I just joined this site but have been searching through all the posts for a few weeks trying to fix my problems. I am hoping someone can help me as I am a beginner to all this. I have a Sony DRU-800 drive (new), running 1clickdvdcopy with latest firmware, Dvd Region CSS decryptor and windows XP (home edition) on my Dell...1.6, 768 ram. I have burned about 12 movies with no problems, purchased softwares and a few movies later started having problems. It used to take about 30-40 minutes per movie and is now saying it will take 2 hours. I read about checking the DMA but there is no advance settings tab, just general, driver, details and resources. I have tried many times to uninstall and that never changes anything. How do I check bios? Determine which motherboard I have? Any help would be greatly appreciated..not sure what happened...it all worked great then quit. I have tried 3 different forms of media and had great luck with memorex's from walmart....
when your cheking for the DMA PIO mode are you looking uner the properties of the DVD-ROM? if so you need to open up device manager and look at the IDE controlers that are in the list click on them and then go properties and then go to advvance tab for the DMA and PIO mode settings. Make sure they are in DMA Mode and not PIO mode. if you try to cahnge and they wont go into DMA mode then delete the IDE channel the burrner is installed on and restart.
Just a graphic/visual guide to what larry was talking about: Check your DMA settings - How ? do this -> Go to Control Panel> System> Hardware Tab> Device Manager> IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers> Right Click Primary IDE channel (and Secondary IDE channel after you finish with Primary)> Properties> Advanced Settings Tab> Transfer Mode or go here: http://club.cdfreaks.com/showthread.php?t=101616 Do the above from both "Primary & Secondary IDE channels". I (We) and you need to look at whats in both "Transfer Mode" and "Current Transfer Mode". Screen shot below is what I'm talking about. If it is in "PIO" mode. Click the "Driver" tab, and uninstall the driver. Then reboot. Upon rebooting windows will automatically reinstall the driver and it should go back to "DMA" mode.
If you have a Dell check at the Dell site and see if there is an upgrade for your MB. Also, insure that you have background programs shutdown and are not multi-tasking free up as much ram as possible. Defrag your HDD and check for spyware.
