DVD burner not reading/writing properly

[m1ek]

hi, i have a Dynex DVD+R/RW writer 8x write speed and 40x CD-r speed

it has been reading properly and burning properly untill i tried to create a dvd movie and after that the dvd stopped working properly.

this has happened to me before, and i did get help here, and i fixed it but now the SAME problem came back.

the problem is, when im watching a dvd movie, the movie play is extremely choppy and it just wont read properly. and when i try to burn data or a movie, it cannot buffer correctly and it takes amazingly long to burn somthing. can someone please help me. thanks a lot.

btw, i have nero 6.

[confus-ed]

My best guess would be that some reading or writing isssue has made windows switch off DMA access to your drive, so open device manager, by right clicking my computer, & click the hardware tab. Then find 'ide/atapi controllers' , expand that, & then there may be a number of entries (usually 3, but sometimes two, or more rarely even one) is anything there saying its using 'PIO mode' ?

You are looking for something like this:- http://www.thg.ru/storage/20020410/images/lideprop.jpg

[NooNoo]

A big hammer confus-ed? Yep, that would fix most pio/dma issues permanently :p

m1ek - try this link (http://www.onthegosoft.com/dma_setting_nt.htm) to show you what confuse-ed means.

[confus-ed]

..to show you what confuse-ed means.

Hey I managed a picture, which is more explanation, than I sometimes manage :p, but that link is handy (I see your great googling skills are coming in handy again ! :)) & will be getting added to 'my sticky' :thumbs:

[confus-ed]

A big hammer confus-ed? .

Ahhhhhh .. I see now, having cleared my internet cache in the meantime & got the same 'you ain't nicking our picture image' :thumbs2: