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SpektrSat Dec-15-01 07:02 AM
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"16x won't burn at 16x!!!!!!!!"


  

          

I bought a shiny new burner, and it doesn't want to do what I tell it! It won't even give me the option! I've tried all of the methods of punishment, but it gives me only one option of burning at 8x, in both xp and 98se. This is not what I bought it for, I want to burn to the fullest of my ability. Thanks for the help!

  

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rhbowlerSat Dec-15-01 07:06 AM
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#1. "RE: 16x won't burn at 16x!!!!!!!!"
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Are the disks you bought 16x or higher?


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SpektrSat Dec-15-01 07:08 AM
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#2. "RE: 16x won't burn at 16x!!!!!!!!"
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yep, 1x-16x. Also, this both happens in Nero, and Roxio cd creator. The cd-rw you ask? oh, it's an LG 16x10x40x

  

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DarrenSat Dec-15-01 07:18 AM
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#3. "RE: 16x won't burn at 16x!!!!!!!!"
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Do you have the latest ASPI layer installed? Go HERE for a small tool to check and the files to install it. Also, I would set IMAPI CD-Burning COM to manual in your Services.

  

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ChickenmanSat Dec-15-01 08:16 AM
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#4. "RE: 16x won't burn at 16x!!!!!!!!"
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DMA enabled?

  

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JPSat Dec-15-01 08:30 AM
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#5. "RE: 16x won't burn at 16x!!!!!!!!"
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Try using a different brand of media. Just because the CDs are labled to work at 16x doesn't necessarily mean it will burn at that speed because of quality control issues or perhaps the design of the disk itself. A few single disks of different makes would be the way to go to test this.

Me, I'm perfectly happy with the old 8x burner. Shoot, I'm not running a CD manufacturing facilty, and it's reliable as can be.


JP

  

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pakoSat Dec-15-01 09:36 AM
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#6. "RE: 16x won't burn at 16x!!!!!!!!"
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Something to consider.
Problem could be the speed of your computer and HDD access.
The burner must have a constant stream of data while burning.

I was using a burner and software on a penII 233MHz and
4x burning was max.
I now have the same burner and software on a penIII 1GHz.
Burns everything now at 10x which is max speed of my burner.





  

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PCExpertSat Dec-15-01 09:51 AM
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#7. "RE: 16x won't burn at 16x!!!!!!!!"
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when burning, it work at 12x which is my burner's max speed ( using a P4 1.5ghz). but when burned at a P3 866mhz,it only burned at 8x.




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rhbowlerSat Dec-15-01 09:52 AM
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#8. "RE: 16x won't burn at 16x!!!!!!!!"
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Another problem i've seen when burning copys of disks is the read speed of the source drive. If it can't keep the buffer full then the writer will slow the burn process down till it can feed it enough.


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old dudeSat Dec-15-01 10:21 AM
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#9. "RE: 16x won't burn at 16x!!!!!!!!"
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You could make an image file to disk first. It'll transfer a little faster that way. I doubt you would ever get 16x out of anything. 8 to 12 is about it...... I often have to go down to 2 or 4x to get a good burn.....usually about 8x.

  

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NewNewbieSat Dec-15-01 10:57 AM
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#10. "RE: 16x won't burn at 16x!!!!!!!!"
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Not sure how and what you're burning, but IF you're burning audio "on the fly" (CD-ROM direct to burner) you may be limited by the DAE (digital audio extracton) speed of your CD-ROM.

For instance my CD-ROM reads at 52x but only does DAE at 8x. So that's my limit burning audio on the fly even though my burner does 16x. It will do 16x direct from the HD though.

On the following link is a listing of many CD drives and their actual DAE speeds. You can check your CD-ROM's DAE speed there. The DAE speed is under "results".

http://www.cdspeed2000.com/go.php3?link=daeresults.php3

NN

  

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