Dvd R/w Performance Drop

[fauxpas]

I have been using Princo 4x -R for ages and instead of burning in 15min it now takes 30+min...

Nero still says "Burning at 4x" but the Buffer goes up and down like a b i t c h...

Also, DVD Shrink takes a lot longer, typically twice as long...

Because DVD Shrinking and burning both take longer, I am assuming it would not be a NERO problem or a Princo Media problem...

If I can't rectify this soon I'll reformat and re-install windows...

Help anyone?

http://users.bigpond.net.au/faux/nero01.jpg

This lower buffer level goes up to 90s and down to 20s in 1 second so goes up and down 50-60 times a minute

http://users.bigpond.net.au/faux/nero02.jpg

28min and it wasn't even a full disc

:(

[coogle]

Try a scandisk and a defrag on the drive you copying from, may be full of junk and the access times slow down to it.

Also, any other programs running using cpu/memory, cause the buffer might be struggling for room.

Also, see how much room you have left on c:, if your swap files don't have enough room to play they get shirty.

my 2 cents, assuming nothing else has changed on your rig.

[Dezza Bot]

everything that coolge has said,
and clean the drive (with a proper cd drive cleaner)

[fauxpas]

It's only a 3 month install of WinXP and has no junk apps...

It only leeches via DC++ and when capped doen't leech at all...

Only other apps are icq/msn

My system drive and downloads drive have heaps of spare space 10gig and 30gig respectively...

[MaJ]

Faux I had a similar issue.

And as Ripleys would say, "Real? Believe it!"

I took it to work & i didnt believe it, but it was actually my PSU.

Mine burns like a champ again & has been for months now.

[fauxpas]

I'll unplug a drive and see if that works...

Yes I believe you as I have had recent problems with my old gamer that kept sucking too much juice...

Monumental system problems...

:D

[fauxpas]

Strange thing is though, I am running an MX420 card now but was running an FX5200Ultra that needed extra molex before...

So in theory, my system components are sucking less than before...

[fauxpas]

With FX5200 ultra which needed extra molex power and 1x80gig + 1x160gig + CD-ROM + DVD R/W the shrinking/burning was great...

Then out of the blue all the DVD stuff slows as above...

Since the power may have been an issue, I am back to the original mx420 card, unplugged the 160gig and CD-ROM and it's exactly the same, slooooow

So I reinstalled WinXP and she's back to tip-top...

Don't know of any software I put on it around the time of it slowing up, other than all those windows updates...