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CAn anyone help me with this. I have been following others who have had this problem. I have a P$ 3.4 gig.512RAM,5900 256MB vid card,40GIG HD. So my 16X DVD burner will only burn at 1X with every burning program. I updated the firmware, still the same result. I read on how others change the drive from PIO to DMA mode. Well my drive allows for both and there is no way to turn off the PIO, so I tried selecting the PIO on mode 0-4 and still the drive remains in PIO mode. CAn anyone tell me how to succesfully change it to DMA mode. I contacted Sony and they sent me this email.
First, Change the main controller you have to a Standard Dual Channel
Controller
- Open the Device Manager(open up the Start menu, right click on My
Computer, left click on Properties, click on the button labeled Device
Manager under the Hardware tab
- Click on the + next to IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers
- A Primary IDE channel, Secondary IDE channel, and a PCI Controller
(sometimes an Intel or SIS or VIA) will be listed
- Double click on the controller, click on the Driver tab, then click
on the
Update Driver button
- This will open up the Hardware Update Wizard, if it asks if Windows
can
search select No, and click Next
- Then choose "Install from a List or Specific Location," and click
Next
- Select "Don't Search, I will Choose a Driver to Install" and click
Next
- Under "Model" select the Standard Dual Channel controller and click
Next
- From here it should allow you to click "Finish"
At that point a window will appear with Standard Dual Channel printed
at the
top. Close this, but do not restart your system if it prompts you to
Second, you need to double click on the Secondary IDE Channel, click on
the
Advanced Settings tab, then change the Transfer Mode for Device 0 from
DMA
to PIO. Then click OK
Close the Device Manager along with any other windows that happen to be
open. Then open up My Computer, right click on the Sony drive and left
click
on Properties.
If a Recording tab does not appear, go to Control Panel/Add-Remove
Programs
and remove all of your Roxio or EZ CD Creator software. Log onto
www.roxio.com and download and run their registry cleaning tool. In the
Recording tab under Properties make sure that there is no X in the box
next
to "Enable CD Recording on this Drive." If there is, you need to remove
it.
Click "Apply" then "Okay." Close the Device Manager.
From here you will want to reboot your system to let those changes take
place. The drive should be working at its peak after these changes.
However I have no result in keeping the drive in DMA mode. and I am almost possible this is the reason. Since I can throw the drive in my P3 1GIG with those original firware and nothing else tweaked or updated and it will burn at 16X.
Someone plz help. thanks
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