[My burner seems to be capped at 2x]

Oh my god.

 

I played with bios PATA SATA settings

did a test with imgburn

and it burned at x8 it was a bit unstable for a sec left buffer dropped alot but it got back up!

 

 

I have no idea what i did

i will try a burn now and see what happens

if this works i will find out what i did and tell you about it

 

and i cant thank lightning and cornholio enough for helping so much

 

Edit:

Just burned 4482MB at x16 in 6 minutes!

 

And i found out what i did

I set the on chip sata mode to Combined and the PATA IDE Set to ch.1 master/slave

 

i dont know why i did it or what it means

but i do know it fixed my problem

 

i hope this helps someone with the same problem

[My burner seems to be capped at 2x]

I did build my pc myself but i guess i didnt change much in the bios except boot from hardisk and disabled onboard raid(just wondering if this might be causing the problem)

but i did go to the gigabyte site and found that the latest bios for my mobo is F6 which is what i have and i will configure things as you said

 

I did not find pxhelp20 on non-plug and play drivers

 

The reg file:

 

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E96A-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}]

"Class"="hdc"

@="IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers"

"Icon"="-9"

"Installer32"="SysSetup.Dll,HdcClassInstaller"

"TroubleShooter-0"="hcp://help/tshoot/tsdrive.htm"

 

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E96A-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}\0000]

"EnumPropPages32"="storprop.dll,IdePropPageProvider"

"InfPath"="mshdc.inf"

"InfSection"="atapi_Inst_primary"

"ProviderName"="Microsoft"

"DriverDateData"=hex:00,80,62,c5,c0,01,c1,01

"DriverDate"="7-1-2001"

"DriverVersion"="5.1.2600.2180"

"MatchingDeviceId"="primary_ide_channel"

"DriverDesc"="Primary IDE Channel"

"MasterDeviceType"=dword:00000001

"SlaveDeviceType"=dword:00000000

"SlaveDeviceDetectionTimeout"=dword:00000001

"MasterDeviceTimingMode"=dword:00010010

"MasterDeviceTimingModeAllowed"=dword:ffffffff

"MasterIdDataCheckSum"=dword:0002043c

"SlaveDeviceTimingMode"=dword:00000000

 

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E96A-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}\0001]

"MasterOnMask"=dword:00000080

"MasterOnConfigOffset"=dword:00000041

"SlaveOnMask"=dword:00000080

"SlaveOnConfigOffset"=dword:00000043

"InfPath"="ich6ide.inf"

"InfSection"="intelide"

"ProviderName"="Intel"

"DriverDateData"=hex:00,40,da,53,a7,f6,c4,01

"DriverDate"="1-10-2005"

"DriverVersion"="7.0.0.1011"

"MatchingDeviceId"="pci\\ven_8086&dev_2651&cc_0101"

"DriverDesc"="Intel® 82801FB Ultra ATA Storage Controllers - 2651"

 

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E96A-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}\0002]

"EnumPropPages32"="storprop.dll,IdePropPageProvider"

"InfPath"="mshdc.inf"

"InfSection"="atapi_Inst_secondary"

"ProviderName"="Microsoft"

"DriverDateData"=hex:00,80,62,c5,c0,01,c1,01

"DriverDate"="7-1-2001"

"DriverVersion"="5.1.2600.2180"

"MatchingDeviceId"="secondary_ide_channel"

"DriverDesc"="Secondary IDE Channel"

"MasterDeviceType"=dword:00000002

"SlaveDeviceType"=dword:00000002

"MasterDeviceTimingMode"=dword:00000410

"MasterDeviceTimingModeAllowed"=dword:ffffffff

"MasterIdDataCheckSum"=dword:00010d64

"SlaveDeviceTimingMode"=dword:00000410

"SlaveDeviceTimingModeAllowed"=dword:ffffffff

"SlaveIdDataCheckSum"=dword:0001bdcb

"SlaveDeviceDetectionTimeout"=dword:00000001

 

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E96A-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}\0003]

"MasterOnMask"=dword:00000080

"MasterOnConfigOffset"=dword:00000041

"SlaveOnMask"=dword:00000080

"SlaveOnConfigOffset"=dword:00000043

"InfPath"="mshdc.inf"

"InfSection"="intelide_Inst"

"ProviderName"="Microsoft"

"DriverDateData"=hex:00,80,62,c5,c0,01,c1,01

"DriverDate"="7-1-2001"

