Solve : Extremely slow DVD burn :( 10+ hours?

1.	Solve : Extremely slow DVD burn :( 10+ hours?
Answer» Hi there Here are my specs: ASUS P4PE Motherboard 768MB DDR 266 RAM (3x 256MB 266) Intel Celeron 2.5Ghz Cpu 4 Hdd's; 3x40 gb's at IDE 0 primary and slave and IDE 1 Primary 1x20Gb at onboard sata/ide controller Lite-On DVD+/-R/RW 20x LH-0A1P (I think) Anyway here is my problem: lately I have had exremely slow dvd burns and I mean SLOW I am using ConvertXtoDVD and yes its fully paid for no piracy issues! As of lately I had to reinstall Windows XP due to the machine not letting me login fully and not going past the loading personal setings phase. After this I have installed all chipset and gfx, sound DRIVERS ect... after a few days I wanted to continue burning my school project onto DVD's and so REINSTALLED ConvX2DVD suprise suprise the pre-converted files took almost 13 hours to burn! (4.16GB project) During the burn I noticed it notes burning in PIO mode and so I took the STEPS to fix that, whice were to uninstall Intell Application Accelerator and uninstall primary and secondary IDE Channels and now the DVD drive sits ad UDMA 4 and the HDD's at UDMA5 I am retrying the burn and at this point it still takes 3 minutes to do .5% and by my calculations 1% is approx 6 mins so whole burn is about 6x100%=600 minutes = 10 hours! I noted that this time it stated UDMA mode 4 in the log but still takes ages.... another thing to note is the light on the front of the burner doesn't flash at a constant rate like it used to but rather flashes at random every half secnd or so like rapid hunfire (sorry for description but best thing I could think of) After this burn completes I will post the Log Any ideas are appreciated!! Kurtis Quote Any ideas are appreciated!! Ideas, eh? It could be: CD Driver Issues Background Processes taking up all the CPU power Bad file CD Driver Issues Make sure the driver is the most recent one. I would reinstall it. Background Processes taking up all the CPU power Anything seem like this in Task Manager (High Memory Usage or CPU %age) Bad file Converted file not converted properly or converted with problems.Well, solutions would be nice too No drivers are installed for the DVD burner only windows standard and I did reinstall those. Checked background processes...See atached Bad file, just ported the VIDEO_TS Folder over to my work laptop (naughty I know) and DVD burnt in under 15 mins Now I realise I could just do all my copies with the laptop but I still want to fix this problem Burn is at 7.1% on Desktop computer...started at 1:24 and the time is now 2:11 [recovering disk space -- ATTACHMENT deleted by admin]Try this. Go to Start --> Run --> msconfig and press Enter. Head over to the Startup Tab and uncheck as much as you can. (note: if you uncheck something like a program, you can still use it without having to check it again but don't uncheck antivirus software.) Restart the computer but don't do anything but burn the DVD. Any IMPROVEMENT?OK I canceled the burn and did what you asked, tried again...no effect still just as slow Could a faulty IDE cable be the culprit here? It could be. Is it possible you can try to burn something smaller? Are there any more burning modes available? A CD-R burned in under 10 mins (convert MP3 and burn) fast and easy... Tried Nero burning the DVD...same effect I forgot to mention during the school term that the dvd's burnt fine, e.g 15 mins got the whole projectHmmm.... It could be a problem with the burner, i'm not sure. Not the DVD itself, right?I hope not it is still under warranty it was bought around this time last year 2 year warranty So are there any thought on the fact that generally during burning (I noticed this with the CD-R that it flashes solidly on and off every second, but when burning the dvd is still flashes at the same time, but its like a strobe light when it's doing it BTW i found out it is a Lite-On LH-20A1P (I was close ) I'm thinking of doing a Hard drive test in Sandra to see if it is the HDD not supplying it fast enough I did some poking around in CXtDVD and came up with this...Report Log As you can see the first burns I did with it were straight PIO :S [recovering disk space -- attachment deleted by admin]Can you change the burning mode?Burn mode? I assume you mean back to PIO or something?To whatever What are there?uhm..under dev manager there's UDMA if available and PIO In ConvX there isnt any option but packet writing modes (SAO) Are all of the modes slow?

