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[nila]

When I'm burning a CD with MC it's REALLY causing my whole system to lagg like crazy.

If I burn the same CD with Nero my system is barely effected and I can continue working normally??

Any suggestions or ideas?

Thanks

Nila

[JimH]

We had someone report today that another problem was solved by removing Nero.  It's a post on "[something] freezes".

Nero runs a little program in the background that doesn't play nice.

[nila]

Hiya  Jim,
No such gremlins on my system ('Startup Control Panel' <- Made by a God!!)
I go out my way to control exactly what starts up with my system etc and I dont have that on it.

Also, my problem is specific to burning - I found his thread and it seems more general.

Also - should have posted this before:
System info:

Media Center Registered 9.1.311 -- C:\Program Files\Media Center\

Microsoft Windows XP 5.1 Service Pack 1 (Build 2600)
AMD Athlon 1667 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 1048 MB, Free - 272 MB

Internet Explorer: 6.0.2800.1106 / ComCtl32.dll: 5.82 (xpsp1.020828-1920) / Shlwapi.dll: 6.00.2800.1226 / Shell32.dll: 6.00.2800.1233 (xpsp2.030604-1804) / wnaspi32.dll: N/A
Ripping /   Drive I:   Copy mode:Normal   CD Type:Auto   Read speed:Max
  Drive K:   Copy mode:Normal   CD Type:Auto   Read speed:Max
  Digital playback: Yes /  Use YADB: Yes /  Get cover art: No /  Calc replay gain: Yes /  Copy volume: 32767
  Eject after ripping: Yes /  Play sound after ripping: Yes  Soundfile:   chord.wav

Burning /  Drive I: LITE-ON  LTR-52246S         Addr: 1:1:0  Speed:52  MaxSpeed:52  BurnProof:Yes
  Drive K: _NEC     DVD_RW ND-1300A    Addr: 1:0:0  Speed:2  MaxSpeed:16  BurnProof:Yes
  Test mode: No /  Eject after writing: Yes /  Direct decoding: Yes /  Write CD-Text: Yes
  Use playback settings: No /  Normalization: None




And one last little request to do with burning - right now it just says:  I Drive J Drive
This really doesn't help me too much telling me which drive is which (I have a Liteon 52x24x52 and a NEC 103a DVDRW

It'd be GREat if it'd say at least just:  CDRW I / DVDRW J
or Liteon I/NEC J
or something to give me a clue which drive is which.

At all pos. or not?

I'm off home - starving - Download my plugin and tell me what you think! lol. G'night and good luck!

[phelt]

Is the burner in PIO or DMA mode? Is there another device on the same IDE chain?

[zevele10]

Jim

Ok ,Nero don't play nice with MC.

In this case can you tell us about a burning program who will play ok?

The main raison i had hard time with 9,1 beta is because i upgraded to get the new burning features.
And ,you can be sure , that i will burn only with MC.

But ,if i need ,like now , to make a back-up copy of some cd-room ,or copy some cds 'on the fly' , this is something i cannot do with MC.

So ,beside MC ,which other burning program can we use?

[pbreet]

Nero does install something like "nero_check" to automatically start at boot time.  I disabled it over a year ago, simply because I didn't know what it was for...

Nero still works fine....

[phelt]

pbreet is right - nero installs 'nero check' or a similarly named startup app which has no apparent purpose other than to cause system instability, app conflicts, etc. I've had no problems after disabling it, plus it saves a small bit of memory and is one less thing to slow down startup time