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    Web browsing and DVD Burning concurrently

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by titaniummd, Apr 7, 2005.

  1. titaniummd

    titaniummd Notebook Deity

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    I am not having luck browsing and DVD burning at the same time. I am running the external DVD burner from a USB 2 port. However, the web browser locks up and the buffer for burning starts dropping. This is the only problem in multitasking that I have come across. Ripping, encoding, and watching DVDs while surfing/multitasking is not problem.

    Other than burning with the desktop and surfing on the laptop separately, does anyone have suggestions?

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  2. ZaZ

    ZaZ Super Model Super Moderator

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    Sometimes those USB chipsets can be flaky. I would try updating usb drivers. Also try turning off any unnecessary background app/serivces. Good Luck.






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  3. mikeakajb

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    Have you actually thought about not browsing when trying to burn something? I mean look the files are being transferred via usb to the drive. Ontop of that web browsers don't run on exactly small amounts of memory.

    You might want to bump your pagefile up, get more ram, defrag, don't browse web pages with alot of flash, videos, images, java, and what ever else.

    Pretty much turn off all your virus protections firewalls/external programs like mcafee or nortons. Turn off standby and hibernation/turn screen saver to use blank screen instead of a 3d one.

    Or like I said before pop a blank dvd into your drive, start burning and just come back in 15 minutes.

    I mean your external has to be faster then my notebook internal which burns a full dvd -r at 4x in 15 minutes.

    I can currently rip a full dvd, encode another dvd, open 4 web browsers and run defrag with 1 gig ram and no real slow down. The program that seems to slow down the most are the ie browsers.

    But heck they are memory hogs.

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    mikeakajb, Apr 18, 2005
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  4. yassarian

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    Do you have a PM or a P4 HT? PM isn't that great at multitasking -- its single-threaded design made it that way. You shouldn't have that kind of problem with a P4 HT -- I routinely do that, and have several other processes running at the same time, on my P4 HT 3.0ghz desktop. If you have a P4 HT and is experiencing it -- check the drivers and add more memory.

    cheers,

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    yassarian, Apr 21, 2005
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