Swish
01-04-2004, 03:39 PM
I think all three of you responded or at least are aware of the problems I am having with my TDK Velocd burner recenty. Following Davey's advice to burn at a slower speed is working for me. I started at 4X and worked my way up to 12X and that's as far as I can go with out having the thing freeze up on me. I have to manually shut down the PC as the program won't quit no matter what I do.
Anyway, what I just discovered is that the burner is skipping on play back, so that's probably why it's having trouble burning at the higher speed. Perhaps a good cleaning with compressed air will make a difference. I rarely listen to cds on my PC these days so it was just a coincidence that I played one today while fooling around in my office. It happened to be a cd that I had just copied, so I immediately realized that the problem was probably a dirty lens in the burner. I put that same cd in my regular player to make sure, and it played flawlessly.
I don't know if the cleaning will fix things, but it's worth a shot. Otherwise, this thing is going in the garbage after less than one year. Good thing it was cheap! I think it was less than $50 after rebates.
Anyhoot, I figured you might find that interesting and perhaps it will solve a problem for someone in the future.
Swishster.
Anyway, what I just discovered is that the burner is skipping on play back, so that's probably why it's having trouble burning at the higher speed. Perhaps a good cleaning with compressed air will make a difference. I rarely listen to cds on my PC these days so it was just a coincidence that I played one today while fooling around in my office. It happened to be a cd that I had just copied, so I immediately realized that the problem was probably a dirty lens in the burner. I put that same cd in my regular player to make sure, and it played flawlessly.
I don't know if the cleaning will fix things, but it's worth a shot. Otherwise, this thing is going in the garbage after less than one year. Good thing it was cheap! I think it was less than $50 after rebates.
Anyhoot, I figured you might find that interesting and perhaps it will solve a problem for someone in the future.
Swishster.