Hi, I have been using DVD Decrypter for almost a year now and all has been going well. Recently however that has changed. When I rip a DVD it is only ripping at 1.5x and not the usual 8x or higher it used to. Also when burning a DVD it is burning at 1-1.5x and not what I am setting it at which is usually 2.4x for DL and 4x for single layer DVDs. I have a Plextor 716a DVD drive and I am using Verbatim DVD+R DL and Verbatim DVD+R DVDs. My drive has been flashed to the latest firmware. I would appreciate your help with this. My playback has also completely crapped out lately with stutter skips and lag, so perhaps these issues are related. Mark
Hi Mark9977 sounds to me like you are suck in PIO mode instead of DMA mode. To fix goto My computer9right click)-properties-hardware-devicemanager and select IDE ATA/ATAPI controlers and open the drop down box right click on the primary IDE channel and click uninstall repeat this for the secondary IDE channel and reboot, this will reinstall all your drivers an normally fixes tha problem. If not post back and we will see what we can do, just out of curiosity have you done a clean install or added any drices recently?
Hi, Thanks for the reply. I will try that. I remember reading somewhere that if a drive has a hard time reading a DVD it will sometimes switch back to PIO, and I had a DVD a few months ago that constantly had to retry the read, perhaps that reset it. It says they are all DMA, and one is DMA multi-word. I will delete them and restart though, as that is worth a shot. I have another quick question before I do that. I have two IDE hard drives, a DVD drive, and a CD drive. How should they be set up on the two channels? Which should be the master and which should be the slave for each channel? I believe there are two channels, I have an ASUS P4P800e-dlx mobo. Cheers, Mark
Mark I belive you are right the misreads probably put you back into PIO mode of it detects read errors ( I believe its about 6 ) it will revert back. As for which should be set up on what IDE channels i have my hard drives as primary IDE and my dvd drives on the secondary IDE channel. As for which is slave and which is master I have 80 core cable select cables in place ( cable select cables can be indebtified by the fact that one of the pins is blanked on the connector ) so I set all my drives to cable select ensuring that the jumpers are in the correct place as per the diagram on the back of the drives. You could also try this bit of advice on using regedit to switch back to DMA mode http://sniptools.com/tipstricks/getting-back-to-dma-mode-in-windows-xp So first ensure you have the correct cables and the jumpers are selected correctly on all of your drives then try the regedit solution and post back with what happens Good luck dude
Hi, Thanks, great advice, that solved it. I just uninstalled them and rebooted. I didn;t get a chance to try the link you provided, but have bookmarked it for the next time it happens. Cheers, Mark
The Asus P4P800-E Deluxe comes with a full set of cables to set up a PC, unless it's a refurbished board without the extras. Hard drives go to the Primary IDE Channel. It uses the Master-Slave set up, not computer select. The Secondary IDE Channel has the optical drives. It really makes no difference unless you intend running the CD and DVD drive simultaneously. Master has precedence over Slave, normally I'd suggest putting the DVD drive at Master. Some drives specify a position, that info is usually in the installation instructions. As I said though, it makes little difference. As mentioned, uninstalling the IDE channel is the best way of getting the system back to DMA. You only need to uninstall the channel that is in PIO, one or both; if just the optical drive, the channel it's on, usually Secondary. A number of things can cause a system to go into PIO, the read problems mentioned, but also hardware problems. I just saw a person stuck in PIO due to a faulty cable going to the optical drives. Temporary problems that cause a system to revert to PIO can be remedied by the reset with uninstall from the Device Manager. Just be aware that sometimes there can be problems that have to be repaired before switching back to DMA can be accomplished. As long as a system has been working and no one has been tampering around inside the PC, most of the PIO problems are of the temporary type. So always do the check through device manager before going into more complicated troubleshooting.
