Also it is taking longer to copy the same cd's I have always been copying, I tried cleaning and shutting down all the programs I was running with no success......HELP PLEASE.
Sounds like the DMA is disabled. Enable DMA in Windows (Device manager). It does not necessarily mean that DMA is enabled if BIOS reports e.g. Ultra DMA in boot up.
If I understood correctly you are saying that earlier things were better. Were they? Recording buffer was near full during the burning?! This would indicate that DMA was enabled during that time. I´m not experienced XP user so this might not be the exact way to enable DMA. I use win2k and 98. In Windows, start Device manager. You can enter it through "My computer" and right click "Properties". There should be Device manager tab somewhere (atleast in Win98 and W2k). You can access Device manager also through "Control panel". Anyway, in Device manager list you can see all the devices installed. Find device in which you can find primary and secondary harddrive controllers. Depending on which IDE channel the CD-rom is connected to, choose the other one. There you can enable DMA. After this system wants to reboot. If your Cd-rom does not support DMA it will propably be still disabled after reboot or may cause further problems.
Yes everything was find two days ago then all of a sudden I noticed the record level buffer jumping everywhere and the cd's I have always burned are taken longer to burn now. Now the other night after trying to burn something Nero froze and then I could not open it till I reset the computer then it came back on, this is when I started having problems. I will try this or should say my girlfriend will help because I live in Holland and my windows XP is in Dutch. Thank you Allan _X_X_X_X_X_[small]Al[/small]
If the recording buffer is jumping all over that means that the buffer is not getting data fast enough from your hard drive. One of the main causes I have seen for that is drive fragmentation. The hard drive seek head has to jump from platter to platter to find your data if your drive is fragmented. I have a separate partition just for burning cds/dvds and my buffer rarely ever jumps around since the partition only contains the data for what I am burning.
Well I wish I knew how to do that but I don't ,that is way out of my league. But this all seemed to start after Nero froze and I had to hit the reset on the computer to be able to open Nero express again. Your probably rite but why all of a sudden, I have been burning for a year and this never happened till now? I am so confused and just want to fix this but don't know how. I was thinking of uninstalling Nero then reinstalling it, maybe this would help?
did you already check that your drive is not operating in PIO mode instead of DMA? i didn't see you confirm doing this yet. (i might be blind tho) windows can revert your drive to PIO on it's own, mine did yesterday =) you can check the current transfer mode here: start -> stettings -> control panel -> system -> hardware -> device manager -> IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers check that both Primary & Secondary IDE channels have DMA if available on, in all that can be chosen.. if you see PIO anywhere in there, then for sure that's the culprit.. if it doesn't switch back to DMA after setting it to DMA if available and reboot.. then you need to uninstall the ATA/ATAPI controller (either primary or secondary, where the problem lies, not both) and let windows reinstall the driver on next boot
Yes I did set it back to DMA but it did nothing. Now are you saying if I uninstall one of these it reinstall itselt when rebooting? will this cause my windows to crash?or do I _eed to put the xp disc in when rebooting or do I just uninstall one of them then just reset the computer and it will do all this on its own without me doing anything? _X_X_X_X_X_[small]Al[/small]
do you mean that it did not revert from PIO to DMA or that it is DMA but you still get those buffer problems? if it's the first case (DMA if available on, but it still uses PIO) then uninstalling the driver, rebooting and letting windows reinstall the driver should help (windows keeps copies of all the drivers, so you don't need installation cd's or anything, it will detect the devices automaticly on boot, you'll just need to reboot when it's done installing them) this is exactly what i had to do lastnight, to get it back to DMA from PIO mode
It was in Pio and I changed it to DMA again but it did not want reboot so I rebooted and nothing changed. I will try the uninstall and rebbot. Thank you so much for your help.
