Neo2-PFS Platinum Edition and LiteON CD-RW Problems

Hi,
I have a Neo2-PFS motherboard and I can't get my LiteON CD-RW to work.
When the computer is not overclocked it takes about 5-6 minutes to burn a CD at
48x and the read buffer jumps from like 20%-100% constantly. When I overclock my computer I can't burn at all, I get bad disks. I'm using Nero 6 Ultra Edition. I have tried Fireburner but no luck. The burner worked fine on my Abit BE-7 mobo
even when my computer was overclocked. Could it be a problem with a burner? When it was working fine it took less than 3 min to burn a CD at 48x.
Thanks for any help,
Mario

Well one of the "Side-Effects" of Overclocking the FSB, is Possible HDD Errors, Loss of Data, All around Instability, And Dead PC , OK, Bad Joke, But True, so I dont see Having Underrun's, or Buffer Problems, when Burning a CD/DVD, While your System is Overclocked as anything Abnormal ...When Running Just about all the Componants "Out Of Spec", You Should expect some Negative outcomes, Especially when It Comes to Copying or Reproducing Data...Now for the Reason it is Not Burning Correctly while at Default FSB Speeds, is another Story Completely, Have you Trie another Utility Besides "Nero 6"?...Do you have the Latest "Lite-On" Firmware, from their Site?..........Sean REILLY875

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10x with 133 : cpu/15
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Motherboard - MSI Neo2 K8N Platinum (nForce3 250GB Ultra) - Using Bios version 1.8
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HDD - Western Digital 1200JB 7200rpm IDE
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*EDIT* Added additional methods attempted... (there was a lot... so I did not remember everything that I have tried)

Quote from: dacull on 25-May-05, 16:06:33
Does it only happen in online games, or can it happen in all games? One thing to make sure of is to turn off CRC checksum offload in your NVidia MAC properties (everyone do this, it is incorrectly calculating checksums which leads to servers ignoring your packets). However as you have tried a different network card you can discount this theory.
For me it looks like the biggest culrpit is your 6800NU, i have read alot of bad things about the NU and you have a low bios revision there, just because it worked well against your old chipset doesnt mean it will work well against your current chipset. Sounds like a BIOS fix is needed as some timing is out somewhere.
Ensure Spread Spectrum is off (and as you have already pointed out Fast writes, ATI NV Speedup) and your card is running at default clock.
As a test beg/borrow/steal another graphics card (preferably nvidia) and see how it goes so you can narrow in on your video card.
It is not just one game, but it is more prodominate in certain games than others... the game in question here is Planetside... though I stuck a demo of Unreal Tournament 2004 on a loop bot match and it seemed to have locked up after 4 hours (not sure how many times it experienced that 5-10 freeze as I went to bed). As for the video card it was KNOWN working from a previous build in those same games (Previous build was a AMDXP3000 and a Abit NF7-S nForce2 motherboard). The only components different in this build is the AMD64, the MSI Neo2 K8N, 2 new sticks of Corsair XMS to replace the Corsair ValueSelects, and the SB Audigy2 as I would never use a software codec audio solution. Spread Spectrum is LOCKED in BIOS and disabled... ATI/nVidia speed up was disabled from the start... and I tried the Video Card at default clock, over clocked, as well as under clocked and the same issue resulted... as I said before it is NOT the video card.
There are two other things I could try is use my old Geforce4ti 4200 and see what happens... or even try out WindowsXP 64-bit edition as someone earlier suggested. I wish I could find a new BIOS for my XFX 6800NU, but there there is only the revision 1 BIOS that I was able to find. The mystery continues...
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