Computer freezes whenever CD is inserted

[glock20rocks]

This has just really been bugging me. Everytime I insert a CD, for the 3-4 seconds it takes the drive to recognize the CD the explorer windows are basically frozen; not just My Computer, either. All of 'em. I can understand My Computer; what I don't get is why everything else has to freeze too.
Any running applications that dont access the HD/CD are OK; if the apps are doing any HD activity, they're frozen too.

The CD drive is a Lite-On 48125W. I've got the latest ASPI layer, drivers, IAA, firmware and BIOS for everything.

Any help would be greatly appreciatied...

EDIT:
This only happens when I insert a CD into the Lite On drive; not on the DVD drive.

[cfitz]

Does this help any?

http://www.cdrlabs.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=4507

cfitz

[cfitz]

Hmmm. According to this, you had the same problem with your old TDK burner as well:

http://www.cdrlabs.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=3638

So it must be a general problem, and not specific to your LiteOn burner.

cfitz

[glock20rocks]

Forgot about that old TDK drive doing that!! I thought that was just that POS ECS board causing; guess it is a general problem. Don't have autorun enabled (hate it!).

I wished the search worked for me...so much info here..

Thanks! Just wish there was a way to fix it..

[cfitz]

I wished the search worked for me...so much info here..

It doesn't work properly for me either. But I have found that using just a few search terms, appending an asterisk (*) to the end of each term, and never selecting the "search for all terms" option does help a little. For example, you might find this thread with the search:

48125W* frozen*

Thanks! Just wish there was a way to fix it..

You are welcome. As for a fix... this might be one of those things we just have to learn to live with.

cfitz

[glock20rocks]

You are welcome. As for a fix... this might be one of those things we just have to learn to live with.

cfitz

Maybe it's just the excuse I need to ditch the Lite-On burner and pickup a Plextor 48x24x48!

Burn quality on that should be alot better than the Lite On...or at least less picky about the discs. STILL haven't burned a disc at 48x w/o errors

[cfitz]

Well, if you want to convince yourself the Plextor will fix the multi-second pause issue....

I actually don't think the Plextor will behave any differently in that regard, but you are right, it should give you good quality burns.

cfitz

[imtim83]

glock20rocks what are your computer specs ?

[glock20rocks]

Mobo: Abit BD7-Raid (i845)
CPU: Pentium 4 1.7GHz
RAM: 512MG DDR266
IDE Channel 1: LiteOn 48125W, Creative DVD 6x
IDE Channel 0: (2x) WD 40GB 7200RPMS
Maxtor/Promise Ultra100 card: (4x) 60GB 7200RPM Maxtors
Sound: Hercules Game Theater XP
Video: MSI GeForce 2 TI
Lan: Allied Telesyn AT-2400
TI 1394 Controller

imtim83, any input would be appreciated. But as cfitz said, I did have the same problem with a different mobo/burner. Hmm...maybe it's the DVD drive causing it. I'll unplug it and see what happens...

And although I do like the LiteOn, the burn quality is annoying. Only a couple of CD-R's I've tried work good at 40x, and NONE at 48x. So a switch to the Plextor is 100% about burn quality...

[imtim83]

glock20rocks what windows os are you running and how long has it been installed without a reformat,etc? Is DMA enabled? Yep try unplugging your Creative DVD 6x just to see what happens.

[glock20rocks]

Opps
Windows 2000 SP3, DMA is enabled. I'll try unplugging the DVD and see what happens...

As for reformatting, whats about once a month max. Fastest defrag around

[imtim83]

glock20rocks ok. Sometimes i reformat more than that. I know by now i know the windows installation by heart because i have reformated and reinstalled windows at least 1000 something times.

What cd-rw burning software do you use and do you use windows media player 8.0 or did you keep windows media player 6.4 i think it is that comes with windows 2000 ? By the way good choose on a OS! Windows 2000 is the best ms os in history! Its not a ram hog like windows xp, faster, etc)

[glock20rocks]

Yup! Win2K rocks! For burning software I use Nero 5.5.9.17, and use Media Player 6.4, the one that comes with Win2K. Don't like the 7.2 version. Always fun to rip out the junk that installs with Windows everytime you reinstall. Gotta get a copy of Drive Image...

[imtim83]

glock20rocks let me know what happens after you unplug the dvd drive please.

Thanks.

[dodecahedron]

about the freezing:
apart from the 2 threads cfitz linked, there was another one discussing this issue (can't find it b/c of the dysfunctional search). it was a longer thread than those 2 with more people posting.
this freezing issue seems to be quite erratic, occuring on many drives, motherboards, OSs etc.

and by the way, it happens for me on my 40x plex, so i can't see why it won't happen on a 48x plex either.

[glock20rocks]

Still happens w/o the DVD drive

As for my statement about switching to the Plextor: The Lite-On does ok, but media compatiblity sucks to be quite frank. Zero disks so far at 48x w/o errors

It was more of a joke, but I will probably will switch. I'd like the 24x RW, and since Ian said it burned every type of disc w/o errors.. - I'll have to look into that more, though.

I care far more about quality than burn speed, but speed is nice. The whole "hold the eject button for 3 seconds to read at 48x" is gonna be a pain in the you-know-what. Maybe I'll keep the Lite-On just for reading CD's...wait, that'd be four optical drives. No way...too many...well...

[imtim83]

glock20rocks well i had a problem that would not go away with my Geforce 4 ti 4400 video card and athlon xp 1800+.

First i could not get windows to install without freezing up so i finally figured out i had to change some bios settings to fix it. Then next some games would freeze up every 1 to 10 mins every single time. Finally from trying everything possible for 30 days i fixed it. My point is if we keep trying we can fix it. There is no problem i have not been motivated to fix. Nothing is impossible.