Thanks once again Kevin. I am saving all your suggestions to a file for later exploring.
David On Sun, 11 Jul 2004, Kevin Lloyd wrote: > Hi David. > > It seems Ahead have changed their support pages and the closest you'll get > to the help tool as was is at http://www.ahead.de/en/632181889268729.html#9 > That said, it seems they're happy to take log files attached to e-mails to > the support desk so that may be the best course of action for persistent > problems when burning. > > The DMA setting is not a Nero specific setting. If you go to control panel, > then system, then device manager, you should be able to locate your rewriter > in the list of devices. When selected, tab to the properties button and > press enter. The enable DMA setting can be found on one of the resulting > tabs. As mentioned in a previous post, Windows will warn you if you change > this as some hardware devices, particularly older ones, will not work if DMA > is enabled. > > As regards the jitter and ignore read errors controls, these can be found on > the Nero read options tab but you can only get to this if you dismiss the > wizard and go through the resulting detailed screens. > > Kevin > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "David R. Sky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Saturday, July 10, 2004 10:43 PM > Subject: Re: Nero 5.5 CD-burning problem > > > > Hi Kevin > > > > I tried in vain to find the help tool you reffered to in a previous post, > so > > was unable to change I think you called it dma. I've been using Window > Eyes > > 4.5 demo, and have been exploring the screen lots with the numeric keypad > as > > well as regular keystrokes. *chuckle* I have no idea (yet) what you're > > talking about below, I haven't seen any of these things. I guess I'm gonna > > have to get my neighbor to help me with Nero again. > > > > Thanks very much for your pointers, I will post to this list when I have a > > progress report to make. > > > > David > > > > > > On Sat, 10 Jul 2004, Kevin Lloyd wrote: > > > > > Hi David. > > > > > > I've also experienced problems like this occasionally. You may wish to > set > > > the "use jitter correction" control to "Yes" when you copy a CD. This > may > > > help as often when copying from one CD drive to another, minor clocking > > > differences between the two drives can introduce jitter. > > > > > > Also, check that you've got the "ignore read errors" set to "No" when > you > > > burn as the CD will burn with errors such as you describe otherwise. > > > > > > Kevin > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "David R. Sky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Sent: Saturday, July 10, 2004 12:19 AM > > > Subject: Re: Nero 5.5 CD-burning problem > > > > > > > > > > Hi Kevin > > > > > > > > I have not examined the help tool yet, didn't know that could help. I > have > > > > been playing around with nero for just the past week or two. As I > posted > > > > earlier, I could burn a CD with eleven fine tracks, but the twelvth > went > > > > crazy when I played it on my CD player. Kinda comical. > > > > > > > > Thanks for the tip! > > > > > > > > David > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, Kevin Lloyd wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi David. > > > > > > > > > > I suffered with this problem for a number of months. Have you tried > > > working > > > > > your way through the Nero help tool? I found this very useful as it > > > will > > > > > run through a checklist of areas that may affect successful burning. > > > > > > > > > > Anyway, the answer for me was to set my CD-rewriter to be DMA > enabled. > > > This > > > > > meant that data could be transferred between the rewriter and hard > drive > > > > > much more efficiently. I've never had a buffer underrun since. > > > > > > > > > > Have you ever been able to burn CD's successfully with your current > set > > > up? > > > > > > > > > > Kevin > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > > > From: "David R. Sky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 8:09 AM > > > > > Subject: Re: Nero 5.5 CD-burning problem > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi Mimi > > > > > > > > > > > > No, it was not the CD's... I've got very old equipment cuz I can't > > > afford > > > > > > anything else right now. Apparently it was something called > "underr > > > un" or > > > > > > "underburn" or something, which meant the buffer to the CD write > > > thingy > > > > > got > > > > > > empty before more info was grabbed from the hard drive. I don't > know > > > how > > > > > > else to explain it at the moment, it's new to me. Anyway, my > friend > > > burned > > > > > > the CD's with his own computer and the same kind of CD discs, so > they > > > were > > > > > > okay. > > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks > > > > > > > > > > > > David > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, mimi wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > Oh, no! That means your disc devloped an error in it. If you > are > > > using > > > > > > > CDR's, which you can only use once, there is nothing you can do > to > > > fix > > > > > that > > > > > > > once it's burned. If the problem persists throughout the pack > of > > > discs, > > > > > you > > > > > > > have a bad package! You might have to try a different brand of > > > discs. > > > > > > > Anyway, Nero should have asked you if you wanted to save the > > > read/write > > > > > > > error onto a disc. Anyway, I would say no, because I don't want > a > > > > > defective > > > > > > > write or play. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I don't know what else to suggest other than try other discs to > see > > > if > > > > > the > > > > > > > same thing would happen. But I do know that any time your burn > is > > > > > > > unsuccessful or incomplete it's a bad disc. You cannot see the > > > defect. > > > > > > > Another way to know is when you play it back on your computer's > CD > > > drive > > > > > if > > > > > > > the last track will not play at all. I've had that happen a lot > > > lately. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Mimi > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > > > > > From: "David R. Sky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > > Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 11:31 AM > > > > > > > Subject: Nero 5.5 CD-burning problem > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi listers > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > With sighted help, I learned how to use Nero 5.5 to burn mp3 > files > > > to > > > > > a > > > > > > > CD. I split thirty five tracks into three folders and tried to > make > > > > > three > > > > > > > CD's from these. At 4x speed, only 4 tracks were burned. Then, > > > running > > > > > my CD > > > > > > > burner at 1x speed, the first eleven tracks are burned (and > played) > > > > > great, > > > > > > > but each time the twelvth and last track is played, it's okay > for a > > > few > > > > > > > seconds, then it gets comically crazy, like a space-age > > > merry-go-round. > > > > > And > > > > > > > the CD player stays stuck on that track until I physically stop > it > > > or > > > > > switch > > > > > > > to another CD in my player. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > There was an error message from nero at the end of each burn > > > session, > > > > > and > > > > > > > I saved the burn log from the last session. It's 8 pages long > and I > > > have > > > > > no > > > > > > > idea what it means. I can forward a copy to the list if it would > > > help in > > > > > > > solving this problem. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I'd appreciate any help, thanks in advance! > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > David > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > > > > PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > > > > > > > > http://www.pc-audio.org > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > > > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > > > PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > > > > > > > http://www.pc-audio.org > > > > > > > > > > > > > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > > PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > > > > > > http://www.pc-audio.org > > > > > > > > > > > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > > > > > http://www.pc-audio.org > > > > > > > > > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > > > > http://www.pc-audio.org > > > > > > > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > > > http://www.pc-audio.org > > > > > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > > http://www.pc-audio.org > > > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > _______________________________________________ > PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > http://www.pc-audio.org > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- _______________________________________________ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