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Hi there

Here are my specs:
ASUS P4PE Motherboard
768MB DDR 266 RAM (3x 256MB 266)
Intel Celeron 2.5Ghz Cpu
4 Hdd's;
3x40 gb's at IDE 0 primary and slave and IDE 1 Primary
1x20Gb at onboard sata/ide controller
Lite-On DVD+/-R/RW 20x LH-0A1P (I think)

Anyway here is my problem:
lately I have had exremely slow dvd burns and I mean SLOW
I am using ConvertXtoDVD and yes its fully paid for no piracy issues!
As of lately I had to reinstall Windows XP due to the machine not letting me login fully and not going past the loading personal setings phase.
After this I have installed all chipset and gfx, sound DRIVERS ect...
after a few days I wanted to continue burning my school project onto DVD's and so REINSTALLED ConvX2DVD
suprise suprise the pre-converted files took almost 13 hours to burn! (4.16GB project)
During the burn I noticed it notes burning in PIO mode and so I took the STEPS to fix that, whice were to uninstall Intell Application Accelerator and uninstall primary and secondary IDE Channels and now the DVD drive sits ad UDMA 4 and the HDD's at UDMA5

I am retrying the burn and at this point it still takes 3 minutes to do .5% and by my calculations 1% is approx 6 mins so whole burn is about 6x100%=600 minutes = 10 hours!
I noted that this time it stated UDMA mode 4 in the log but still takes ages....

another thing to note is the light on the front of the burner doesn't flash at a constant rate like it used to but rather flashes at random every half secnd or so like rapid hunfire (sorry for description but best thing I could think of)

After this burn completes I will post the Log

Any ideas are appreciated!!

Kurtis Quote

Any ideas are appreciated!!

Ideas, eh?

It could be:
CD Driver Issues
Background Processes taking up all the CPU power
Bad file

CD Driver Issues
Make sure the driver is the most recent one. I would reinstall it.

Background Processes taking up all the CPU power
Anything seem like this in Task Manager (High Memory Usage or CPU %age)

Bad file
Converted file not converted properly or converted with problems.Well, solutions would be nice too

No drivers are installed for the DVD burner only windows standard and I did reinstall those.

Checked background processes...See atached

Bad file, just ported the VIDEO_TS Folder over to my work laptop (naughty I know)
and DVD burnt in under 15 mins

Now I realise I could just do all my copies with the laptop but I still want to fix this problem

Burn is at 7.1% on Desktop computer...started at 1:24 and the time is now 2:11

[recovering disk space -- ATTACHMENT deleted by admin]Try this.

Go to Start --> Run --> msconfig and press Enter.
Head over to the Startup Tab and uncheck as much as you can.
(note: if you uncheck something like a program, you can still use it without having to check it again but don't uncheck antivirus software.)

Restart the computer but don't do anything but burn the DVD.
Any IMPROVEMENT?OK I canceled the burn and did what you asked, tried again...no effect still just as slow

Could a faulty IDE cable be the culprit here?
It could be. Is it possible you can try to burn something smaller?

Are there any more burning modes available? A CD-R burned in under 10 mins (convert MP3 and burn) fast and easy...

Tried Nero burning the DVD...same effect

I forgot to mention during the school term that the dvd's burnt fine, e.g 15 mins got the whole projectHmmm.... It could be a problem with the burner, i'm not sure.

Not the DVD itself, right?I hope not it is still under warranty it was bought around this time last year 2 year warranty

So are there any thought on the fact that generally during burning (I noticed this with the CD-R that it flashes solidly on and off every second, but when burning the dvd is still flashes at the same time, but its like a strobe light when it's doing it

BTW i found out it is a Lite-On LH-20A1P (I was close )
I'm thinking of doing a Hard drive test in Sandra to see if it is the HDD not supplying it fast enough
I did some poking around in CXtDVD
and came up with this...Report Log
As you can see the first burns I did with it were straight PIO :S

[recovering disk space -- attachment deleted by admin]Can you change the burning mode?Burn mode? I assume you mean back to PIO or something?To whatever

What are there?uhm..under dev manager there's UDMA if available and PIO

In ConvX there isnt any option but packet writing modes (SAO)

Are all of the modes slow?

Solve : Extremely slow DVD burn :( 10+ hours?

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