Problem With Nero Under XP

[Richard]

Since updating to XP from ME, Nero 5.5 writes both
CD-R and CD-RW disks at a much slower speed.
The speed has been reduced about 80%.

I also use a the freeware version of DeepBurner and
it still creates CD at the same speed or maybe a bit
faster.

Does anyone know why this is occurring? I am using
the latest version of both programs.

Thank You,

Richard Troxel

 

[CS]

Since updating to XP from ME, Nero 5.5 writes both
CD-R and CD-RW disks at a much slower speed.
The speed has been reduced about 80%.

I also use a the freeware version of DeepBurner and
it still creates CD at the same speed or maybe a bit
faster.

Does anyone know why this is occurring? I am using
the latest version of both programs.

Richard:

Check to make sure your CDRW drive is using DMA. Many times when
upgrading from Win9X/ME to XP, DMA settings do not get carried over.

Go into Device Manager and right click on the IDE channel the drive is
hooked to. Select properties, advanced settings. Make sure DMA if
available is selected.

 

[Richard]

Richard:

Check to make sure your CDRW drive is using DMA. Many times when
upgrading from Win9X/ME to XP, DMA settings do not get carried over.

Go into Device Manager and right click on the IDE channel the drive is
hooked to. Select properties, advanced settings. Make sure DMA if
available is selected.

Okay I went to Control Panel then to System then Hardware Tab then Device
Manager. I select the CD Drive but cannot find the IDE channel setting.
Please give me more info.

Thanks
Richard

 

[CS]

Okay I went to Control Panel then to System then Hardware Tab then Device
Manager. I select the CD Drive but cannot find the IDE channel setting.
Please give me more info.

Thanks
Richard

Hi Richard:

You went to the right place but selected the wrong item. Note that I
said to select the IDE channel the drive is hooked to _NOT_ the drive
itself. For example: If your drive is set as master on IDE 2, you
would select IDE 2, right click, select properties, advanced settings,
and make sure DMA if available is selected.

Regards.

 

[Richard]

Hi Richard:

You went to the right place but selected the wrong item. Note that I
said to select the IDE channel the drive is hooked to _NOT_ the drive
itself. For example: If your drive is set as master on IDE 2, you
would select IDE 2, right click, select properties, advanced settings,
and make sure DMA if available is selected.

Regards.

Thanks CS I found it and the DMA is set on. Do you
have any other ideas. I checked to make sure that the Win
CD Writer is turned off and it is.

Richard

 

[davexnet01]

Okay I went to Control Panel then to System then Hardware Tab then Device
Manager. I select the CD Drive but cannot find the IDE channel setting.
Please give me more info.

Thanks
Richard

DMA status can be found in the device manager in the IDE controllers tab.
Go to the Nero site and download the latest in the 5.5 release.
Install it over itself - Nero updates are designed for this.
Dave

 

[Plato]

Since updating to XP from ME, Nero 5.5 writes both
CD-R and CD-RW disks at a much slower speed.
The speed has been reduced about 80%.

I like Nero a lot, but have had a similiar weird problem. One day I was
copying music cds for my daughter and set it to 8x to help get a good
quality copy. After that the speed arrow was greyed out and I couldn't
change it. I didn't try to fix anything nor re-install. Same thing in my
other couple of three burning apps. Yes, DMA was greyed out also so I
couldn't change it. Anyway, just the other week it went back to like
brand new right after I tried another burning app and I had 40x burn
speed again and DMA magically went back to normal ie checked.

 

[CS]

Thanks CS I found it and the DMA is set on. Do you
have any other ideas. I checked to make sure that the Win
CD Writer is turned off and it is.

Richard

The only other thing I can suggest is to go to the Nero website and
download the latest update to your version 5.X and install it over the
older version. You might want to completely remove Nero first before
installing the update.

Also make sure your CDRW is being correctly identified in Device
Manager as to speed and capability. Another thing comes to mind:
Go to the maker of the CDRW web site and see if they have a firmware
update for the drive. I recently updated the firmware on my DVDRW and
it made a world of difference when using Nero.