D drive of cd rom player playing sound slow

[robot legs]

Hi and happy new year

MY CD ROM on my d drive is playing DVD's sound slightly slow , the model number is HL-DT-ST DVD-ROMGDR8163B, can anyone be of help please?

I don't know if there is enough info here, buit I hope there is

[DragonQ]

1) Is DMA enabled on the drive?

2) Is Digital Sound enabled on the drive?

3) Have you tried giving Windows Media Player 10 (or whatever application you use to play DVDs) higher priority using Task Manager?

[robot legs]

Hi DragonQ I am not sure how to enable DMA , could you please help?

[redwudz]

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.