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Varied speeds with decrypter and shrink....please help
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dj2012
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25. March 2007 @ 15:44 |
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I have a 933Mhz Pentium 3 with 256 Ram. Sometimes I would pop in a movie to back up with Shrink and it would read at about 5,000kb a sec. But this only happened about two or three times. Normally it would read at about 2,000kb/s. Strange.....then I came over here, to a friends computer. It is a 3ghz with about a gig of RAM. I would pop in a movie and it would rip it in about 15 minutes or so and at about 5 or 6,000kb/s. Now, and quite suddenly, it is even slower than my 933 computer. Is there anybody out there who has experienced this same issue. I sure would love to resolve this.....it's driving me crazy. Thank you. oh, also......when I use dvd dycrypter, I have the same issue.
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25. March 2007 @ 16:05 |
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I haven't experienced this myself, but if you're having speed issues with Shrink, the first thing I would do is clean my hdd. Defrag your hdd and either manually clear out temp files, or run a program that will do it. One that performs pretty well is CCleaner. Find it here: http://www.ccleaner.com
I would try this first and see if there is any difference. Shrink is notorious for not performing well on a fragmented hdd.
Another suggestion with your system specs is do not multi-task while running Shrink. That could also slow down the process. Hope any of this helps!
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25. March 2007 @ 16:07 |
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"When I look at the smiles on all the childrens faces, I just know theyre about to jab me with something."- Homer Simpson This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 25. March 2007 @ 16:08
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dj2012
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25. March 2007 @ 16:49 |
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Originally posted by FFsp42:
I haven't experienced this myself, but if you're having speed issues with Shrink, the first thing I would do is clean my hdd. Defrag your hdd and either manually clear out temp files, or run a program that will do it. One that performs pretty well is CCleaner. Find it here: http://www.ccleaner.com
I would try this first and see if there is any difference. Shrink is notorious for not performing well on a fragmented hdd.
Another suggestion with your system specs is do not multi-task while running Shrink. That could also slow down the process. Hope any of this helps!
You know, I considered that.....I'm gonna check out the next post first before I do all of that, but a great idea. Thank you.
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25. March 2007 @ 16:55 |
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Originally posted by 300bowler:
maybe ur DMA has went to PIO mode,
Here is a guide to check and to fix the DMA problem
http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/260038[/quote]
I check this out and you are right.....the only problem that I am having now is that I checked my settings and the transfer mode is "DMA if available" on both device one and two. The current transfer mode for device one is "Ultra DMA mode 2" and on device two the current transfer mode is PIO mode.......I don't feel as if I should uninstall the driver just based on the directions of the related thread. Not sure what to do now.....Thank you guys for helping me with this....it's driving me nuts
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dj2012
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25. March 2007 @ 17:23 |
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Quote:
Originally posted by 300bowler:
maybe ur DMA has went to PIO mode,
Here is a guide to check and to fix the DMA problem
http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/260038
I check this out and you are right.....the only problem that I am having now is that I checked my settings and the transfer mode is "DMA if available" on both device one and two. The current transfer mode for device one is "Ultra DMA mode 2" and on device two the current transfer mode is PIO mode.......I don't feel as if I should uninstall the driver just based on the directions of the related thread. Not sure what to do now.....Thank you guys for helping me with this....it's driving me nuts[/quote]
So I got a little impatient and went ahead and reinstalled the driver......it's working like a champ now....THANK YOU SOOOOOOOO MUCH!!!
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25. March 2007 @ 20:08 |
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no problem,
your welcome
"When I look at the smiles on all the childrens faces, I just know theyre about to jab me with something."- Homer Simpson
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26. March 2007 @ 00:16 |
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dj2012
For future reference uninstalling the channel the optical drive(s) are located on hurts nothing. Windows automatically picks the channel back up when you reboot. It's the most successful and quickest method I've seen to get a drive back into DMA.
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28. March 2007 @ 07:51 |
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So now I can't seem to keep my settings. I have uninstalled my driver at least 5 times and it just seems to keep going back to PIO mode. Not sure what to do at this point. Thanks.
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28. March 2007 @ 13:30 |
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If SATA, that isn't a problem. If IDE, it is. Troubleshooting the cause is sometimes difficult. Did you use the troubleshooting feature accessible through Device Manager?
Is this how you approached the DMA situation?
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Check in Device Manager to see if DMA or PIO is on. The Secondary channel usually has the optical drives and the hard drives are on the Primary. Double click the channel and look in Advanced Settings or right click the desired channel and select Properies and look under the Advanced Settings tab. Note current transfer mode. Transfer Mode: is the setting that's desired, not necessarily what the drive is in, that's the Current Transfer Mode. SATA doesn't use DMA.
#I is the Control Panel. Follow I, II, III. Hard drives on Primary Channel and optical drives on Secondary Channel. Uninstall and reboot to kick drives back into DMA on. After Reboot check to make sure DMA is on. If problems persist, check IDE cables, drives and mobo.
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29. March 2007 @ 05:30 |
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So now I can't seem to keep my settings. I have uninstalled my driver at least 5 times and it just seems to keep going back to PIO mode. Not sure what to do at this point.
The most frequent reason why a CD or DVD port/device falls back to PIO mode is because of a scratched or otherwise unreadable CD or DVD disk. If your drive is having difficulty reading the media, it will revert to the slower PIO mode to prevent errors during the process.
Another reason maybe a problem with your drive? I had the same issue with a Plextor drive, I noticed that it was set to operate in PIO mode so I reset it to have DMA enabled, all was ok until I used it to read a disk, it would revert to PIO mode. The drive eventually failed and needed to be replaced.
There are other reasons like:
-A not so rare hardware problem is a bad or too long IDE data cable. You need 80-way cables, not the older ones with only 40 wires. With poor cables the device may work, but Windows will probably step down to lower DMA speeds or even to PIO.
-Bad IDE channel on the motherboard.
NOTE: Here is a handy little app that can help you fix the problem assuming all is well with your hard ware.
http://www.michna.com/kb/tools/resetdma.vbs
-Despite any warnings click on the [Open] or [Execute] buttons as required to execute the file resetdma.vbs.
-If the program found any ATA channel to reset, reboot your computer and test all drives.
-If the problem is still not solved, set the offending channel to PIO manually, reboot your computer, set the channel back to DMA, and reboot again.
***Please note that this works only with the Windows drivers. If your device had its own manufacturer's drivers installed, this program cannot fix the problem and will not do anything to them. Instead it will report that no resettable DMA channels were found.
Cheers:)
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PacMan777
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29. March 2007 @ 09:04 |
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Did you know DVD Region + CSS Free has Enable DMA?
For what it's worth, I've had better success with uninstalling the channels. It's worked when selecting DMA wouldn't.
40 conductor cables are more a problem for signal bleedover than causing PIO as the drive mode. The 80 conductor has a ground separating each wire conducting a signal, preventing bleedover. Also 80 conductor is needed if the system is going to be set to CSL. I guess if the signal bleedover got bad enough, long enough it might cause a drive to revert to PIO. Luckily I've not run across that one yet. I've seen a lot of systems with 40 conductor cables and the DMA-PIO issue was never a problem, except for an occasional defective cable.
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