Ok this just started about 4-5 days ago and Im not sure why, but need a little help on the situation. So heres what happened. I have this dvd burner and I have tried burning quite a few different movies on different programs but it burns very slowly. I set it to burn at 4x but the actual speeds are usually around 0.45. After they burn which takes about 40 minutes I try to watch them and they will work but on certain parts they will just skip. I am running windows xp(not home edition) and the dvd burner I have is "HP DVD Writer 630i Can someone please help me!?!?!?
someone else the other day was having problems with their hp dvd burner not sure if it was the 630i. anyway they upgraded their firmware and all was gravy. so try that first.
Go into Device Manager and check to see if your burner is in DMA or PIO. It should be DMA. The process has been explained many times on different threads, so a search should give the "how to". This is the most common cause of the slowdown problems.
dang it says PIO in my secondary which is the one its on. So I have tried uninstalling and restarting and it found the secondary again but in current it still says pio
Try deleting the drive from Device Manager and see if it goes into DMA when you reboot the PC. After rebooting, you'll have to go back into Device manager and check to see if you're back in DMA or not. The drive is part of the plug and play setup, so the PC should pick it back up automatically. There are various options for deleting things in Device Manager to solve the problem. This is just one that worked for me.
Ok now I have done it 3 times and secondary IDE drive(where my dvd burner is on) now says "ultra dma mode 2" on all parts, but the primary drive(not where my burner is at) says dma on one and PIO on the other and I tried to burn and it was still telling me 8 minutes but it got to 0:00 time and was only on 18% burned and still burning
And where did you say that before that statement. I still don't see it. Check this. http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/189413 As I said more options and this topic has been worked to death. Read Nephilim's post. The thread is on the very same topic as this one. The thread above was started little over an hour before this one. Search? You appear to have the DMA situation solved on the secondary channel. One problem solved, but not the total solution obviously. What drive is the one now in PIO on the Primary? Something like Nero's info tool would be helpful to show the configuration and DMA settings. With "IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers" expanded, you can right click and uninstall the Primary and/or Secondary IDE Channels. With DVD/CD-ROM drives expanded, you can delete a drive that is stuck in PIO. Sometimes one or the other kicks the drive back into DMA. You weren't specific in what you said you had already done, deleting the drive or the channel. As I showed you here, it is a different step and a different heading in the Device Manager. Since you now have a drive on the Primary Channel in PI0, I'd suggest uninstalling the Primary Channel itself and rebooting. I've never tried deleting a drive on the Primary (by expanding "Disk drives") because normally all that is there are hard drives. Occasionally someone will install an optical drive as Slave on the Primary Channel.
It'll do the trick just fine brobear................... 99% of the time you are better off uninstalling the controller rather than the individual drive, as usually it is the controller that hangs in PIO mode after several bad reads attempts.................
baabaa Possibly, but with optical drives, I've seen cases where uninstalling the Secondary Channel wasn't successful in resetting DMA and the drive had to be uninstalled. It goes both ways. So, if one doesn't work, try the other. In most cases people try uninstalling the channel first.
Yep, one or the other does the trick..................unless the device can only run in PIO, very rare these days though.........sometimes the device can develop a fault and make it hang in PIO.........
Ok so I jsut tried uninstalling the primary one(this is the one that says PIO in current) I did it about 5 times but in primary there are 4 boxes Device 0-Transfer mode DMA" -Current transfer mode "DMA" Device 0-Transfer mode DMA" -Current transfer mode "PIO" So it still says PIO. I have also tried uninstalling the components the primary is attached to twice and still it says the same thing. The dvd burner is attached to my secondary drive though and I uninstalled it 3 tmes and everything changed to DMA now but its still burning slowly and messed up, so Im thinking it is my primary. What do I need to do now?
um15, What you want is on the Primary IDE Channel are the HD's On the Secondary IDE Channels you want the burner as the master and the DVD-Rom as the slave. Make sure that the correct cables are connected properly and the DVD burner (on the back of the burner)is correctly set to be the master. There is a picture on the top of the burner to show you what pins need to be covered up. Now check the DVD-Rom and make sure that is on the shorter connection of the same cable and make sure the back of that is setup as slave. See if that helps
