Burning is taking twice as long for some reason..need help!!

[Bocephus]

Ok, Iam puzzled. I have not did anything to my pc different with in the last week. Yet when I attempt to burn a dvd r+ it now takes more than twice as long than it did last night (from 15 mins to 1 hour. I have changed nothing over night. Someone else must have had this same problem. If so please help. A buddy of mine had this happen. He ended up reinstalling his whole OS but I dont think that is needed. Can anyone tell me why this might be happening? Thank you

[BobK]

Check and make sure DMA is enabled. I'd almost bet money that it's not. (If you're using Windows XP it may have disabled itself- that's happened to me a few times for no reason that I can find).

If you have trouble re-enabling it, uninstall the IDE channel and reboot.

(BTW- from 15 minutes to 1 hour is 4 times as long, not twice).

[Bocephus]

Bobk, I looked in the Secondary IDE Channel properties box and Device 0 was set to "Transfer Mode: PIO only". I changed that to DMA if available. We'll see if that works. Primary IDE Channel was already set.

[Bocephus]

Ok, I tried that and no luck. Should I be looking else where to enable DMA besides in the Device Manager? I thought it could have been the media so I tried another brand that I know worked a few days ago. Still taking forever. Any more ideas?

[Bocephus]

Ok its fixed. I had to uninstall the Secondary IDE Channel to get it to set to UDMA. Now it works fine. Thanks