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Skriven 2004-12-01 20:06:40 av Roy J. Tellason (1:270/615.0)
     Kommentar till text 65 av CHARLES ANGELICH (1:123/140)
Ärende: dying burner?
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CHARLES ANGELICH wrote in a message to ROY J. TELLASON:

RJT>> It may be the hard drive, or it might be some other
RJT>> aspect of the system. 

CA> I get the feeling the entire system has slowed a bit. I've
CA> scanned for virus with AVG and AVAST, scanned for spyware with
CA> SpyBot and AdAware (all recent versions and updated online), plus
CA> I've scanned the registry with multiple apps to removed leftover
CA> debris plus compressed the registry with NTREGOPT.
CA> Still seems a bit slower than it was this time last year?

Or it may be that what software you've installed is a bit more bulky than what
you were using before?

CA> I may be just imagining the 'slowness' since I was moving from one
CA> machine to another and one was at 2.8 gHz and mine is at 450 mHz so
CA> ...

All of that is faster than all of what I'm using here,  though I do have a
450MHz board that's waiting on an ATX case -- got a few of those boards but
only plenty of AT cases around.  This is like the transition from VLB to PCI, I
have lots of VLB boards around too,  but not much to plug them into any more.

And I see people talking about getting stuff with no ISA slots at all,  stuff
with no "standard" serial or parallel ports,  and so forth.  I don't like that
outlook on things...

CA>> I had 3 files of 640+meg to burn to CD and had to convert them to 
CA>> ISO files then defrag the hard drive (4 times) before I could get 
CA>> a successful CD burned. That this helped at all tells me the hard 
CA>> drive is too slow or the burner is wearing out. The burner has 
CA>> never been perfect and has made it's share of coasters but now 
CA>> it's every other use the copy fails. 

RJT> Although I have a burner here I haven't yet done too much with it, 
RJT> so I'm still reading this stuff with interest. It's installed in a 
RJT> linux workstation box, and I used it as a regular CD reader to do 
RJT> the install -- and got a few errors during that process. I'm 
RJT> hoping that it's not going to be a problem for me when I do try 
RJT> and get around to using it... 

RJT> So many project, never enough time! 

CA> I have the time but some serious reluctance to dig too deep and
CA> find myself with a 'career move' rather than an evenings
CA> 'project'. ;-) 

Heh.

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