Burns Process slower now than before ?

[nerys]

The system has 3 DVD-R drives in it (we do in house duplication for small time shops etc.. no warez or duping crap)

anyway when I built the system it could reliably burn 3 discs at 8x no problem about 16-20 minutes to finish a burn

NOW we can no longer do this. burns are more unreliable (more failures) and when I try to burn multiple (either 3 seperate or 3 same via nero) the buffer fluctuates wildly and it takes LONGER to burn than if I did it at 2x ! one time it took an hour and 10 minutes to burn !

Nothing hardware wise has changed on the system ? any suggestions as to what could cause this ? a way to fix it ? I imagine wiping the system and starting clean would solve it (and its due for that anyway) but thats a lot of work and in no way prevents this from happening again.

Suggestions ?

Chris Taylor
http://www.multipodaction.com/

[Marco33]

Since no one has replied, I'll take a shot.

Sometimes sytems change even without you knowing it. A driver here, a *.dll file there. When my system starts to screw up and I have know idea what's up, I update Windows. Most of the time it works.


Also your system might have a bad component. A while back I had a problem with my sytem just shutting off. The MOBO ended up being the problem. It worked fine before but all of a sudden I had a problem. A stick or ram might be going bad.

Since you are do for a system upgrade, I would do just that. With 3 burners, that sounds like a business and a great business right-off is a new computer. Don't be stingy, splurge. I do it every year.

[guns1inger]

16 - 20 minutes is slower than 4x. I have a 4x burner and burn a full disk in 14 minutes, give or take 30 seconds.

Try defragging the hard drive, check the status of the IDE channels to make sure windows hasn't decided PIO is better (it can do this), and check what processes are running int he background.

[INFRATOM]

My experience Nero does something that makes the computer slow, when I uninstall Nero clean registry and reinstall computer gets fast again. As nero is used it put so many registry entry's and gets slow again. If someone has the same experience please reply. Nero could be looking for something on internet!