My DVDs burn SLLLLLLLLLOW - what's wrong? (on a PC)

[needhelpdvd]

When I try burning a DVD ISO or an authored DVD movie, my drive takes anywhere from 35-60 minutes to burn a single 4.7gb disc! I am using 16x speed Verbatim DVD-Rs and burning at max speed. The software I've tried is Nero Ultimate 7 and Roxio Creator 8 Suite and both are equally poor in burn time. What's wrong?

Thanks!

[Delta2]

I had similar problems before. Then I unplugged all cables and set everything to Cable Select mode : hard disks and dvd drives.

I changed the DVD drive to another IDE controller

Even now if I insert media in both my DVD-RW drive and DVD-R drive...my PC slows down 50%

is my defective board

[GhostRider_71]

Hi, Check to see if the DMA has been enabled....

Right click MY COMPUTER...
Goto HARDWARE>>>>>>>DEVICE MANAGER
Click on IDE ATA/ATAPI CONTROLLERS.
Right click on PRIMARY CHANNEL>>>>>PROPERTIES>>ADVANCED SETTINGS...
Check if TRANSFER MODE is set to DMA IF AVAILABLE.
Do that for DEVICE 0 and DEVICE 1.
Goto to SECONDARY IDE Channel and do the same....

Reboot computer and try again..

Good Luck...

[needhelpdvd]

thanks for your input - I've tried what you've suggested (it was enabled), so now I'm trying this out: http://winhlp.com/WxDMA.htm (source: https://forum.videohelp.com/viewtopic.php?p=1574764#1574764)

I don't need to burn anything right away and I don't want to waste potentially an hour of my time waiting to figure out whether it worked :P so I'm going to try to hunt down something I needed to burn anyway in the next few hours

thanks again

[KBeee]

And if DMA IF AVAILABLE is greyed out, then delete the Primary and Secondary channels, and reboot to let Windows re-install them.
Then the DMA IF AVAILABLE should be usable. Select it, and reboot again.

[needhelpdvd]

now I'm trying this out: http://winhlp.com/WxDMA.htm (source: https://forum.videohelp.com/viewtopic.php?p=1574764#1574764)

YESSSSSSSSSSSS! this worked perfectly, I'm proud to report a 6-7 minute burn! And it took no effort at all, just a download, double-click, and restart! AWESOME.

[lordsmurf]

I have this problem on one computer, cannot burn faster than 4x. If I try 8x-16x, the burn takes 30 minutes (longer than 4x!). The POS VIA motherboard is the culprit. I just need to trash it sometime.