmark
next to DMA in the Options section.

Only other thing to mention is have you verified your system meets the
minimum requirements for your burner? One of the burners I saw
recently advertised required at least a Pentium 233.

Hope this helps,
Dave Gibson

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Pamela Leming wrote on Aug 2, 20000:Subject:

I'm having a problem burning CDs.  I have a Packard Bell Intel Pentium
MMX 200 MHz system with 96 MB RAM.  I have one 4 GB HD partitioned
into two 2GB partitions.  Each partition has about 600 MB free space.
I have a 40x CDROM and a Creative CD-RW RW6424E CD writer as a slave
to the 40x drive.  I use Nero Burning CD software, recently upgraded
to version 5.

I've read through the archives here and have tried all the advice I
could find.
I've closed down all running programs, turned off screen saver, made
sure no
power-saving features of hard drive and monitor were running, turned
off virus scanning program, etc.  However, I'm still having problems.
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