PROBLEMS WITH PHILIPS CDRW800 Series

Computer Hardware
#1

PLZ HELP MY PHILIPS CDRW800 keeps making coasters. I keep getting a error that says Write error - buffer underrun occurred. My CD burner runs at 8x4x32 and i tried at speed x1 and THis still happens. I tried many programs and different CDR’s.

IBM CLONE
350mhz
WIN 98 SE
64MB RAM
Pentium 2
5.99 GB
Primary Master-Fuju HardDrive
Primary slave- PHILIPS CDRW800
Secondary maste-none
Secondary IDE salve-ATAPI 50x CDROM
AWARD BIOS 1999
Sound Card- ESS ALLEGRO
GRAPHICS CARD- NviDia Vindia 16MB
MOnitor-17 GATEWAY CRystal Scan

#2

Where is the CDRW located in the case? Does it have good airflow. I have a TDK with burnproof that gave buffer runs when located in the top bay.
You can also try making the CDRW master on Secondary IDE and CDROM Primary Slave.

I would also add at least 64MB of RAM.

AMD XP 1700+, MSI K7T266 Pro2 (Via 266A chipset)
256 MB Samsung PC2100 CAS2.5 Asus 7100 Geforce 2 MX
Soundblaster Live X-Gamer, Lite-On 16x DVD
Acer 8x4x32x CDRW, IBM GXP 40GB 7200rpm
Linksys LNE100Tx NIC, Antec 300W Power Supply
MS IntelliMouse Mouse USB, MS IntelliType Pro USB
Windows XP, Linksys BEFSR41 Router

3 other networked: PIII 550E @ 733, Duron 800 @ 900, PII 450

#3

Defenitely put your writer on the 2nd master.

#4

The cdrom is on top bay and the CDRW is right under it.
Also i have changed the CDRW to secondary master and cdrom to secondary slave.

I haven’t tried burning anything yet

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#5

Update the firmware to version 2.5
www.consumer.philips.com/global/b2c/ce/catalog/assets/downloads/pcrw1208b_eu_fus.exe

#6

THe Burner is working better with firmwire update. The buffer runs from a 100% to 85%. Do you know any good Burning programs?

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#7

Use clone-cd :cool: