DVD Writer Issue

[kRiLLiN47]

I have been working with this for about a month, and can't figure it out.

I got a DVD Burner back in April, the drive worked fine, I don't know if by upgrading to SP2 on Windows XP is what caused this problem.

I will be listening to music, or doing something on my computer, and I go to copy something from my DVD drive to my computer, and the computer slows down. The mouse will slow down, the music will seem slow, and I'm not sure what to do. :roll:

I recently upgraded, and got a motherboard with SATA and upgraded my processor, hard drive, and memory, to an AMD 2700+ Athlon XP, Maxtor 200GB SATA Hard Drive, and 1GB of ram (2x512mb). :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

I have my main harddrive plugged into SATA, my DVD Drive on Primary IDE Master, and my 2 extra smaller harddrives on, Secondary IDE.

If anyone has any suggestions on how I should set up my drives for best performance, and can help me figure out the reason for my problem with my DVD Drive, that will be very helpful.

kRiLLiN

 

[compso]

Reinstall Windows and document the make and models of your hardware. Then obtain the latest of the following: chipset, bios, audio, lan, modem, video, audio, usb and any other necessary drivers. Install them one at a time and set a restore point. Your unstableness is probably due to the lack of proper software/code/drivers or an incompatibility, basically your software environment. The bottom line is it will be tough to tweak it out so you may want to save time and learn more important fundamentals by installing Windows XP SP2 properly.

 

[nanaki333]

when you upgraded, did you do a fresh install of windows or did you just keep everything the same? normally if the board you swapped with has the same chipset as the new board, you won't really have very many issues. however, if you're switching from via to nforce or SiS, or any combination, then you're going to have a pain in your rump and just like compso said, you'll have to reinstall and update all your drivers and what not.

 

[kRiLLiN47]

Well, I dont mean to be rude, but I'm not stupid to just swap and think everything will be ok, so yes, I did reinstall windows.

Actually Last Night, like an hour after I posted the message I found out the problem.

When you try to read discs on a DVD or CD drive, if you have had 6 CRC Errors, your Drive will revert back on setting to see if it can access the disk, so it went from Ultra DMA Mode 4 to Ultra DMA Mode 2 (I believe), and then set itself as PIO Only.

What I did, was went into the System Properties, Device Manager, and selected my Primary Channel which contained that cd drive, uninstalled it, and restarted my computer. When I got back into windows, it brought it back to Ultra DMA Mode 4, so I tried everything I've tried to copy before, and everything has been running smoothly ever since.

I read that on Microsoft somewhere, that they had this issue, but they didn't have a fix for it, so I search for the problem, on google, and came up with a link to a forum where people have done this same thing, and tried it and it worked perfectly.

Thanks for all the help though.

kRiLLiN47