-=PCTechTalk=- Re: " Recording to a DVD "

If you normally turn off your computer when you are not using it, try 
setting your screen saver to a very long delay start time (or turn it off) 
and turn off all power management options or set them to very long delay 
start times also, and then you won't need to bother with them every time you 
burn a DVD.

Screensavers were invented when monitors had a problem with image burn-in. 
Unless you have a very old monitor, you don't need one except for aesthetic 
purposes.

If you turn off your computer when it is not in use, you gain very little by 
having power management options turned on.  Setting them for a long start 
delay will allow most burns before turning anything down or off.

I'm just trying to figure out why these thing interrupt a burn since you can 
turn your monitor manually and suffer no ill effects and the power 
management only comes into play after a period of non-use and everything in 
use during a burn will be in use and not get turned off (except the 
monitor).

I think the problem may be sloppy code in the software.  Microsoft's Defrag 
and is affected by the screen saver but third party utilities frequently are 
not.  Try third party burning software instead of Lite-on's and see if that 
makes a difference.

Don

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "LiL OL Me" <mytoybox1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "pc tech talk" <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 1:04 AM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- " Recording to a DVD "


> Hi ... I own and have been using a Plextor DVD Recorder/Player for 
> sometime now ... hooked up to my back up IBM PC .
> No problem`s and no special instruction`s were included in the User set up 
> instruction`s .
>
> Yep ... I read them .
>
> Soooo ... I bought a LiteOn DVD Recoder/player for my main Dell PC .
>
> In it`s instruction`s it say`s that when I am burning a DVD to turn off my 
> Screen Saver and Power Saver function`s so there are no interruption`s in 
> the recording process .
>
> It does make sense but I am not sure how to turn off these two function`s 
> so I can restart them once the recording is done .
>
> I have learned that when I start a DVD burn that ... I start the record 
> process and then I walk away ... I do not touch anything, including my 
> mouse .
>
> Anybody hear of turning off these two function`s to record a DVD ?
>
> Thank`s,
>
> Teri Lee

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