CDrom help please. Roxio is down. Sorry

david-ruby wrote on 1/26/2003, 10:05 PM
Anyone have any experience with this cdrom prob?
I have been using easy cd creator 4 for months now.Just the other day I started getting cds that had gaps in between the songs that actually cut off the tails of sustaining endings etc.
I reinstalled and the same thing but now I get complete stops with buffer underuns. I defraged and there is no other things running in the background. This is a win 2000 machine.
I am at aloss here. I know not probably the place for this but I figured the guys/gals here are pros all around.
Any ideas or help well listened to. ; )
David

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craftech wrote on 1/27/2003, 7:54 AM
Adaptec programs generally have major conflicts with other software particularly Nero and any Prassi software such as Primo and Record Now Max. There are others as well.
Did you install anything since the last time the program worked well?

John
david-ruby wrote on 1/27/2003, 8:30 AM
Ya know I did but can only think of Vegas Beta and DVD beta at this point. Hmmmm....
mikkie wrote on 1/27/2003, 9:16 AM
Hi David,

If you haven't gotten a solution by now, here's some suggestions that might help.

Buffer under run errors are usually a thing with the drive itself rather then the software. Haven't heard of your prior problem with the gaps, though hopefully they're related.

Things to check as a starting point would be to make sure that if your drive has burnproof or similar, that it's turned on in EZCD Creator. Check to make sure win2k recognizes your drive has ultra DMA & that this is turned on.

If you have problems getting UDMA turned on for the drive, double check the system bios. In win2k you can also try removing the drive & reinstalling it.

Is your drive is one of those that reads DVDs also (CDRW/DVD ROM? DVD Software on this machine was effected by the beta install. Could check any related software there, and/or see if DVD reading turns off UDMA in win2k.

Roxio had some update patches to EZCD Creator - did you reinstall those after the EZCD install? Another thing to try is the ASPI software you can get from Adaptec.com; read the readme file section about ASPI file versions.

Finally, might want to try other software. Nero (ahead.de) has a few utilities to measure drive performance, which might tell you if things are OK with the drive. They also have a demo of Nero, though I'm unsure if it has full capabilities. There are also a few free CD burning programs you could try (seem to remember something called Fireburner?). If you're in North America, you can sometimes find the NTI standard burning software for the price of shipping.

mike