Hi,
My roomate just bought a Lite-On SOHW-1673s and we installed it. I recommended lite-on because I have one (works amazingly BTW) and I read a lot of good reviews about this particular model (also, we both have similar Dell computers). So he orders it, it comes, and we install it. Everything should be fine. We updated the latest firmware, and it's using the latest driver (windows default) but whenever I try to burn a DVD it reads and writes EXTREMELY slow. It took over 1 hr. and 40 minutes to read and write Tombstone. I went into system settings and made sure it was set to DMA (ultra DMA 2 if I'm correct) and we went back into the case and the Lite-on (top) is set to master while the CD-RW (bottom) is set to slave. I'm confident that the cable is appropriately placed, but if extreme slowness is a symptom of misplaced cables then I will look into it again.
His system specs are a Dell Mobo, pentium4 2.73 Ghz, at least 256MB of RAM (I'm not upstairs in his room at the moment), and his burning software is directed to use free space from his secondary HD (well over 140 GB of free space). We have tried buring through 1click DVD and CloneDVD. Also we run those in tandem with ANYDVD. As far as OS goes, he's running XP professional with SP2.
I've tried eveything I can think of short of RMA the product back to Newegg and I'm hoping some of you guys might have an idea about what's wrong. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
My roomate just bought a Lite-On SOHW-1673s and we installed it. I recommended lite-on because I have one (works amazingly BTW) and I read a lot of good reviews about this particular model (also, we both have similar Dell computers). So he orders it, it comes, and we install it. Everything should be fine. We updated the latest firmware, and it's using the latest driver (windows default) but whenever I try to burn a DVD it reads and writes EXTREMELY slow. It took over 1 hr. and 40 minutes to read and write Tombstone. I went into system settings and made sure it was set to DMA (ultra DMA 2 if I'm correct) and we went back into the case and the Lite-on (top) is set to master while the CD-RW (bottom) is set to slave. I'm confident that the cable is appropriately placed, but if extreme slowness is a symptom of misplaced cables then I will look into it again.
His system specs are a Dell Mobo, pentium4 2.73 Ghz, at least 256MB of RAM (I'm not upstairs in his room at the moment), and his burning software is directed to use free space from his secondary HD (well over 140 GB of free space). We have tried buring through 1click DVD and CloneDVD. Also we run those in tandem with ANYDVD. As far as OS goes, he's running XP professional with SP2.
I've tried eveything I can think of short of RMA the product back to Newegg and I'm hoping some of you guys might have an idea about what's wrong. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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