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					|  Posted: Sat, 1st Oct 2005 21:26    Post subject: A major slowdown while burning/coping from my dvd burner... |  |  
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					| I have a NEC 3500AG DVD burner and it used to burn and copy just fine, but lately when I burn or copy my whole computer slows down to the point I can't even play a song or open an internet explorer window! I have 1500MB of DDR dual channel which should be more than enough. Also the burning proccess takes longer no matter what speed I choose. If I burn at X8 it can take up to 20 mins!
 Thanks in adavnce for any help given.
 
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						werdercanuck
					
					
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					|  Posted: Sat, 1st Oct 2005 23:33    Post subject: |  |  
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					| make sure DMA is enabled. i had the same problem once and DMA was disabled, and no way of enabling it. what i had to do was, uninstall  IDE and reboot windoz to let it reinstall and everything was fine again
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					|  Posted: Sun, 2nd Oct 2005 00:19    Post subject: |  |  
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					| Well DMA is enabled but in "Multi-Word DMA Mode 2"
 I thought the HD should work at Ultra DMA Mode 5 and DVD/CD at DMA Mode 2. What is this Multi-Word shit?
 
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						werdercanuck
					
					
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					|  Posted: Sun, 2nd Oct 2005 00:43    Post subject: |  |  
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					| no idea what that is. my hd and dvd burner are both Ultra DMA Mode 2
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					|  Posted: Sun, 2nd Oct 2005 00:48    Post subject: |  |  
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					| Well I don't know what this Multi-Word is but it seems that after I uninstalled the IDEs ,everything was back to normal. Thanks for your help.
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						werdercanuck
					
					
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					|  Posted: Sun, 2nd Oct 2005 02:55    Post subject: |  |  
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					| any time
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					|  Posted: Sun, 2nd Oct 2005 06:19    Post subject: |  |  
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					| Were they NVidia drivers you trashed?
 I have an NEC burner my self and Multi-Word DMA set on the drive using the NVidia IDE drivers.  I have not had any problems, except burning anything from my SIS IDE Controller, always suspected NVidia's IDE driver.  When I had my VIA motherboard in place everything burnt fine from that Controller...
 
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