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erinpgh

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19. August 2005 @ 16:03

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i looked at another thread but it doesnt seem like the same problem.

i just bought my computer 3 weeks ago. there isnt much installed on it. there is still a lot of memory left. we started backing up dvds and burning them about 2 weeks ago and they were going very fast. it would take about 40 minutes to do a deep analysis and backup total. then about 8 minutes to burn. we delete all the movies off the computer after backing them up. all of a sudden, its taking almost an hour for the deep analysis and another hour for the backup...and then over a half hour for the burning. what is happening? when we are deleting these movies, are they really deleting? i read somewhere that they could be stored in the registry somehow and taking up space. is this true? do i need some sort of registry cleaner? i checked the cpu usage...its about 29% for dvd shrink...and the rest for the system idle process.

OS Name Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2 Build 2600
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name DD0WR081
System Manufacturer Dell Inc.
System Model Dimension 9100
System Type X86-based PC
Processor x86 Family 15 Model 4 Stepping 3 GenuineIntel ~2992 Mhz
Processor x86 Family 15 Model 4 Stepping 3 GenuineIntel ~2992 Mhz
BIOS Version/Date Dell Inc. A01, 5/25/2005
SMBIOS Version 2.3
Windows Directory C:\WINDOWS
System Directory C:\WINDOWS\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume2
Locale United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "5.1.2600.2180 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158)"
User Name DD0WR081\Erin
Time Zone Eastern Standard Time
Total Physical Memory 1,024.00 MB
Available Physical Memory 511.68 MB
Total Virtual Memory 2.00 GB
Available Virtual Memory 1.96 GB
Page File Space 2.40 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys

this is under the system info if it helps.

i'm kind of concerned because the computer is brand new and i didnt know if there is an easy way to fix the problem. i've run disk cleanup and defragmented a few times and it didnt do anything to ease the problem.

thanks for any help. and i'm no computer whiz...

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StanH1000

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19. August 2005 @ 17:27

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Make sure burner and any other optical drives are operating in DMA mode, not Pio. Go to Device Manager, IDE controllers. You burner and other optical drive will be on either the primary, or more likely the secondary IDE channel. Right click all IDE channels and select properties, then advanced settings. Make sure both, or for that matter all drives on either channel, are set to DMA if available. If burner is indicating Pio, that's your problem. Once set to enable DMA, reboot and check the settings again to make sure all drives are now on DMA. If Pio turns up again. change setting to DMA if aavilable, the go back to Device Manager/IDE controllers and remove or disable that IDE controller (primary or secondary) containing the channel/drive that keeeps going back to Pio. Then reboot. Windows will find everything again as "new hardware", with the DMA settings enabled.

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erinpgh

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21. August 2005 @ 14:42

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thank you...i got it to work and it is moving quickly again!

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