just recently my dvd burner (a microadvantage product) has started to take forever to burn dvd's...it recognizes my blank media (either 4X or 8X)... starts the burn and even projects the appropriate time for the burn like approx. 8 min or approx. 13 min. ... then proceeds to take about 47 min. to complete the process...it gives me the successfully burned dialogue box and the disks seem to work fine in my player....i'm using NERO for my burning program and haven't changed a thing that i'm aware of?!?...it happens on three different blank media all of which i have successfully burned at the appropriate speed with, just days ago?....can anyone offer me any help or suggestion? thanks ....PUFF
Alright, first of all I would suspect that either your DVD-R is scratched. If that isn't the problem, maybe you have a bad connection with your writing drive to the power source. However, to replace a power source might cost you some money ($30-$120) but it might be loose also.
Your drive probably dropped out of DMA. An easy fix is to uninstall the drive through Device Manager like so: Go to Device Manager > Expand the tree for DVD/CD ROM Drives > Find the drive in question, right click it and go to Properties > Under the Driver tab, select Uninstall then OK. Now reboot and Windows should detect and reinstall the drive. If this doesn't help try the same steps as above except expand the tree for IDE ATA/ATA Controllers and uninstall either the Primary or Secondary controller depending on which one the drive in question is attatched to. Nero Info Tool can tell you which chain the drive is on under the Configuration tab. http://www.afterdawn.com/software/cdr_software/cdr_tools/nero_info_tool.cfm Once you do this you can check the transfer speed in the drive's Properties tab making sure the Current Transfer Speed is listed as DMA, not PIO.
thank you to both DVDomnatr and especially Nephilim for your advice...my burner did drop out of DMA and my fix was to uninstall the secondary IDE controller reboot and update with advanced settings the "use DMA if available" prompt in the setup of the controller after reboot...it seems that some timeout issues i was having with some blank media forced XP to drop me out of the DMA setting and i had to update as outlined above...thanks again for your heads up, it put me on the right track! PUFF
