Optical drive slow down

[Guest]

Hi,

I've just upgraded my PC but now when i try to view dvd's the movie will
slow down and i'll get like 1/2 speed (slow motion) including slow sound
(with lots of clicking). This never happened on my older - inferior pc even
though i'm still using the same dvd-rw drive.

This problem also extends outside of playing media. Whenever i put a disc in
the drive with a large file e.g. >1Gb and say try to copy it to the hard
drive everything slows down. I'll get the same slow motion sound and
crackling when e.g. windows diplays a dialogue box and makes that "ding"
noise. The "ding" will reverberate in slow motion combined with crackling
background noise.

Also, general OS and program responsivness slows down dramatically (e.g.
trying to open up outlook express to type this problem). The problem ceases
as soon as any copying is complete or no large media files are being played
off a disc. This is incrediably annoying considering I could do all those
things previously before upgrading; and play games all simultaniously and
suffer little performance degradation.

Also, one of the programs i ran came up with a message saying DMA (Direct
Memory access) was disabled on my drive and needed to be enabled or my cpu
would be put under huge processing load thus slowing things down. This, i
thought, was the solution to my problem. The program proceed to activate DMA
and reboot my PC. However the problem persists.

My new specs are dual core 6600, 2gig ram ddr2 and xfx nvidia 7900gt on a
ga965-ds3 motherboard.

You'd think that kind of grunt could play a measly dvd movie..considering my
old system of p4 3ghz, 1gig ram ddr1 and gigabyte 6600gt on a ga-8knxp rev2
motherboard could. Oh and i almost forgot - i upgraded my hard drive from a
120gig sata1 to 250gig sata2.

I'm stumped, the only thing i can think of is maybe the 50gig partition
(that i haven't even filled half of) that windows and other programs sits on
somehow isn't large enough for a what usually is a 2gig page file. Unless its
my graphics card - which makes even less sense than my previous sentance.
Hmm, maybe i should have gotten that gigabyte gpu instead of some unkown
brand like xfx *scratches head*. This problem occurs even when my cpu is only
at 50% usage.

Any help on this matter would be greatly appreciated.

note: this problem doesn't occur if i run these files from the hard drive
rather than my dvd-rw. which of course is not something i can legally do with
commercial dvd's.

 

[sdlomi2]

Hi,

I've just upgraded my PC but now when i try to view dvd's the movie will
slow down and i'll get like 1/2 speed (slow motion) including slow sound
(with lots of clicking). This never happened on my older - inferior pc
even
though i'm still using the same dvd-rw drive.

This problem also extends outside of playing media. Whenever i put a disc
in
the drive with a large file e.g. >1Gb and say try to copy it to the hard
drive everything slows down. I'll get the same slow motion sound and
crackling when e.g. windows diplays a dialogue box and makes that "ding"
noise. The "ding" will reverberate in slow motion combined with crackling
background noise.

Also, general OS and program responsivness slows down dramatically (e.g.
trying to open up outlook express to type this problem). The problem
ceases
as soon as any copying is complete or no large media files are being
played
off a disc. This is incrediably annoying considering I could do all those
things previously before upgrading; and play games all simultaniously and
suffer little performance degradation.

Also, one of the programs i ran came up with a message saying DMA (Direct
Memory access) was disabled on my drive and needed to be enabled or my cpu
would be put under huge processing load thus slowing things down. This, i
thought, was the solution to my problem. The program proceed to activate
DMA
and reboot my PC. However the problem persists.

My new specs are dual core 6600, 2gig ram ddr2 and xfx nvidia 7900gt on a
ga965-ds3 motherboard.

You'd think that kind of grunt could play a measly dvd movie..considering
my
old system of p4 3ghz, 1gig ram ddr1 and gigabyte 6600gt on a ga-8knxp
rev2
motherboard could. Oh and i almost forgot - i upgraded my hard drive from
a
120gig sata1 to 250gig sata2.

I'm stumped, the only thing i can think of is maybe the 50gig partition
(that i haven't even filled half of) that windows and other programs sits
on
somehow isn't large enough for a what usually is a 2gig page file. Unless
its
my graphics card - which makes even less sense than my previous sentance.
Hmm, maybe i should have gotten that gigabyte gpu instead of some unkown
brand like xfx *scratches head*. This problem occurs even when my cpu is
only
at 50% usage.

Any help on this matter would be greatly appreciated.

note: this problem doesn't occur if i run these files from the hard drive
rather than my dvd-rw. which of course is not something i can legally do
with
commercial dvd's.

I'm assuming you are using WinXP? If so, have you uninstalled your
dvd-drive, rebooted, and allowed XP to 'find new hardware' and self-install
the drive? What upgrades did you do--from what to what? s

 

[Gnome]

Upart from the upgrades mentioned in my previous post - none. And yes, i am
using XP. Aslo, i found out that this problem doesn't occur in diagnostis
startup via msconfig. My guess is is that its a process. The only thing I
could think of in terms of software that may be interfering is pc-cillin
internet security 2007.

 

[sdlomi2]

Sounds like you still don't have dma enabled. Go into Device Driver and
look under Advanced tab for Ide controllers, check Properties for both
Primary and Secondary Ide Channels, and ensure you're not in PIO mode--if
so, change options in both to "Enable DMA If Available": two settings for
each of Pri. and Sec., four Enables in all. HTH, s