Slow desktop while burning a CD?

[consumertalks]

Dell 2350 P4 2.2 w/XP
60GB HD (Seagate 7200 from Dell)
1GB PC2100 (Kingston)
40X CDR-W (Samsung)
Software: Roxio


I thought P4 and XP were designed for multitasking! If I'm burning a CD, that's pretty much all I can do. If I'm online, the page takes a bit longer to load, and the scroll function is choppy. If I'm working on a word processing document, the text takes a few seconds to appear, so if I make a mistake the backspace takes forever (even Mavis Beacon couldn't teach me 100% ).

Is this just something I have to live with while burning a CD?

[thronka]

Make sure you have UDMA enabled in your seconday and primary ide controllers in your hardward manager in winxp.

[wju425]

When you are burning a cd the cpu, hard drive, and the burner are busy making that cd. Running other programs interupts them. To make it worse you already have programs running in the backgroud (look at your systray). Be glad you have burn proof technology on your burner so you won't end up with a coaster.

\o/ Billy

[consumertalks]

Originally posted by thronka
Make sure you have UDMA enabled in your seconday and primary ide controllers in your hardward manager in winxp.

How do I do that?

[consumertalks]

^^still confused about that!

Back up top!

http://www.ati.com/support/faq/winxp...enabledma.html


try that

[consumertalks]

That looked promising, but the settings were already there.

[Scott Tiger]

Originally posted by consumertalks


How do I do that?

Right Click on My Computer -> Select Manage

Click on Device Manager in the left pane - notice that device listing shows up in the right pane

(this part gets kinda vague since I'm working with an NT box right now)

Click on the + sign next to IDE controllers (Might be called something else)

Select Primary IDE controller then hit properties. Within one of these tabs you can enable DMA (or UDMA - not sure what XP will call it)

If you see SCSI controller but no IDE controllers write back. It's likely that Dell is using SCSI emulation and you won't be able to make adjustments to DMA anyway.

HTH's
ST

[thegladiatorgy]

I've got a slowish PC. I don't even risk doing anything else while burning!

[consumertalks]

Scott Tiger, that's what GroundZero3 suggested, it's already set up like that.