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Hello Tom - 

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? 

TW> That is unusual if the Bruner is woerking properly. 

Agreed - which is why I'm thinking that the burner is dying. 

TW> Even the slowest HD should be able to keep up with a 4X
TW> burn. You must have to have some other problem. Do you have
TW> the CDRW and the HD on the same IDE controller? 

Nope both CD drives are on one IDE controller while the hard
drive and an IOMEGA 100mb zipdrive are on the other controller. 

TW> Have you run the Nero CD test to see what speed you system
TW> can support. 

Nope. I had that program but forgot to use it. 

TW> Are you using any Hard Drive compression program? 

Nope - none. 

TW> Do you SHUT down ALL other applications, Including
TW> Networks, Fax Modems, "E" MAil, Screen Savers, as amny
TW> TSR's as you can(there are only Three required to run the
TW> Wnidows OS. 

After two coasters I removed everthing and tried again. Made
another coaster after that. :-\ 

TW> Have you disabled any Power-Management feature. 

I don't use any power management features. 

TW> I also understand that some very old Hard Drives have a
TW> built in "Interrupt Loop" that may casue a Buffer Underrun.
TW> But for that $X drive the minimum system require,ments was
TW> a Pent 100 or Above, 16 MB ram, and a Hard drive with a
TW> transfer rate of at least 800 Kbs and a seek time of less
TW> then 20 Ms. 

Embarassing that my system is doing this to me but it is. :-\ 

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