I disagree with "ultra".  I believe your PC is fast enough for this.  I used
to burn CD-R's on a old 486 IBM PC with only 16Meg of Ram.  The suggestion
to burn these at 1x is the first idea that will help.  Before starting your
CD burning session, I always reboot the computer.  And also be sure ALL
background programs are not running.  The easiest way to do this is to do a
"CRTL-ALT-DEL" once.  This brings up a "Close Program" box.  You should
close as many as these as you can.  The only that you must have open is
"explorer".  Good Luck!!

Regards,
Fred Hahnel


-----Original Message-----
From: Ultra [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2000 5:12 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Burning CD's


You could try reducing record speed when write CDs. a Pentium 200 is really
not fast enough for fast CD burning. I have to reduce to 4x, 2x or even 1x
on P3-667 machine if I want to burn a good CD everytime. I have had few bad
CDs when I write in 8x or 6x speed, I doubt IDE drive's ability on high
speed burning.
Anyway, Nero is a great software, stick with it and don't ever think of
Adaptec (unless troubleshooting is a great fun for you. sorry for Adaptec
fun, I have had too many bad experience with Adaptec).


Jun Qian

----- Original Message -----
From: "Pamela Leming" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2000 8:43 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Burning CD's


> 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.

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