-> WC> How slow is too slow? My inquiry concerns my H.P. 433
-> WC> Celeron I intend to upgrade to a Ultra133 I/O card and
-> WC> drive. RAM speed limited to PCI 66 revision 1. 

-> Well if my present CDRW burner is having buffer 'under-runs'
-> even at 4x I'm assuming my hard drive is not capable of keeping
-> up with a DVD burner/buffer? 

 That is unusual if the Bruner is woerking properly. Even the slowest
HD should be able to keep up with a 4X burn. You must have to have some
other problem. Do you have the CDRW and the HD on the same IDE
controller?  Have you run the Nero CD test to see what speed you system
can support. Are you using any Hard Drive compression program? Do you
SHUT down ALL other applications, Including Networks, Fax Modems, "E"
MAil, Screen Savers, as amny TSR's as you can(there are only Three
required to run the Wnidows OS. Have you disabled any Power-Management
feature. I also understand that some very old  Hard Drives have a built
in "Interrupt Loop" that may casue a Buffer Underrun.
But for that $X drive the minimum system require,ments was a Pent 100 or
Above, 16 MB ram, and a Hard drive with a transfer rate of at least 
800 Kbs and a seek time of less then 20 Ms.


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