I have had my 530a for a month or so, and I have never had a problem making backups or ripping DVD's using Shrink and Nero. But all of a sudden it takes almost 2 hours to rip a DVD and almost 30 minutes to burn. (It used to take 30 min and 10 min, respectively) Why would this slow down so much. When I installed the drive I did the Firmware upgrade, and DMA is enabled. I just don't get whats wrong. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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Thanks for the reply. I have Nero 6 and as I wrote earlier my DVD drive was burning and ripping at much faster rates. If my ASPI wasn't up to date wouldn't I have not got good rates in the first place? Im just puzzeled as to why my drive would get slower only having purchased it a month ago.
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As to the slow-down in ripping, I don't think you can blame the hardware- apparently something's up with your system/software. I'd suggest doing an online anti-virus scan at http://www.pandasoftware.com , check for spyware using Ad-Aware & Spybot Search and Destroy. Refresh your native windows system files by typing CMD in the RUN box, the type: sfc /scannow ; you may be prompted to insert your XP disk- is using 98, type SFC.
As to the slowdown in burning, try disabling dma; I've had many burners over the yrs. (but just got my first DVD burner, same model as yours just 2 months ago), and pretty much run into every problem imaginable. Alternatively to disabling dma, in your BIOS, simply set it to "auto". Hope this was of some help.
