dgoodship Posted December 14, 2004 Share Posted December 14, 2004 hi i have the following im my pc. Gigabyte 7N400E-L SKT A Nforce2 Ultra ATX 400FSB Sound LAN USB 2.0 Retail Box AMD Athlon XP3200+ 400mhz FSB 512 L2 Cache Barton CPU Corsair (VS1GB400C3) 1024MB, DDR400 / PC3200, non-ECC, 184 DIMM, unbuffered, CL3, 64Mx8 DRAMs, Lifetime Warranty Pioneer DVR-108 Double Layer Dual 16x DVD-R/RW Seagate ST3120026A 120GB 7200rpm 8mb Cache Barracuda 7200.7 Plus - OEM the problem im getting is that when i go to burn a ISO image file the computer freeses and i have to reboot. can anyone assist is it the memory or motherboard or is there a setting ive missed. in my bios i have the following FSB Frequency (set to 200MHZ) Memory Frequency ( set to SPD) this right or wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CandyKid Posted December 14, 2004 Share Posted December 14, 2004 Welcome to the forums, dgoodship! You might want to run Memtest86+ to rule out the memory, just to be sure. Then go from there! PLUR CK P.S. Yes, that's right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wired Posted December 14, 2004 Share Posted December 14, 2004 When burning non-ISO stuff, does it work fine? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted December 14, 2004 Corsair Employees Share Posted December 14, 2004 I personally have this same DVD-R drive and had some other issues that were solved with the latest firmware. You might check with Pioneer's support site for the latest firmware if the memory checks out! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dgoodship Posted December 15, 2004 Author Share Posted December 15, 2004 wellim also using a pioneer 105 which seams stable doesnt like burning images via Alcohol 120% though but it's ok via nero. the pioneer 108 is a big nono for nost burns it eats away the memory and crashes out the machine. i will test the memory and also update the pioneer 108 and c what happens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted December 15, 2004 Corsair Employees Share Posted December 15, 2004 Please let us know! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dgoodship Posted December 21, 2004 Author Share Posted December 21, 2004 hi doing more tests the pioneer 105 is starting to become unstabl;e when burning if theres a few programs open now. as it crashed at 100% (with luch the disk worked). so my pioneer 108 i cant really burn nothing on accept music cd's and the pioneer 105 will do dvd's but i need to close loads of programs down. can anyone assist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wired Posted December 21, 2004 Share Posted December 21, 2004 That's kinda NORMAL. Most CD burners have buffer underrun protection that varies between 2 and 16 MB, so you can burn and do other stuff, to a certain extent, although it is still entirely possible to put enough stress on a PC in terms of background applications that it can cause the burner to fail. That buffer size is fine for CDs, because of the ratio of the buffer to the size of a CD. Compare that same ratio to the buffer::DVD size, and there's a VAST difference. The buffer has less of an effect because of the DVD size, as well as the increased amount of data burned each minute in a DVD drive. Ultimately, CLOSE BACKGROUND APPLICATIONS when burning DVDs unless you need a couple of coasters :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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