"DriverVersion"="5.1.2600.2180"

"MatchingDeviceId"="pci\\ven_8086&dev_266f"

[My burner seems to be capped at 2x]

Yes test mode on my main pc is also x2

 

my current PC is alot better than the P3 machine so i dont think it cant cope with it

 

what should i look for in the bios? i do not know what to configure there

 

Edit:

 

by filter driver discovery tool im hoping you meant the Filter Driver Load Order v1.0.005

 

i ran it and it shows 4 things

upper device filter: redbook

device object: PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-110D

lower class filter: pxhelp20

lower device filter: imapi

[My burner seems to be capped at 2x]

and i just tried connecting the burner to my old computer

its a P3 667GHZ with 128RAM

 

i ran a burn in test mode and the device buffer didnt go under 97%!

and the burn speed was x6 ( althought i set it at x8 - still a huge improvement going over x2)

 

that was untill the left buffer bar went down, i cause of the crappy computer

 

Then i reconnected it to my current PC with the same 80 wire cable i used on the P3 and i still have problems

 

Edit:

 

I just tried the read test

never went above x2.3

[My burner seems to be capped at 2x]

My burns ( i tried 3) were all successful

my problem is speed

 

There is nothing else on my cable

and i didnt try another one, but i will

 

is there another way to check read speed?

[My burner seems to be capped at 2x]

The windows device manager says the burner is running at ultra DMA 5

 

how can i test my read speed?

 

and my device buffer(right) is the crazy one while the left one titled 'buffer' is steady at 100%

 

sorry for being such a novice but i did not understand what it is you wanted me to describe

what is whacking the buffer right up?

[My burner seems to be capped at 2x]

My hdd is sata and i'm using 80wire cables

[My burner seems to be capped at 2x]

The cpu usage never got to 20%

 

and i dont know if i'm using 80wire cable

 

im using the ones that came with the motherboard

[My burner seems to be capped at 2x]

Yes i did

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Hi again holio

 

the drive is connected to the primary IDE as the master

 

i hope this willl help, it is the beginning of a burn in test mode

i dont have a full one cause i guess im too tired to wait 30 minutes for a burn

 

I 18:50:28 ImgBurn Version 1.0.0.0 started!

I 18:50:28 Microsoft Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600 : Service Pack 2)

I 18:50:28 Initialising SPTI...

I 18:50:28 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices...

I 18:50:28 Found 1 CD-RW, 1 DVD-ROM and 1 DVD?RW!

I 18:50:33 Operation Started!

I 18:50:33 Source File: C:\Program Files\iso.iso

I 18:50:33 Source File Sectors: 508,931 (MODE1/2048)

I 18:50:33 Source File Size: 1,042,290,688 bytes

I 18:50:33 Destination Device: [1:0:0] PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-110D 1.22 (J:) (ATA)

I 18:50:33 Destination Media Type: DVD-R (Disc ID: MCC 03RG20) (Speeds: 4x, 6x, 8x, 12x, 16x)

I 18:50:33 Destination Media Sectors: 2,297,888

I 18:50:33 Write Mode: DVD

I 18:50:33 Write Type: DAO

I 18:50:33 Write Speed: 16x

I 18:50:33 Link Size: Auto

I 18:50:33 Test Mode: Yes

I 18:50:33 BURN-Proof: Enabled

I 18:50:36 Filling Buffer...

I 18:50:37 Writing LeadIn...

I 18:50:51 Writing Image...

[My burner seems to be capped at 2x]

Well i have 19% total fragmentation so i will defrag and see what happens

 

and according to imgburn: Supported Write Speeds: 4x, 6x, 8x, 12x, 16x

[My burner seems to be capped at 2x]

I have a pioneer dvr-110 and my problem is that it seems to be capped at x2 no matter what i do

also the buffer is crazy, goes up and down by huge percentages constantly

 

I know this is not an imgburn problem(since it happens on nero too) but i dont know where else to ask

i tried other places but they did not know what might be causing this

 

a bit of info:

I have the latest firmware (1.22)

According to the imgburn & nero logs my DMA is on

I try burning with verbatim x16 and LG x8 and the problem is the same on both

All my burns are successful, just extremely slow at x2 and a crazy buffer( as mentioned above)

 

system specs:

P4 3.2GHZ

Gigabyte 8I915P Duo

1024MB RAM

 

I would really appreciate any ideas on what to try