DVD Burner won't buffer

[ClAy]

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I have an HP DVD writer 640 b running on Windows XP media center edition.
Out of nowhere my burner slowed down from reading and writing all discs from
8x speed to between 1.4 and 2.5 x speeds. This is quite annoying. What the
heck happened? I installed no new software of any kind. Just burned one
disc fine, and the very next disc, it was just running slow. POS syndrome?

 

[Malke]

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Clay wrote:

> I have an HP DVD writer 640 b running on Windows XP media center
> edition. Out of nowhere my burner slowed down from reading and writing
> all discs from
> 8x speed to between 1.4 and 2.5 x speeds. This is quite annoying.
> What the
> heck happened? I installed no new software of any kind. Just burned
> one
> disc fine, and the very next disc, it was just running slow. POS
> syndrome?

Check to make sure the drive is using the proper mode - it should be
DMA. It definitely should *not* be PIO. Here is a link explaining All:

http://www.michna.com/kb/WxDMA.htm

Malke
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[Guest]

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What software are you using to create your DVDs? I am not sure about MCE
but XP Pro/Home does not allow the creation of DVDs natively.


"Malke" <invalid@not-real.com> wrote in message
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> Clay wrote:
>
>> I have an HP DVD writer 640 b running on Windows XP media center
>> edition. Out of nowhere my burner slowed down from reading and writing
>> all discs from
>> 8x speed to between 1.4 and 2.5 x speeds. This is quite annoying.
>> What the
>> heck happened? I installed no new software of any kind. Just burned
>> one
>> disc fine, and the very next disc, it was just running slow. POS
>> syndrome?
>
> Check to make sure the drive is using the proper mode - it should be
> DMA. It definitely should *not* be PIO. Here is a link explaining All:
>
> http://www.michna.com/kb/WxDMA.htm
>
> Malke
> --
> Elephant Boy Computers
> www.elephantboycomputers.com
> "Don't Panic!"
> MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User