Burning freezes computer

[lost-and-found]

Hi, Whenever I launch any burning program, such as Nero Burning ROM, Ez CD Creator, Clone CD, etc. my computer will freeze about 90% of the time, at random times during the program too. I can get by without freezing in Nero by having my CD-RW open until the very last end before pushing the BURN button. However in software like Clone CD I cannot get by with anything, it just freezes in the beginning at all times. When I DO burn, no errors, no coasters; just perfect burning. I've upgraded all the burning programs such as NERO (Which came with my cd-rw btw) to the latest versions, I even upgraded my firmware on my drive.

Here's what I know for sure is not wrong: RAM is good, I've treid different chips, different slots, still the same. It keeps on happening even after multiple Low-level formats, OS re-installs etc. In Linux burning (or however much of it I was able to configure) works awsome.

Hardware:

Lite-On 16x10x40 LTR-10162C burner
Asus A7A 266 with ALi Magik chipset, 384 MB PC133 RAM, 1.2GHz T-birdie. A CD-ROM drive set as slave, CD-RW as master on the secondary IDE. DMA enabled on Hard drive, and CD drives. (with DMA disabled system is very slow during burning).

Software:

Any burning program
Windows 98se

[soulja]

usually if u have a burner and a slow processor it will freeze up cause its using alot of amount of cpu usage for burning, and i have a 52x24x52 burner on a 1.3GHZ and its fine when burning

[lost-and-found]

it doesn't freeze while burning, it freezes while using the programs, like choosing which files to burn, settings for burning, anything, just not during burning.

[Atomic Rooster]

Make sure there are no other programs running in the background such as DC projects, file sharing proggies, etc.

[lost-and-found]

nothing's running in the background except the usual: PC CIllin, AIM, ZA, MBM.

[pickel]

With all those burning softwares installed , sounds like there's a conflict brewing in the background....maybe ???? Nero 5 seems to work ok for me.

[Atomic Rooster]

Kill ALL background proggies before burning, including those you listed.

I also remember hearing a while back that Nero and EZ CD Creator don't play nice together on the same comp. I'm not sure if that's an issue with the newer versions of those programs.

[lost-and-found]

hmmm, I will try to kill all of the proggies then, I don't have more than one proggie installed at one time, so I don't think that there are any software proggies, might it be some driver issue in win98?....I guess we might never find an answer to this...

[Atomic Rooster]

Dang forgot all about this one. Do you have a proper ASPI layer installed? If not try downloading ForceASPI from here: http://aspi.radified.com/

[lost-and-found]

Thank you greatly AR, I'm rebooting the system now after installing the Force ASPI thing...