dvddrive messing up

[dukenukem]

My pc has an dual layer liteon 1635S dvd burner but lately it has been messing up,it keeps having trouble opening and when i use dvd ripping programs the rip speed won't go above 1.7x although it was working just fine and would always go above that.is the dvd drive starting to die on me?

[redwudz]

Have you checked your DMA mode?

To check DMA/PIO mode within Windows:

Control Panel>System>Hardware>Device Manager>IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers.

From there, right click on one of the channels and choose 'Properties>Advanced Settings'. All drives should be DMA mode. The 'Current Transfer Mode' for Hard drives is usually DMA 4-6 and DVD burners DMA 2-4, DVD ROMs usually DMA 2. If you see any in PIO mode, that can slow things down.

Changing them back may be easy or complicated. First see if you can change them in that window. If not, I usually uninstall the channel and let the OS reinstall it. This will usually take a reboot.

From there, if no luck, get back to us.

[dukenukem]

Did what you said and restarted the system but still doing the same thing.

[jimmalenko]

Maybe the lens needs cleaning ?

[dukenukem]

Well i used system restore to roll windows back to the 11th of this month and the dvd drive is back to dma mode now,don't know why it was changed ti pio though.

[redwudz]

If a drive has about 5 consecutive failures at reading a disc, the OS defaults the drive channel to PIO mode. Unfortunately it doesn't tell you when that happens. Anytime you have a drive slow down, you need to check this. Usually the easiest way to reset it is to delete that IDE channel and let the OS restore it on reboot. If that doesn't work, or using restore doesn't, then you may have to modify the registry.