Nero 6 Slow Burning.... WHY ???

[sjtpepper]

Hi there "Oh Knowledgable Ones"
Can anyone please help me sort out this problem with Nero 6. I have an XP pro enabled pc with buckets of ddr and acres of hdd space but am getting slow burn times on my Highly reliable Nec 2500a with 8x dvd-r's. I don't use cheap discs either. It used to burn a full disc in under 9 mins, but has suddenly gone up to a finger tapping 14 mins+ any idea why???? I have ibstalled service pack2 (windows) but it was doing this before.
All help will be blessed.

Thanks,
sjtpepper

[Gurm]

Has it suddenly decided that your drive can't be in UDMA mode any more? Happens a lot with XP - drive gets an error and XP decides to step it down to PIO4. Bleh.

The fix is to go to device manager, remove the controller the drive is on (not just the drive, but the controller) and reboot.

[glockjs]

set dma in bios too. also when is the last time you defragged your hdd?

[sjtpepper]

I looked at the DMA on the drive.. set to udma where possible. I daren't attempt to "play with the Bios"
I guess more suggestions may be needed?

Thanks so far...

sjtpepper

[glockjs]

bios is easy..but if you dont wanna mess with it and your runnin an intel there is proggys that auto set up high performance..somebody help me out with a link

[sjtpepper]

I'm Running Athlon XP 2600+
I will try to defrag the drives over the next few days.
I will keep you posted.

cheers,
sjtpepper

[sjtpepper]

Well I did all the de-fragging that can be done, but it still chooses to write slower than it should.
Any further ideas?

thanks

[iooi]

Looks like a dma issue then. Have a look in bios. You dont have to alter anything, just check.
Could also be wrong speed media. There seems to be a lot of supposed 8X which turn out to be only 4X disks.....

[sjtpepper]

Thanks, but what am I looking for in the bios?

I can be contacted directly via sjtpeper@aol.com

thanks

[glockjs]

Integrated Periphals>>>IDE>>>at this point you should get a list...i would make sure everything is in udma mode...primary channel udma 5 secondary channel udma 4

[sjtpepper]

I looked in the bios.. as you said but the IDE options were not highlighted so i couldn't alter anything. I uninstalled the drives and re-booted, windows put them back in and it burned correctly, just over 8 mins. Did a second....... 14mins 30 secs!!!! what is going on??????
HELP...

[glockjs]

it probably switched back to pio after the first burn. not sure about your options. what kind of board are you running? you could try updating your bios that might help.

[sjtpepper]

I have an MSI board 8 months old. I checked the PIO and it's still Udma where possible.
The board does have a live update option, but i am weary of using it because of the possible consequences should i **** it up. I reckon it might have something to do with the drive lens.. being dirty. I will try and "get in there" to clean it.

[GKar]

Did you happen to use any program that tweaks Windows XP cache settings? I used one until I realized it was honking up the speed of my burns. Just a thought.

[sjtpepper]

Not knowingly. but i have used progs regularly like, reg scan and windows washer etc. it's freaky, i don't know what to do next.

Thanks for all your replies and help.

[GKar]

If you have Ghost or Drive Image you can backup your whole system to another partition and then reinstall Windows XP to see if it is something wrong on your O/S rather than hardware, just reinstall what you need to burn and see if it works, if it does that means your O/S is honked up, if it doesn't then either its hardware or a hardware driver issue.