dvd burner hogs cpu

[luvvbuzz]

hi folks. i am having trouble with my liteon dvd writer its the model shw 1635s. the problem didnt exist until about a week ago. i dont know when exactly it started as there was a week where i didnt burn anything so could have happened bewteen that time. it just took me 15minutes to burn a 700mb data disk using nero 6. i selected to burn it at 40x and that would usually be done in under 5 minutes. when im burning the cpu usage shoots up to 100% and stays that way until its done. i havent been able to burn a dvd as the time it would take would be like 2 hours lol.
so i tried a different burning application, same problem occured. i tried defferent media, same problem occured. my ide devices are set to use DMA if available. now im all out of reasons why this could be happening and how i can fix it. the burner and computer are only a year old, burners not had heavy use. anybody got any suggestions on what i might try, as i dont wanna buy a new drive

[luvvbuzz]

heres the sisoft report on that drive

SiSoftware Sandra

General Information
Controller : 2
Bus : 0
Target ID : 0
Logical Unit No. : 0

General Capabilities
Channel : Master
Type : ATAPI
Removable : Yes
Present : No
Model : LITE-ON DVDRW SHW-1635S
Revision : YP40
Serial Number :
ATA/ATAPI Approved Version : 6.00

CD Reader Capabilities
CD-ROM : Yes
CD-R : Yes
CD-RW : Yes
Multi-Session : Yes
Audio Play : Yes

CD Writer Capabilities
CD-R : Yes
CD-RW : Yes

DVD Reader Capabilities
DVD-ROM : Yes
DVD-R : Yes
DVD+R : Yes
DVD+RW : Yes
DVD+R DL : Yes

DVD Writer Capabilities
DVD-R : Yes
DVD-RW : Yes

Properties
CMD Request Type : Accelerated DRQ
CMD Packet Size : 12
IORDY Support : Yes
IORDY Disableable : No
LBA Support : Yes
DMA Support : Yes

Features
S.M.A.R.T Support : No
Security Support : No
Power Management Support : No
ACPI Power Management Support : No
Power-up in Standby : No
Packet Command Interface : Yes
Removable Media : No
Look-Ahead Buffer : No
Write-Back Cache : No
Host Protect Area : No
Microcode Update : No
Acoustic Management : No
48-bit LBA : No
Device Config Overlay : No

Transfer Modes Support
Width : 16-bit
Maximum PIO Mode : PIO-4
Maximum DMA MW Mode : MWDMA-2
Maximum UDMA Mode : UDMA-4

Transfer Modes Active
Current Active Mode : UDMA-4

[Capmaster]

That is strange

I would try uninstalling/reinstalling Nero, using their clean-up utility between the two. Use this tool:

http://ww2.nero.com/nero6/enu/General_CleanTool.html

And make sure you have the latest driver in your Windows/system32 folder. Here's where to find it:

http://ww2.nero.com/nero6/enu/WNASPI32.DLL.html

I occasionally have to do this when Nero starts behaving strangely.

The way you described it at first, my first instinct was that it's an interface problem, but Sandra reports you're at UDMA-4. That should be plenty fast.

[grossjamesh]

You may have picked up some spyware or a virus. Run Hijackthis and post the results on
http://www.techguy.org/ for analysis.

[luvvbuzz]

thanx for your suggestions, i will try what Capmaster said first and if that doesnt help i will try the hijack this thingy.
thanx

[Capmaster]

grossjamesh brings up a valid point. It would be a good idea to run your anti-spyware apps even if you do get the problem solved, and get yourself a copy of Rootkit Revealer too.

It ferrets out "Sonyware" and other devious little things that embed themselves in your registry It's free. PM me if you can't find it Googling and I'll shoot you a copy

[luvvbuzz]

well done what capmaster said to do, they didnt fix the problem. i did run rootkit revealer this is what it found....

HKLM\SECURITY\Policy\Secrets\SAC* 09/11/2004 14:36 0 bytes Key name contains embedded nulls (*)

HKLM\SECURITY\Policy\Secrets\SAI* 09/11/2004 14:36 0 bytes Key name contains embedded nulls (*)

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{BEB3C0C7-B648-4257-96D9-B5D024816E27}\Version*Version 24/02/2006 03:09 0 bytes Key name contains embedded nulls (*)

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Cryptography\RNG\Seed 10/12/2006 18:02 80 bytes Data mismatch between Windows API and raw hive data.

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Minnetonka Audio Software\SurCode Dolby Digital Premiere\Version*Version 24/02/2006 03:09 0 bytes Key name contains embedded nulls (*)

have run hijack this and posted the log on that website but no reply to that yet after about 10 hours so need to wait and see if the hijack this topic gets a reply or not.
before i posted here i did do a scan with spybot, adaware and my AVG but nothing found that couldnt be fixed by that software.
thanx for your suggestions, after this i wont know what to do about it.

[luvvbuzz]

i dunno if that got any bad root kit in it but looks like i will need to get myself a new dvd burner now grrrr

[Capmaster]

It might have really been the burner then.

[luvvbuzz]

yer i tried my old burner in my pc today and it woked fine, no cpu hogging at all, must have been the burner. not to worry, with xmas round the corner i can ask somebody to get me one for xmas lol. thanx for your advice.