DVD burner problems.

[Vampire hunter D]

For the past couple of weeks lately, my DVD-R drive has been underwriting. When I first got the damn thing, it would take about 30-45 minutes to copy and burn a DVD, now it takes two hours or more. When I tried updating the firmware, it went back to normal for a little while, then started burning slowly again.

I've checked the settings on the programs and they're all set to burn at 16x for DVDs and 52x for CD-Rs. Could it be it's wearing out from burning at higher speeds?
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[shawn]

You probably already did this but in my computer right click on the DVD drive and click properties and under recording *XP* see if the speed area is set to fastest in the options. It also might just be a dirty laser also. Good luck either way though. <img src=smilies/cwm11.gif>
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[Atma]

> For the past couple of weeks lately, my DVD-R drive has been
> underwriting. When I first got the damn thing, it would
> take about 30-45 minutes to copy and burn a DVD, now it
> takes two hours or more. When I tried updating the
> firmware, it went back to normal for a little while, then
> started burning slowly again.

Is the drive (or controller more accurately) set to DMA? or is it using PiO?

Check control panel > system > hardware > device manager > IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers, and see if they're set correctly. For me, with PiO, it takes roughly 30 minutes to an hour to write+verify a dvd at any speed, with DMA it takes roughly 15 minutes to burn+verify at 8x, and half that at 16x.

Thats more or less the only thing that comes to mind from me.
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[shawn]

Good one dude, I didn't but should have thought of that. <img src=smilies/thumb.gif>
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