buffer underrun....

Ok it didn't used to do this but I'm burning onto a DVD+R with my plextor 8x dvdr drive. I am burning at 4x speed from hard drive to optical drive, both on different IDE cables.

The only major thing i did to my cpu was tune down the overclock a little because my room was a little too hot. So now when i scroll windows or basically do anything in windows, it skips a beat every second or so. kinda like the comp temporarily freezes for half a second, every second. Except the mp3's play fine

nothing runnin but nero, aim, firefox. It never used to happen. windows task manager says my CPU usage is steady at ~60%. where's the other 40%!?! the priority for nero is "high" (set by default). "system idle process" is always at 90-97 while nero is always at 0-4. hmmm

Sounds to me like it is in PIO mode. Check the Device Manager under the IDE channel to see what mode it is in.

uh.... great, it WAS set on PIO. I have no idea how the hell it got there....
wierd.

thanks bchur83!

Its a windows thing, any time it has an error windows defaults the the slowest setting for "safety"

ohhh, Saftey! i hardly ever see anything BUT pio mode, drives me nutz!
*dons bright orange vest, whistle, and blinky light*
Saftey first with windows!

For reference, here is a fix that you can do that changes the crap-out threshold to six consecutive errors rather than 6 total errors:

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=817472

ok... so i selected "ultra-dma if available" but it doesn't go back. It stays in PIO mode. what's goin on!?

do i have to reinstall the burner or somethin? better not..

That's exactly what you should do. Uninstall the IDE channel where you have your burner (I suppose you have it on the Secondary IDE channel - If you have it on the primary channel, don't uninstall it!).
Once uninstalled (the secondary IDE channel), just reboot your computer - your burner will be recognised, and will stay in UDMA mode.

START | RUN | REGEDIT

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEMS\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E96A-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}

0001 = Primary IDE Channel
0002 = Secondary IDE Channel

MasterDeviceTimingModeAllowed = DWord = ffffffff
SlaveDeviceTimingModeAllowed = DWord = ffffffff