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Cd-r help

Bomberman · 2003-01-11 19:21:10

I recently bought a 16 speed riter but I wont rite at 16 takes about 15 min to rite full cd, I have updated drivers, I have tried nero and a few others Its a philips 48-12-16 rw I have a gateway p2 400 256ram win98 Any 1 any ideas?

11-01-2003 7:21pm

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Bomberman

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I recently bought a 16 speed riter but I wont rite at 16 takes about 15 min to rite full cd, I have updated drivers, I have tried nero and a few others

Its a philips 48-12-16 rw

I have a gateway
p2 400
256ram
win98

Any 1 any ideas?

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#2 11-01-2003 7:32pm

sceptre

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Are you using media certified for use at speeds higher than 4x?

If you're not and the media won't take it, Nero will drop the speed.

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#3 11-01-2003 7:51pm

Bomberman

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Yea all cds i use are higher then 16x, its says its ritin at 16 but with the time it takes its obviously not.

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#4 11-01-2003 8:09pm

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Does it say it's writing at 16x in all programs ? Maybe it is

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#5 11-01-2003 8:14pm

Bomberman

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yea it says it in all programs, but still it should not take 10 mins 2 rite 200mb

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#6 11-01-2003 8:18pm

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A full CD is between 650-700MB, not 200MB.

10mins wouldn't be strange, I don't think.

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#7 12-01-2003 2:10pm

Bomberman

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it takes bout 18 min to rite a full cd and 10 to rite 200mb and i thought it should rite faster then that?

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#8 12-01-2003 2:16pm

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With my old 4x writer, it took 20mins to write a full 650meg cd

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