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Since my Asus A7N266-VM motherboard, unable to burn CDs!!!

RJARRRPCGP

The Rocking PC Wiz
This is the first time I own an Athlon motherboard that don't have a Via
IO chipset. Ever since I installed my CenDyne Lightning III 40x12x48x
CD-RW drive in my Asus A7N266-VM motherboard, CD burning processes
have *always* failed!!! BTW, the CD burn failures are *not* buffer underrun errors and no buffer underrun errors have ever occurred with my CD-RW drive. The CD burning processes with Nero *always* fail with a seek error and sometimes accompanied by a strange whirring sound, like the CD-RW drive is confused. :ranting:

I *never* had this problem with my old motherboard, with has a Via KT133 IO chipset. Was usually able to successfully burn CDs with my
Chaintech CT-7AJA2E motherboard, which only support 100 mhz FSB Athlon processors, thus only support Athlon T-bird processor cores.

What is the problem? :ranting:

BTW, my power supply voltages are *not* out of tolerance.

Lex at Emutalk.net has only a 300W power supply and has never complained about any major problems.

I wonder if the nForce IO chipset sucks? :angry:
 
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Trotterwatch

Active member
I've been reading up on this, try turning off UDMA (in Windows + Bios) for the CDRW and see if that rectifies the problem. Seems like the problem is only present when it isn't in multi-word DMA mode.
 
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RJARRRPCGP

RJARRRPCGP

The Rocking PC Wiz
Would turning off UDMA probably fix it with my nForce 1 motherboard?

Turning off UDMA for my primary master is a major no-no, thus only
will turn off UDMA for my secondary master.
 

Trotterwatch

Active member
Only turn it off for the CDRW drive, of course leave your HDs on the best DMA you can get.

If it doesn't fix the prob, then you can always turn it back.
 

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