recurring (and annoying) burner issue, please help

[adorkable113]

Hey everyone,

I was wondering if someone could help me out, or explain to me what is happening with my burner. I have a HP Writer 740b and it's able to work wonders, I've been using DVD Shrink & Nero to burn dvds and it used to take 30-45 mins to rip AND burn.

BUT now, all of a sudden it's taking 2 hours to do the same thing, I dont know whats going on. This has happened before and I don't remember how I fixed it, I've tried uninstalling the drive, updating the firmware (which didn't do anything b/c it's all up to date) and so on...

I'll appreciate any feedback, thanks =)

[locoeng]

Check to see that DMA is enabled...here is a guide.

[NightTran]

check DMA ( use search function in the forum DMA) there are many posts about this

[adorkable113]

thanks for the super fast responses!

i'm sorry tho, because i forgot to mention that i did look up the DMA settings, and all are set to DMA (thats how i found this place, searchin google for answers, hah)

any other suggestions?

[NightTran]

post a burn log that was taking long that would help

[adorkable113]

actually i just realized that although everything is set to "DMA if available" including my primary IDE channel device 0, but what i didnt realize earlier is that the "current transfer mode" is PIO, how do i change this?

if i knew where to find my burn log, i'd post it =/

[Chewy]

http://winhlp.com/WxDMA.htm

quick solution works but read up while you are there

[adorkable113]

thanks a lot, i saved that link for future reference!

before i read this tho, i tried uninstalling the drive and it reset the settings =)

thanks again!

[locoeng]

Congratulations and happy burning.