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Windows Forum / Windows XP / Performance and Maintainance / February 2007Slow DVD Burning with Nero R6
I have two P-IV tower systems at home: one is an older 2.0 GHz system with an Intel MB and 768MB RAM. The second has a P-IV HT 2.8GHz CPU, ASUS MB, and 1GB RAM. Both run Window XP Pro SP2 with Nero 6.6 retail. Normally I burn a dozen DVDs each week and have been doing so for the past three years. About four months ago I replaced the internal ATA DVD burners in each one with 16x burners of different brands (Samsung, A-Open) and both systems worked fine. Last week (Feb 17) I let Windows apply seven priority security patches: KB927779 KB927802 KB928255 KB924667 KB931836 KB926436 KB918118 Since then both systems have been running Nero Burning ROM in SLOW mode. It takes now 40 minutes to an hour to burn an 8x or 16x DVD-R and a similar time to verify. When the burn starts the correct speed of burn is shown but it's obviously running much slower. Nero's buffer-full indicator now frequently empties whereas previously it was always 98% full. The verify speeds that used to be high (12x or better) are now below 2x. I have tried several brands of 8x and 16x DVD-R discs. Yesterday I sent the details to Nero but have not heard back from them. Today I used Windows System restore to go back to a February 16 configuration (before the seven patches) on the older P-IV system. The DVD burner has resumed its normal performance. What's up? Which is the bad patch? Couldn't you now go to the Windows Update page (on the functioning computer) and apply each of them one at a time and find out which one kills performance? Once you locate the offending Update, then uninstall it from the other computer. GP ---> > I have two P-IV tower systems at home: one is an older 2.0 GHz system with an > Intel MB and 768MB RAM. The second has a P-IV HT 2.8GHz CPU, ASUS MB, and [quoted text clipped - 27 lines] > > What's up? Which is the bad patch? Both computers are fully functional though one still handles DVDs in slow mode. I was hoping someone might have already done the work, which is not trivial. > Couldn't you now go to the Windows Update page (on the functioning > computer) and apply each of them one at a time and find out which one [quoted text clipped - 35 lines] > > > > What's up? Which is the bad patch? All of Feb's patches are for a work place setting, the average home computer need not apply. http://ultimatewindowssecurity.com/ Perhaps one of the hotfixes changed your burner from DMA to PIO mode? If it happens again check it in device manager. -- Mike Pawlak Thanks for the info. The DMA issue jumped to mind but it's no longer possible (or at least easy) to change it back. DMA was once a Device Manager check box but it no longer shows. My older system, the one on which I undid the patches, has an Intel MB so I suppose I could always rerun the Intel Application Accelerator but the other machine, still in slow mode, has an ASUS board. > All of Feb's patches are for a work place setting, the average home computer > need not apply. [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > -- > Mike Pawlak Go here: http://www.buzzypedia.com/reviews/LG_GSA-H20L_Rewriter And scroll down to the "Installation and Setup" chapter. It explains how to change PIO mode back to DMA. > Thanks for the info. The DMA issue jumped to mind but it's no longer > possible (or at least easy) to change it back. DMA was once a Device Manager [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] >> -- >> Mike Pawlak Thank you for that good advice. Damn MS for moving those options around! On my newer system, without removing the security patches, I removed and then reinstalled my secondary IDE channel and its device's status went from the dreaded PIO to Ulta DMA 2. > Go here: > [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > >> -- > >> Mike Pawlak |
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