EdgeCrusher Posted January 28, 2007 Share Posted January 28, 2007 I got an HP dual layer dvd+/-rw drive that I put in my pc less than a year ago. It's worked fine up till yesterday. I went to burn a dvd at 8x, and it took over an hour to do it. I've also noticed that it seems like it takes DVD shrink longer to analyse and encode too. I'm guessing that maybe the dvd burner is about to die out. Anyone had any experience of that happening before one kicks the bucket? Edit: burning another dvd right now at 4x, and it's still going at the same exact speed. Nero gives me the estimate like it use to, but its like, 40 minutes off. Plus I've noticed that when I use dvd shrink or nero, sometimes my mouse cursor on the screen will freeze up, but I can still move the mouse around and click on stuff. Its like, invisible mouse cursor or something. I have to guess at what I'm clicking at. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phill Posted January 29, 2007 Share Posted January 29, 2007 Just a quick thing to check, are you ide channels in DMA mode? don't know where that is, go to the device manager, select 'IDE ata/atapi controllers' and make sure that the IDE Channels have 'DMA if availabe' selected (Advanced Settings tab ->> transfer Mode) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EdgeCrusher Posted January 29, 2007 Author Share Posted January 29, 2007 All of them but one of the secondary had DMA if available selected. The first secondary IDE channel has PIO only listed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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