rds_correia Posted January 2, 2008 Posted January 2, 2008 Hi guys, I read the pink box, did all that but unfortunately didn't come up with a solution. I've never payed too much attention to the DVDInfo files that Imgburn can generate. Last night I noticed that some days ago I have enabled generating *.ibg files after burning. So I was taking a look at them when I got very upset with the blue Write CPU% line reaching so close to 100% for 4 times during encoding. Am I right or am I reading this graph all wrong? Actually I'd say that line is averaging a very high value, right? I have checked and both my IDE interfaces have DMA enabled. Unfortunately yesterday I also erased the logfile so I can't give more info at this time. I will be more careful next time when I burn another disc to see if the cpu spikes are still there so that I can post a pic and a log file. But in the meantime I'd like to hear your comments . Cheers PS: Could it be the Anti-virus eating up CPU at that moment in time? I use AOL's McAfee Special Edition and I can't find a "pause" button anywhere on it so that I can stop the on access scanner during burning process.
spinningwheel Posted January 2, 2008 Posted January 2, 2008 rds; I find that I generally run btw. 20-90% usage without incident. I would suggest, however, that you do a Google for a program called 'EndItAll 2' and install it. I use it to stop/kill everything but the basic processes necessary to run the machine before I do any form of burning. I don't believe that surfing the web, doing a report or playing a game is more important than making the absolute best burn that I can of whatever data I may be burning at the time.
cornholio7 Posted January 2, 2008 Posted January 2, 2008 although the spikes may worry you, cpu spiking doesnt seem to have a bad effect on the burn, i forgot to turn seti off on this burn and it uses around 100% cpu most of the time and the scan of the burn was just fine, take a look here http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?s=&...ost&p=59493
rds_correia Posted January 2, 2008 Author Posted January 2, 2008 (edited) Excellent piece of advise. Thanks spinningwheel although the spikes may worry you, cpu spiking doesnt seem to have a bad effect on the burn, i forgot to turn seti off on this burn and it uses around 100% cpu most of the time and the scan of the burn was just fine, take a look here http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?s=&...ost&p=59493 Interesting finding cornholio7... I wish my drive LG could output PIPO like your's so that we could compare. There ain't anything similar to DVDInfo for HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4120B A117 (ATA) drives, right? Cheers Edited January 2, 2008 by rds_correia
LOCOENG Posted January 2, 2008 Posted January 2, 2008 There ain't anything similar to DVDInfo for HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4120B A117 (ATA) drives, right? ...as in a scanning utility? There is always CD/DVD Speed.
cornholio7 Posted January 2, 2008 Posted January 2, 2008 no , its pretty much benq and lite on drives for scanning i think (although there may be others) sorry loco , wasn't saying no to your post, you posted whilst i was typing
LOCOENG Posted January 2, 2008 Posted January 2, 2008 No problem corny, I think we covered all the bases anyway as the question seemed a little tricky. LOL As far as drives go, if you have SATA connections, the Samsung 203B is a strong contender as well.
rds_correia Posted January 3, 2008 Author Posted January 3, 2008 Thanks guys, you really did cover all bases here. Cheers
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