Good morning. I have had some unusual problems with Disc Burner in the past, and have opted to use Toast instead. This is fine, but Disk Burner is far quicker to use when trying to back things up in a hurry. I would like to use Disc Burner, but I am worried about the problems it caused me in the past, and was wondering if anyone could give me a few suggestions.
Specs: I am running OS9.2 (at the time of the problems it was 9.1) on a G4 466 with 384MB Ram. Problems: When I installed Disc Burner nothing seemed to work properly. My machine kept crashing for no apparent reason, I had all sorts of memory problems- I no longer had enough memory to run any of my applications, no matter how many times I reallocated memory, I didn't have enough space on my hard drive to save anything, no matter how small, when I had 25Gig spare. I didn't even have enough RAM to run the Apple Help Centre. Basically I couldn't use my computer. In attempting to fix the problem I did a clean reinstall of my OS, which didn't help, so I erased everything and reinstalled my OS once again. It was all fine. I reinstalled Disc Burner, and tee problems started up immediately, seeing as I had not installed anything other than Disc Burner I thought that it couldn't be a conflict in software. I tried a clean reinstall again, failed, so I erased my hard drive and reinstalled the OS again. I went into an Apple shop and got the staff there to give me a copy of Disc Burner on CD, to see if I had downloaded a corrupted file, but the same thing happened again. After somebody suggested that it could be my burner that was faulty, and that installing software to make the computer recognise it showed up the faults I started from scratch again and just installed Toast. It worked fine, so I ruled out that theory. Later on down the track I tried to get Disc Burner installed and working, but had the same problems come up. I went through all my extensions, disabling some to see if there was a conflict there, but the problems remained. I had tried everything that I could think of when for some odd reason I decided to play with my network settings. I went through, named the computer and so on, then the problems were gone. I have had no real problems since, it is just that with networking turned on it takes quite a while to boot up, and is probably running slower than it would without. I have a reasonable period to wait when I try to wake it up from sleep. This is not a problem really, it is just that I think it should be running better, and I don't understand why the network settings made a difference with the burner at all. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Sorry for the longwinded email. Regards, Kelly Duffy- One very confused Mac user.
