CDR & KG7RAID- 100%CPU -Plz Help

[an]

In the past year I have had a Yamaha and now a new Plextor CDRW. First problem I had was occasionally in Windows (XP Sp1) the system would start acting erratic and slow. When I would re-boot the CDRW drive would disapear from the boot up screen and beyond. Usually if I turned off the computer and then on the Bios would see the drive and everything would be fine. With the Yamaha I would burn discs at 44x with the CPU level at a normal level. I replaced the Yamaha with a Plextor recently that burns at 52x. After a while of experiencing the problem listed above I removed a CD-ROM drive that was set as slave to the CDRW which was master. As of yet I have not experienced the disapearing CDRW.

Now I have a more troublsome problem. When I burn discs my CPU level skyrockets to 100% for the entite period. I use Nero 5.5.10, but have had this problem using Alcohol 120% v.1.4.2. Now this is rather recent and I have not changed my system to any degree. At most I might have installed a game or two, other than that no new upgrades or anything. Prior to the Yanaha I used a CDRW that did use a high level of CPU. My brother has the same board and has never experienced this problem.

 

[jjacobs]

is dma on or off? my 121032a plex did the same thing fixed it by pitting a jumper in the two pins on the back of the unit ,they are marked officeical use only. with the jumper i get udma33 and with out i get ipo4. I have been running this on my kg7-r for over a year.

"an" wrote:

In the past year I have had a Yamaha and now a new Plextor CDRW. First problem I had was occasionally in Windows (XP Sp1) the system would start acting erratic and slow. When I would re-boot the CDRW drive would disapear from the boot up screen and beyond. Usually if I turned off the computer and then on the Bios would see the drive and everything would be fine. With

the

Yamaha I would burn discs at 44x with the CPU level at a normal level. I replaced the Yamaha with a Plextor recently that burns at 52x. After a while of experiencing the problem listed above I removed a CD-ROM drive that was set as slave to the CDRW which was master. As of yet I have not experienced the disapearing CDRW.

Now I have a more troublsome problem. When I burn discs my CPU level skyrockets to 100% for the entite period. I use Nero 5.5.10, but have had this problem using Alcohol 120% v.1.4.2. Now this is rather recent and I have not changed my system to any degree. At most I might have installed a game or two, other than that no new upgrades or anything. Prior to the Yanaha I used a CDRW that did use a high level of CPU. My brother has the same board and has never experienced this problem.

 

[an]

Windows is set to use PIO, would that set it for the drive? "jjacobs" wrote:

is dma on or off? my 121032a plex did the same thing fixed it by pitting a jumper in the two pins on the back of the unit ,they are marked officeical use only. with the jumper i get udma33 and with out i get ipo4. I have been running this on my kg7-r for over a year.

"an" wrote:

In the past year I have had a Yamaha and now a new Plextor CDRW. First problem I had was occasionally in Windows (XP Sp1) the system would start acting erratic and slow. When I would re-boot the CDRW drive would disapear from the boot up screen and beyond. Usually if I turned off the computer and then on the Bios would see the drive and everything would be fine. With the Yamaha I would burn discs at 44x with the CPU level at a normal level. I replaced the Yamaha with a Plextor recently that burns at 52x. After a while of experiencing the problem listed above I removed a CD-ROM drive that was set as slave to the CDRW which was master. As of yet I have not experienced the disapearing CDRW.

Now I have a more troublsome problem. When I burn discs my CPU level skyrockets to 100% for the entite period. I use Nero 5.5.10, but have had this problem using Alcohol 120% v.1.4.2. Now this is rather recent and I have not changed my system to any degree. At most I might have installed a game or two, other than that no new upgrades or anything. Prior to the Yanaha I used a CDRW that did use a high level of CPU. My brother has the same board and has never experienced this problem.

 

[Reda Baydoun]

Hello,

If windows is set to use PIO, set it to use "DMA If available" for your drive... I will use DMA transfers and liberate the load from your CPU..

- Red

"an" wrote:

Windows is set to use PIO, would that set it for the drive? "jjacobs" wrote:

is dma on or off? my 121032a plex did the same thing fixed it by pitting a jumper in the two pins on the back of the unit ,they are marked officeical use only. with the jumper i get udma33 and with out i get ipo4. I have been running this on my kg7-r for over a year.

"an" wrote:

In the past year I have had a Yamaha and now a new Plextor CDRW. First problem I had was occasionally in Windows (XP Sp1) the system would start acting erratic and slow. When I would re-boot the CDRW drive would disapear
from the boot up screen and beyond. Usually if I turned off the computer and
then on the Bios would see the drive and everything would be fine. With the
Yamaha I would burn discs at 44x with the CPU level at a normal level. I replaced the Yamaha with a Plextor recently that burns at 52x. After a while
of experiencing the problem listed above I removed a CD-ROM drive that was set as slave to the CDRW which was master. As of yet I have not experienced
the disapearing CDRW.

Now I have a more troublsome problem. When I burn discs my CPU level skyrockets to 100% for the entite period. I use Nero 5.5.10, but have had this problem using Alcohol 120% v.1.4.2. Now this is rather recent and I have not changed my system to any degree. At most I might have installed a
game or two, other than that no new upgrades or anything. Prior to the Yanaha I used a CDRW that did use a high level of CPU. My brother has the same board and has never experienced this problem.