Buffer underun
By Marty
@marty3888 (2355)
Acme, Michigan
December 15, 2009 7:15am CST
I was trying to burn a few songs onto a CD. It strarted burning trhe first song then I got "a buffer underun occured. try burning at a slower speed." I was burning at the lowest, 4x. I only had 40 minutes worth of music and I've burned more than that. Did that have to do with the CD or is that something else?
1 response
@cmdr001 (371)
• Portugal
15 Dec 09
Something else.
Chances are that probably had your CPU busy with something else, unless you have really that little RAM that even a little choke of the CPU will cause you to fail the burn. Additionally, there's always the chance that your burner could have a problem on its cache (Internal RAM if you didn't know) which while uncommon isn't impossible.
I'm guessing you did so before, so the problem shouldn't spring from there, but many people who use IDE drives tend to have the drive or hard disk from where they're copying the source information and the CD/DVD burner in the same IDE channel. This causes very slow operation which may also help for a buffer underun issue.
I suppose that the best bet is to see if you have any programs eating too much memory and/or CPU. Kill anti-virus and so. Try to make the burn also after a computer reboot.
