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system slows during optical drive access

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joormotha

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My new rig has been great except for DVD drive related activity. Any time I copy files from the drive, burn disks, or rip DVD’s, the system responsiveness takes a big hit. Just to give you an idea, it took 3 hours to rip and burn a movie in DVD shrink. On my old rig (AMD 64 3000) it would only take an hour. I tried using my old drives (Seagate 250 GB sata + new DVD burner) and got the same results.

Symptoms: The mouse slows, programs take a long time to launch, switching between apps takes long.

Specs:
E6400
GIGABYTE GA-965G-DS3
GIGABYTE GeForce 7600GS 256MB
Kingston HyperX 1GB DDR2 800
ASUS 16X DVD±R DVD
Western Digital Caviar SE WD2500JS

The DVD drive is set as master and is the only device on the ide cable.

Any idea what this may be?
 
to me sounds like a software issue. What processes show in the task bar during this and at what percentages.

me personally when i burn a disk i walk away and let it do its thing and its usually done in under 30 minutes.
 
I use nero 6 with DVD shrink. The CPU does not rise much in terms of activity, yet the system behaves as if it had no resources left. We're talking no more than 10-15% cpu. The system slows down even when I do a windows file copy from the DVD drive to HD.
 
BillParrish said:
go into properties of the Ide controller that drive is on and make sure DMA mode is on, I cant remember the details, this was a common problem when the board first came out. Update the bios and drivers if you have not already done so.

hmm
http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=714042
Click to expand...

I read something about the DMA mode, but didn't see anything in the driver properties. I'll try loading newer drivers.
 
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