HP cd-writer 9500 does not write audio

[Kenny_4]

I just got my new 12X8X32X CD writer and it is having a write problem. It will not write audio CD's. PLEASE HELP!!!

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[Cheryl Griffin]

Kenny,
What machine do you have the writer attached to? What error does it fail with?

[David T. Darnell]

I just bought a Creative Labs writer. I had to enable DMA in bios setup and in the device options onder control panel/system before I could write an audio CD without buffer underrun (BUrn). After wasting only one blank media, I got an audio CD that sounds a good as the original.

Burning from .wav also helped reduce buffer underrun - burning from mp3 or other encoded format requires CPU overhead to decode as you go.

Only one problem - I have to disable DMA in control panel to get CDPlayer.exe to work!