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burning cd-r taking 3-4 times longer

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bgmartin

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I have an iomega 16x10x40 and used to burn complete disks in like 7 min but now it is taking like 20-30 min to burn just one full cd. I tried defragging my system (p4 1.6, 80 gig deskstar, 512ram) but the burning is still slow.

Is my harddrive going bad? Are there any readily available utils I can test it with? Or is my system in need of a wipe and reinstall? It has been about 9 months since I built it so there might be a bunch of crap bogging it down. (I try to keep the kids and wife from installing software on it but am not totally successful)

I am not looking forward to having to reinstall all the software but will do it if it means I can burn cd's like I used to.

Thanks for any info

bgmartin
 
Don't take this the wrong way, but are you sure that the media you are using is rated at 16x or higher? It is quite possible you picked up soem cheap media that was only rated at 8x or something similar. If this is not the case, what does your buffer look like while burning, is it constantly full or does it remain pretty low? If the buffer remains high, make sure your cd recording software is set to use the MAX speed of the burner. If your buffer stays kind of low you may need to think about closing other programs that are open and stealing memory.

Good luck
 
Didn't think about the cd-r speed but I am using Imation 16x cd's. My burn speed is set to max and as for the buffer..I do not have a graph that i know of. I use cdrwin. I will look at what is running in the task manager to see if there is any big memory hogs.

This only started a few months ago so I am leaning towards having to reinstall the system. Just hate to do all that and it not fix the slow burns.

Thanks

bgmartin
 
One other thing you can try is flash your burner. The mfr. may have an update that can fix the problem. Also I wouldnt format just yet, try some different media so you can start eliminating possible causes.
 
One of the things I think it could be is the hard drive might be going bad. I put it thru the ringer so it might just be starting to fail on me. Is there some sort of utility that can check that?

Thanks
 
Is DMA enabled in the Device Manager for the burner? It might of have flipped over to "off" some where along the way.
 
I switched the secondary ide controller in my device manager to dma if available, the only option for dma, but when I rebooted the computer it says the current transfer mode is PIO still. Am I doing something wrong? My burns are still taking 3-4 times longer than they should.

Thanks,

bgmartin
 
Well..went looking in the event viewer and found all these:

The device, \Device\CdRom0, has a bad block.,
An error was detected on device \Device\CdRom0 during a paging operation.,

and my personal favorite:

The driver detected a controller error on \Device\CdRom1.


So, do i send my motherboard back to the manufacturer for replacement or what course of action do I have? Would reinstalling the system fix this? I don't think so since this seems hardware related.

Thanks for all yalls help.

bgmartin
 
In Device Manager uninstall the controller for that CD-RW, let Windows redetect and reinstall the drivers for the controller.

Hope this helps.
 
Also, do you have another HDD or CD-ROM? If so swap them around, i.e. Take out the CD-RW, put in the -ROM or HDD, for grins see if you can get DMA enabled on that.

I don't know if the CD-RW would have any affect on the controller card drivers.... what I'm also thinking is the CD-RW might be going bad or if they have a controller card built in it (like HDD's do), might be going bad....?????
 
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