Clams
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Please take this post an put it under the thread you think it'll do the most good.
Aside from all the other errors you gan get when burning a DVD, another one really worth mentioning is "the induced power brownout factor". If the computer that is burning a DVD is on the same circuit (sometime even the same house) as a large electic motor, the initial dead short of starting that motor can cause just enough of a brownout to cause an "anomaly" in the disk being burned.
I won't speculate if the speed of the disk motor flutters with the voltage bump, or if the intensity of the laser momentarily dims. But what I *do* know is that I have to shut-off my cental air / heat pump when burning a DVD to keep things absolutely kosher. I only discovered this by keeping a log of strange DVD anomalies vs electrical incidents. I also know that the low "voltage incident" is not enough to cause the computer to re-boot - and I don't know if a UPS will react fast enough to smooth out the bump. But I'm sure from deliberate and methodical testing that I can intruduce a DVD stutter by starting my cental air in the middle of a burn. So if you have a fridge, AC, furnace, water pump, or any other large electric motor or compressor that runs on your house AC - try to do your best to isolate it from the computer that's doing the burning. Your CPU has additional power conditioning and regulation supplied by the motherboard, your drives run straight off the PC power supply. Food for thought.
-W
Aside from all the other errors you gan get when burning a DVD, another one really worth mentioning is "the induced power brownout factor". If the computer that is burning a DVD is on the same circuit (sometime even the same house) as a large electic motor, the initial dead short of starting that motor can cause just enough of a brownout to cause an "anomaly" in the disk being burned.
I won't speculate if the speed of the disk motor flutters with the voltage bump, or if the intensity of the laser momentarily dims. But what I *do* know is that I have to shut-off my cental air / heat pump when burning a DVD to keep things absolutely kosher. I only discovered this by keeping a log of strange DVD anomalies vs electrical incidents. I also know that the low "voltage incident" is not enough to cause the computer to re-boot - and I don't know if a UPS will react fast enough to smooth out the bump. But I'm sure from deliberate and methodical testing that I can intruduce a DVD stutter by starting my cental air in the middle of a burn. So if you have a fridge, AC, furnace, water pump, or any other large electric motor or compressor that runs on your house AC - try to do your best to isolate it from the computer that's doing the burning. Your CPU has additional power conditioning and regulation supplied by the motherboard, your drives run straight off the PC power supply. Food for thought.
-W
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