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Max speed dropping

Discussion in 'DVDR' started by MilkStain, Sep 24, 2004.

  1. MilkStain

    MilkStain Member

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    I have a DRU-540a and its max burning speed is 40x.. i installed 120% alcohol and changed the setting to safedisk 2/3 and burned my cd.. after it was finished i went to burn another cd and noticed that the max speed dropped from 40x down 32x so i closed alcohol and opened nero and noticed that it was at 32x as well..im using 48x compatible cd-rs and i was able to burn 2 cd's at 40x before installing alcohol about 20 mins earlier...does anyone know how to fix this?

     
  2. ScubaPete

    ScubaPete Senior member

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    MilkStain,

    Have you checked to see if you're in DMA or PIO mode ?

    Device manager, IDE, your burner, advanced properties -

    http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/storage/IDE-DMA.mspx

    You want DMA.

    You can always uninstall your burner and let windows find it again.

    Also, do a Defrag and most importantly, clean up your registry - that will slow you down no matter what else you've done -

    http://www.download.com/3000-2094-881470.html?tag=list

    Check your ASPI LAYER -

    http://aspi.radified.com/

    Recheck your Firmware -

    http://forum.rpc1.org/dl_all.php

    Cheers,

    Pete


     
  3. MilkStain

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    I cleaned my reg,defraged, updated my firmware...when i updated my firmware it showed it being able to write at 40x but once i inserted the disk into the drive it went back down to 32x
     
  4. catfreak

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     ... maybe this thread belongs in the CD section instead of the DVD section ...
     

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