well ok here's another computer problem for you guys. i went out and got a dvd burner a while ago to back up a lot of mp3s, about 8gb's, before i format my hard drive. the only problem is that my computer keeps freezing all the time, hence why i want to format it. most of the time it'll write about three songs then go to a blue screen of death and goodbye to one blank dvdr. yesterday after extensive cleaning and defraging i actually got my dvd burner to write almost a full disc, but right near the end of course my computer froze up. the burner is a tdk external going into a usb2.0 pci board. a lot of the time after i get a blue screen it'll half return to my desktop but there will be short green slashes all the way across the top of the monitor and everything will be frozen. (they look like this llllllllllllll ;-) ) i've ran spybot and got rid of all that sort of crap and sometimes there's weird files in my internet explorer downloaded objects that i get rid of, other than shockwave etc. any clue at all. i would just do a straight up format now but i don't wanna lose like 2500 songs. its a gateway rig; athlon 1100mhz, 384mb with a tnt2, all my drivers are up to date, i dunno really. its driving me crazy freezing all the time on me :smt067
Use CD-RWs or CD-Rs. If your comp can almost write a wholle DVD-R disc, it should be able to handle a CD-R/CD-RW. It's much more cumbersome, but try to burn a CD and see if it works. Make it a data CD--that way you can get on many more songs, as they just act as 4 mb etc. files on a 700 mb cd, as opposed to 4 minutes of music on an 80 minute CD. :smt023
Or, if you have a spare hard disk, or a friend with a spare hard disk, Whallop that in and copy your music over, then format and copy the music back
nevermind, takes me a few sometimes i guess. a spare hd would've been great but the only one i got laying around is a 1.2 gig :smt043 . it wasn't burning dvds and crashing using this drag to disc program from roxio so i got it to work using another utility outta their software sweet
That sounds like a hardware problem. I used to get it all the time a few years ago, back when I was using Win98 and was overclocking my Celeron 366 (which I only replaced last summer... with a PIII 933! :smt023), and I had a god-awful graphics card (ATI Rage Pro POS). I'm on Win2k and I've changed a lot of hardware since then, and get no prob's like that any more. What version of Windows are you using?
Never ever use drag and drop crap like InCD or whatever. ESPECIALLY with DVDs! Always use a good program, like Nero. USB burners are a bit sucky. Make sure you don't have anything else on your USB buss. As you said it is PCI, make sure you don't have anything that may conflict - try pulling any sound cards, modems, network cards etc. that you don't need for now. Which version of Windows are you using? (assuming you use Windows!). Another alternative to the hard drive problem is to create a new partition, copy to that, then format C. If you don't have partitioning software, then you could just create a new folder and deltree the rest (assuming you use a FAT system not NTFS).
using smelly millenium edition windows here. i reflashed my bios to the latest version for my mobo a while ago and my tnt2 has the latest drivers i think. the thing is if i want to play an older game like rainbow six it'll be really dark?? but other older games like quake2 is fine, then quake1 is dark to. this monitor is a bit old and makes stuff darker but the games are completely unplayable. i dont think i'd be able to make a big enough partition. the mp3 files are almost 9gb and i only have about 4 of my whole 20gb left open. looks like i need a whole new rig but not right now, im saving up to move.
