"screen Of Death" After Cd Burn Finishes?

[PatrickD]

Long-time user here...I have a mirror-door G4, running 10.4.11, Silverlining D2 external burner. Toast 7 was a reliable workhorse, and I'm still using it for all my CD and DVD burns. Here's why: in Toast 8, every third burn or so (an average) once the burn is completed (completion bar fills out) my Mac crashes and I get the Tower of Babel death screen and I must restart. This became such a frustration that I continue to use T7. Anyone with similar experiences or suggestions I'm all ears! I'd love to get 9, and I'm planning on upgrading to Leopard soon but these crashes are a real concern. Thanks everybody!

 

pd

[PatrickD]

All I can suggest is downloading Rember and do a thorough RAM test. It may be that Toast is accessing a part of RAM that is defective.

Thanks tsantee. Rember shows no defects. However, I do have only 768M RAM, one 512 and one 256 (other two slots are empty). Maybe Toast 9 will not exhibit this problem but 7 is so stable maybe I'll just keep using it...I primarily use Toast for CD music burning so unless there are improved related features in 9...

[tsantee]

Thanks tsantee. Rember shows no defects. However, I do have only 768M RAM, one 512 and one 256 (other two slots are empty). Maybe Toast 9 will not exhibit this problem but 7 is so stable maybe I'll just keep using it...I primarily use Toast for CD music burning so unless there are improved related features in 9...

Toast is a major user of RAM so that still may be what triggers the problem, although I'm just guessing and don't know this for certain.

 

Toast 9 has some additional audio CD tools such as cross fading that came from Jam 6. But I think you'd need more RAM.

[tsantee]

All I can suggest is downloading Rember and do a thorough RAM test. It may be that Toast is accessing a part of RAM that is defective.