I have a cd-rw that i was going to install for a friend and it says it requires a 233mhz processor. Is there anyway i can make it think the processor is bigger than a 150mhz without overclocking it? the comp has 48mb ram running win98. Sorry if this doesn't belong here but I need to know fast and this area gets looked at the most. Please don't move it. thanks.

There is no need for a faster CPU if you are NOT going to use the burner at higher speeds (8x, 16x). Do a test. If the burner has Burn-Proof or something like that, there will be no problem. Why you need faster CPU? When you burn with 16x, you need 2.4 MB/s of data. Just do a test.

well the cd-rw is a 8x4x32, but easy cd creator says there ain't any supported cd-rw drives. thats what made me think that the processor was too slow because it is a 150mhz or less and it says it requires a 233mhz.

Try Nero.

Usually if EZCD Creator says no supported drives you have to upgrade the software, and EZCD is different than everything else, you install the program then you do the update and then you reboot, do not install then reboot and then update and reboot again,

well nero didn't work or i'm too stupid to use it. All i could do in it was make an iso image to the desktop, couldn't copy from one cd to another.

Well my experience has been that it is always better to copy to hard drive then to desk top - less of a margin for errors.

I have run a cdrw on a cyrix150, and it worked just fine.

clone cd has always worked best for me :rolleyes:

I really don't think that you will be able to copy from one cd to another because of the speed issue. To be able to copy, "on the fly" your going to need a faster processer, AND Hard drive/IDE Controller, and another faster cdrom.
You should however, be able to record an image to the desktop and then burn this to cd with your setup.
It takes quite a bit of proceser to record on the fly and you stand a better chance of having a bad recording doing it this way.
I used a 2X SCSI burner with a SCSI 40X cdrom on a 300 P2 a few years ago and I had trouble burning on the fly with this setup and SCSI has way LESS cpu usage than ide.
you will get ALOT better copies if you make a file to disk first at 4X or less and burn to disk at 4X or less.
I know people will say they record at 500X and no trouble BUT for a GOOD QUALITY recording, 4X or less,period
Faster record speed equals==MORE ERRORS, even if the cd seems ok, it will have more errors at faster record speeds

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hope this helps
SeeYa
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