Guest chatts99 Posted September 1, 2007 Posted September 1, 2007 Hi I hope I am posting this in the correct forum as this is really a general question for which the answer may well be because "it is....". I am running XP home SP2 Celeron® 2.4 GHz 512 MB Ram and my burning software is Nero version7. I appreciate that burning DVD's does take a lot of the CPU but is there something I can do ; upgrade RAM,CPU, download specific software or use another burning software that will subatantially reduce CPU usage and allow me to do other things on my PC. Or is it a case of tough beacause it is because it is.... ? Cheers chatts99
Guest V Green Posted September 2, 2007 Posted September 2, 2007 Re: 100% CPU while burning DVD's Check to make sure that your burner is running in DMA mode, not PIO. Device Manager>>IDE/ATAPI controllers>> all Primary and Secondary IDE controllers should be set to "DMA if available". "chatts99" <chatts99@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:AF13AAE8-1A9C-492E-A0AC-6A98583F4A33@microsoft.com... > Hi > I hope I am posting this in the correct forum as this is really a general > question for which the answer may well be because "it is....". > I am running XP home SP2 Celeron® 2.4 GHz 512 MB Ram and my burning > software is Nero version7. I appreciate that burning DVD's does take a lot of > the CPU but is there something I can do ; upgrade RAM,CPU, download specific > software or use another burning software that will subatantially reduce CPU > usage and allow me to do other things on my PC. Or is it a case of tough > beacause it is because it is.... ? > Cheers > chatts99
Guest Allan Posted September 2, 2007 Posted September 2, 2007 Re: 100% CPU while burning DVD's "chatts99" <chatts99@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:AF13AAE8-1A9C-492E-A0AC-6A98583F4A33@microsoft.com... > Hi > I hope I am posting this in the correct forum as this is really a general > question for which the answer may well be because "it is....". > I am running XP home SP2 Celeron® 2.4 GHz 512 MB Ram and my burning > software is Nero version7. I appreciate that burning DVD's does take a lot > of > the CPU but is there something I can do ; upgrade RAM,CPU, download > specific > software or use another burning software that will subatantially reduce > CPU > usage and allow me to do other things on my PC. Or is it a case of tough > beacause it is because it is.... ? > Cheers > chatts99 When burning CDs or DVDs don't run other applications at the same time to avoid problems. I use NTI CD-Maker 7 and it also requires that you not run other applications at the same time while burning. You could turn off the Indexing Service while burning and then restart when finished.
Guest Plato Posted September 2, 2007 Posted September 2, 2007 Re: 100% CPU while burning DVD's > When burning CDs or DVDs don't run other applications at the same time to > avoid problems. I use NTI CD-Maker 7 and it also requires that you not run > other applications at the same time while burning. You could turn off the > Indexing Service while burning and then restart when finished. Agreed. My living depends on me burning universal CDs. Yes, I turn off all background apps before doing so, and also burn at the slowest speed available. -- http://www.bootdisk.com/
Guest Doug W. Posted September 2, 2007 Posted September 2, 2007 Re: 100% CPU while burning DVD's "Plato" <|@|.|> wrote in message news:46da4ffa$0$261$bb4e3ad8@newscene.com... >> When burning CDs or DVDs don't run other applications at the >> same time to >> avoid problems. I use NTI CD-Maker 7 and it also requires >> that you not run >> other applications at the same time while burning. You could >> turn off the >> Indexing Service while burning and then restart when >> finished. > > Agreed. My living depends on me burning universal CDs. Yes, I > turn off > all background apps before doing so, and also burn at the > slowest speed > available. > > http://www.bootdisk.com/ > I have turned off Indexing Service permanently. - Doug - >
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