Ahead's Nero Burning ROM is absolutely the best. Hand's down. No question. I bought a new drive just to avoid my external USB Predator burner that doesn't run reliably with my old 350 MHz system, even at 1X burn rate. I had to disconnect from the internet, close all apps etc. So when I got the new 16X drive, it wasn't compatible with Roxio. So I got Nero. It worked perfectly. This wouldn't be a very interesting story except that the Ahead software also runs the old USB burner at full speed (only 4x) with the internet connected, mail delivery and any other apps running. They simply did a very good job of the buffering and background overhead management. This is why it works so well with the high forground overhead of Protel 99SE.
regards, Tim Hutcheson Research Associate Institute for Human and Machine Cognition University of West Florida 40 S. Alcaniz St. Pensacola, FL 32501 USA 805-202-4461 -----Original Message----- From: Brian Guralnick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 11:21 AM To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: Re: [PEDA] Protel vs. DirectCD Yes, this was mentioned in one of my earlier posts, though, it was met with a healthy dose of skepticism. I did recommend for everyone to un-install anything Roxio related and completely switch over to Ahead's Nero CD writer software & drivers for the best system stability. You could imagine some of the replies that post got, your motherboard, something else Win2K related, get the latest Roxio drivers... I just don't think Roxio is worth the effort. ____________ Brian Guralnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice (514) 624-4003 Fax (514) 624-3631 ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Protel EDA Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 11:33 AM Subject: [PEDA] Protel vs. DirectCD > I've just encountered a problem which essentially crashes my machine (W2K > P99SE SP6) when I try to run Protel while Roxio's Easy CD Creator v 5.01_E2 > is running. I think it's just a shell for DirectCD; it came bundled with my > Dell, but is actually just crippleware (lowering my opinion of Dell; they > promised a CDRW with supporting software, but this comes with ads to buy the > full software). > > Has anyone else seen this? Is there anything specific I can do to alow > continuing to at least view schematics in Protel while writing a CD of > unrelated files? > > Steve Hendrix > > ************************************************************************ > * Tracking #: 7B0CD65563C74148BADB5AA58B9D02736C31EF31 > * > ************************************************************************ * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To leave this list visit: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/leave.html * * Contact the list manager: * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Forum Guidelines Rules: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/forumrules.html * * Browse or Search previous postings: * http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
