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Overclock your HP CD-RW??
I am intrigued by the letter which appeared in this months PC-PLUS Magazine an extract is copied below....
>>>. I bought a CD-RW early this year and, at the time, it was what I would call state of the art (within my budget, anyway). It supported 32X read, 4X write, and 4X re-write with an on-board 2MB buffer. This has done me proud over the year but, because 1 was making more and more back-up copies, it was becoming increasingly frustrating to have to wait 20 minutes to burn a 74 minute CD.
Then one day 1 stumbled across an article referring to my drive. it claimed
that the drive I had bought was actually a different, better drive but with a speed restrictor switched on. Obviously you would normally take this concept
with a pinch of salt, but hey, 1 didn't have the money for a faster drive and really needed the speed, so I followed
the instructions.
The instructions said to upgrade the firmware and switch the machine
off at the wall during the upgrade, then load a different firmware on to it from a much more advanced model. The top and bottom of this is, it worked and I now have a 32 x 8 x 4 with 4MB buffer and a burn time reduced to just under
ten minutes. I've not replaced my unit,
just changed its identity. For your reference, the company is Hewlett- Packard and the CD-RW information was a HP8250i and is now identified as a 9100i
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I've trawled the net looking for more information about this but come up with a blank. Do any of you learned MURCers have any information about whether the guy is talking rubbish or whether we can all firmware upgrade various models in HP's series
Vic
>>>. I bought a CD-RW early this year and, at the time, it was what I would call state of the art (within my budget, anyway). It supported 32X read, 4X write, and 4X re-write with an on-board 2MB buffer. This has done me proud over the year but, because 1 was making more and more back-up copies, it was becoming increasingly frustrating to have to wait 20 minutes to burn a 74 minute CD.
Then one day 1 stumbled across an article referring to my drive. it claimed
that the drive I had bought was actually a different, better drive but with a speed restrictor switched on. Obviously you would normally take this concept
with a pinch of salt, but hey, 1 didn't have the money for a faster drive and really needed the speed, so I followed
the instructions.
The instructions said to upgrade the firmware and switch the machine
off at the wall during the upgrade, then load a different firmware on to it from a much more advanced model. The top and bottom of this is, it worked and I now have a 32 x 8 x 4 with 4MB buffer and a burn time reduced to just under
ten minutes. I've not replaced my unit,
just changed its identity. For your reference, the company is Hewlett- Packard and the CD-RW information was a HP8250i and is now identified as a 9100i
>>>
I've trawled the net looking for more information about this but come up with a blank. Do any of you learned MURCers have any information about whether the guy is talking rubbish or whether we can all firmware upgrade various models in HP's series
Vic
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