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System first: Iwill KK266,512 Cas2 Crucial,Athlon AXIA Y@1.4, Audigy Player, iWill SCSI Controller 40mb/s, Atlas 10k 18gb, Atlas 7.2k 8bg, ......an up til recently TEAC 56S CR-R at 6speed
Win98SE and Nero 5.5
This was most beautifull........until I got GREEDY and upgraded my CD-R!!!

Got me a deal on CRD-BP4 Sanyo 16x/10x/40x

Seemed nice to start.......

but when copying an entire music CD it puts weird noises in the tracks, normally the latter tracks, near the end. It may be coincidence but the first 6 are always OK.

I have used: 3 different brands of CD-R.....used read speeds dow as low as 6x......write speeds down as low as 2x..........tried activating AND deactivating Sync Data transfer in Device Properties......

I used Windows Explorer to open a written Cd and played tracks individually. They have the noises "built into them"
They are not in between tracks. Sometime they are data style crackles and hisses...othertimes total silence.

If I use the same CD original three times I get three diff results, all crap though :-(

I have sold the old TEAC but putit back in once more and did 10 CD's straight with no hassle.

I have since swapped the BP4 with the vendor (a friend and a nice bloke) for another and EXACTLY the same thing happens

This is a reasonable good CDR that Sanyo makes for lots of companies, mine is an OEM one, showing as GENERIC.

But both are as bad aseach other.......

I hope someonecan help me.!!!! please *sob*.......*piteous whine*

Thanks for reading people!

That sure sux. Only thing I can think of besides it being the writer is the cable, try a different one if you have it. And maybe try it on a channel all by itself or different than you already have it.

If that doesn't help hopefully someone will have a good solution for you.

I had a similar problem in the early days of CD-R. Burner would add scratching and crackling noises to the higher number tracks unless I burned at the slowest speed.

Turned out to be a controller issue. The controller I was using was not a busmaster controller (it was a cheapie interface made for SCSI zip drives) and a busmaster controller is required.

Try a different controller if possible. You may also need newer drivers for it. It's also possible there's another busmaster device on the PCI bus that hogging the bus (some sound cards and ATA100 controllers can do that).

Contact the drive manufacturer and see if there's any other known problems.

Hope this helps...

OK Penguin......shall try as you suggest.

First Drivers and BIOS for SCSI controller. Then maybe firmaware for the CD Burner.

Its such a shame cos I went SCSI for reliability and so far have been SO PLEASED it made my smile hurt! ;-)

However, this has peeved me loads! I want a nice burner, end of story. Maybe its the Controller. I dont know what Chipset is in it, so that may be it.

Bugger!

Oh wel, bit more money to throw at my favourite beige box......maybe. Have to wait for my Game Cube now! CD Burning is essential!

Laterz, and thanks to you both for input. I dont have a diff cable but its OK with the other CD (*sob* sadly sold) machine.