Vista System Slow-Down When Burning with ImgBrun

[ultravista]

I am working on a freshly installed (1 week) Vista Ultimate quad core machine with 4GB of RAM. The DVD drive is SATA.

 

When burning an image with ImgBurn, my machine slows down and becomes non-responsive at times. Memory and CPU utilization are normal, nothing appears to be out of the ordinary.

 

At times and especially when the image first starts to record, the machine becomes non-responsive for nearly 30 seconds. As it progresses, the machine responds, but will slow down or freeze up again.

 

Any ideas?

Edited May 28, 2009 by ultravista

[mmalves]

Can you post a log from a burn where that happens? Look in ImgBurn's Help menu

[ultravista]

To clarify, the image was burning at 4x

 

; //****************************************\\

; ImgBurn Version 2.4.4.0 - Log

; Wednesday, 27 May 2009, 19:14:31

; \\****************************************//

;

;

I 18:52:32 ImgBurn Version 2.4.4.0 started!

I 18:52:32 Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate Edition (6.0, Build 6001 : Service Pack 1)

I 18:52:32 Total Physical Memory: 3,405,196 KB - Available: 2,263,860 KB

I 18:52:32 Initialising SPTI...

I 18:52:32 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices...

I 18:52:32 Found 1 DVD

[mmalves]

Follow this post from the FAQ completely (deleting controllers/rebooting/etc) and your problem should go away.

[ultravista]

Follow this post from the FAQ completely (deleting controllers/rebooting/etc) and your problem should go away.

 

May I ask what causes the problems? What is the root cause of the issue?

[mmalves]

I'm not sure what causes it but it's so common to happen that it's the 2nd post of the Frequently Asked Questions thread

[spinningwheel]

PIO, which is what your system switched to, and also what slowed down your burning, is a safety feature built into Windo$e. When your drive encounters too many errors, either read or write, the subsystem slows down and locks the drive into PIO to avoid drive damage. The only way to reset it is to follow the FAQ and reboot the machine.

[jeff_nz]

To clarify, the image was burning at 4x

Not according to the log...

I 19:02:38 Average Write Rate: 1,385 KB/s (8.0x) - Maximum Write Rate: 1,410 KB/s (8.2x)

 

If you set the burn speed to 4x the drive is going to ignore it, because it's not supported, and will automatically choose the closest speed it does support.

I 18:52:59 Destination Media Type: CD-R (Disc ID: 97m15s17f) (Speeds: 8x, 16x, 24x, 32x, 40x, 48x)

 

Hey guys, so the PIO/DMA issue can apply to SATA drives too? I must admit I know nothing about SATA optical drives, never had one, so just curious but I assume from what you say it must?

[mmalves]

Hey guys, so the PIO/DMA issue can apply to SATA drives too? I must admit I know nothing about SATA optical drives, never had one, so just curious but I assume from what you say it must?

Most people use their SATA controllers in IDE compatibility mode, which effectively makes the controller behave as an IDE controller and, as such, be prone to these errors

[jeff_nz]

Thanks mmalves.