DVD Burner is very very slow

[oliverclosov]

Hey guys, long time no speak........My problem is that my DVD Burner is very very slow and I can't figure out why. I had a Sony DRU-820A which burns at up to 16x, when I was backing up my movies (in case the kids scratched the originals) it use to take less then 10 mins. to burn a dvd (using Nero 6.6.1.4) then one day it took over 1hr. to burn a dvd(I only had the burner for about 2 months). So I tried a few more and the all took between 1-1.5hrs to burn :( When Nero 1st started burning is showed that total time would be 8mins or so, but then it would just go into extra time for over an hour. I thought that my burner may be dead but the movies still did play on my dvd player after nero was done. I went out and bought another burner (same kind) but it is also burning slow too :( I was wondering if there is something that I may have done to screw up the settings of my burner or somthing......does anyone know why it may be burning so slow?
I am running XP on an Asus A7A motherboard with an AMD Athlon 1.2GHZ processor, and 512MB of RAM.

Thanks for the help ;)

[Cricket]

How are you doing the burn? Disk to disk? Ripping the movie to the hard drive first and then to the burner?

Is DMA enabled?

Have you scanned for viruses and malware yet?

Have you cleaned the system with a temp file cleaner like Disk Cleanup or CCleaner?

Have you defragged your hard drive yet?

How full is your hard drive? If it's too full (less than 15% free space) the swap file may not have enough space to work. Adding more physical RAM would help.

:) Cricket

[oliverclosov]

Hello, thanks for the response........I used bit defender and AVG to scan for viruses (none), I
used disk keeper to defrag the dive, and adaware to get rid of any crap, as well as window washer to clear the temp files etc.....I can't remember how to see if DMA is enabled ?

[TwoRails]

....I can't remember how to see if DMA is enabled ?Opened Device Manager, double-click on your IDE ATA controllers, then check your separate IDE channels. Each will show what what speed the device(s) are running at.

[oliverclosov]

sorry, I had to bring the wife to work :)

OK, so my primaty ide is running ultra DMA mode 5 BUT my secondary ide is running PIO mode.......how do I change it to DMA ? :confused:

[LeftyAce]

Make sure it's jumpered correctly (on an 80 wire IDE cable, jumper both drives to Cable Select....80 wire cables have thinner ridges and the connector on the motherboard is a different color).

Then right click on the drive in device manager, and remove it. Re boot, and windows will see a "new" drive and should configure it properly with DMA enabled.

[oliverclosov]

Hey guys, I found the instruction below on a search and it fix everything for me :)
ALl is good and everything is working now......
Thanks for all the help :D


Following is the mechanism that has worked for me, please try it at your own risk, it involves hacking the registry:

Open RegEdit
Find the following KEY:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\ Class\{4D36E96A-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}\000x
The last four digits will be 0000, 0001, 0002, 0003, and so on.
Under each key, delete all occurences of the following values:
MasterIdDataChecksum
SlaveIdDataChecksum
Reboot the computer. Windows will now redetect DMA settings.

[tigstah]

thats odd. you had to do a registry hack to get it to burn faster.....
hey if its working for ya......