** Burning Audio CD **

[Bill Lane]

What Brand?

[MaxRat]

Any... I prefer...verbatim, sony, hp....but for a test any brand other than what you have will work....

stay away from cheap brands....I have had the worst luck with Teon and memorex...and some maxell

[glc]

My Lite-On DVD burner is very happy with Verbatim 16X DVD+R's and TDK 48X CDR's.

[MaxRat]

glc....

do you see anything I may have missed in helping Bill...? This thread seams to be not getting very far... as he still has the problem albeit different but still a problem....

[Bill Lane]

Hi glc & MaxRat:

I bought Verbatim CD-R 1X-52X 80 MIN / 700 MB/Mo, looking at what glc uses, did I get the wrong media?

This time after burning, and ejecting the disk, when I closed the drawer it opened WMP and started playing. And that worked in both the DVD & the DVDRW players.

Also in Explorer the tracks now show when the disk is in either drive.

But, I still have a problem :-(, the first 11 tracks played great, 12 through 19 was jerky, blank spots or didn't play at all.

I could switch between the good tracks without a problem, but if I switched to a bad track it would lock up most of the time.

Well, what's our net move? Sure hate to reinstall, but if that's what it's going to take, I'll get on it.

One thing that still has me puzzled, in Explorer when there is no disk in the DVD drive, and I click that drive, it tells me "Please insert a disk into drive K:.", but when there is no disk in the DVDRW, and I click that drive, nothing, no message at all, but at least it don't hang with the hourglass anymore.

[Bill Lane]

Hi Again glc & MaxRat:

I don't know if this could be part of my problem, or all of it, but this has happened to me a few times. When it happened tonight I copied the page, What happens is I'm on the internet, and when I go to change to another page, my computer reboots, then I get the Microsoft Send Error Report, I sent it and here's the info I received, it's at this link ...

http://home.earthlink.net/~billlane2...line-crash.jpg

I tried to download the test file/program, but couldn't get it to work, and couldn't figure out how to use it.

Anyway, it looks like it's telling me that I have a memory problem.

It might not happen again for a month or two.

[needhelp]

Install and burn with Nero, you should have no problems.

[Bill Lane]

Hi needhelp:

I did, and had the same problem.

[needhelp]

I have been reading through the posts here and see you have a back up computer, I know this is a bit of a hassle but have you tried the new burner in this computer.

[glc]

You need to test your ram.

http://www.memtest.org/download/1.65....65.floppy.zip

There is a readme file in the zip that tells you how to make the boot floppy.

[MaxRat]

I agree with the testing....You run it from dos...let it run for as long as possible...I'd say 8 hours....

but a minimum of 4hrs

[Bill Lane]

Hi glc & MaxRat:

Boy!!, why couldn't Microsoft offer this Memtest86 test simplified like this. It was a piece of cake getting it set up and running.

For the 8 hour run, you won't hear from me till after 6 PM PST this evening.

Thanks guys,

[MaxRat]

what do you mean "simplified"..?

to set up XP you just boot from the cd and it's easy as pie....
For memtest..you have to download it...unzip it...load it to a bootable floppy or create a bootable ISO cd...whew thats work....

For future reference...download the ultimate boot cd...and make one for your pc tool kit.... it has memtest on it with various other tools you may need...gl..

[Bill Lane]

Hi glc and MaxRat:

Here's the results of the test, looks good to me ...

http://home.earthlink.net/~billlane271/mem-test.jpg

MaxRat, I didn't have to creat a bootable ISO CD, it was simple :-)

Anyway, what do you think our next step should be?

[glc]

This thread is getting huge - if this was asked before, please excuse me. What speed are you burning these audio CD's at? Try slowing them down.

[Bill Lane]

Hi glc:

I had set it to 1x, but I just checked it and it's back to fastest, I guess I should have checked it each time I burned a disk. I didn't think it would change back.

[Bill Lane]

Hi Again:

I just burned a new disk and it's perfect!, I think that I may have forgot to recheck the speed after installing the new DVDRW.

I set it to burn at 1x, turned everything that was running off.

My settings in this computer don't always stay where I set them, I have an issue on that with write pad.

Anyway, I want to thank everyone that guided me though this, and I'm sure happy that I didn't have to reinstall to get it to work.

Thanks again!!!