Problem with writing DVDs.

[mattstan]

Hi,

 

This may not be an ImgBurn problem, but I'm hoping you gurus can help even if it's not.

 

I've been using a Samsung SH-S203 SATA Dual Layer DVD Writer to write DVDs (Taiyo Yuden) with my 4 month old PC and never had any problems. I've used ImgBurn exclusively as the burning software.

 

In the last few days I've tried to burn 3 DVDs with ImgBurn, instead of writing at 8x it's been writing at 2x, even though 8x was set. Instead of taking about 8 mins it takes about 30 mins. There's no change of drive, speed settings, verify disk is off (as uaual), and the disks I use have not changed.

 

The only thing that may have caused this is that a few days ago I hit eject for the DVD drive when the door to the PC case was closed (that's a door that covers the whole front of the PC's case) - oops - through the air-flow gap in the side of the door I saw the DVD drive come out partially, hit the door, automatically retreat back, and then try again - the same thing happening before I got the door open. I don't see why this would now cause my burning problems; if a cable had come off or loose surely that would cause an inability or read and write - rather than just write slowly as is the case. Reading works as normal as far as I can tell.

 

Anyone got any ideas what I should do to resolve this problem?

 

Thanks.

 

PS. Win XP2 SP2 - no recent changes to OS.

Edited June 12, 2008 by mattstan

[LIGHTNING UK!]

Follow the DMA post in the FAQ and uninstall your IDE controller entries + reboot.

[mattstan]

Okay I'll give it a go. Thanks for the advise and pointer.

[mattstan]

Thanks again LIGHTNING UK!.

 

That was indeed the problem - all sorted and working AOK.