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2/28/2005 6:29:02 PM EDT
It used to rip read discs at ~8x but it's recently slowed to just below 2x.  Any ideas why this might happen and/or how I could remedy it?

ETA:  While reading a disc, all other applications run quite slowly.  Task Manager shows the drive software requiring a larger amount of the processor resources than before.
2/28/2005 6:37:38 PM EDT
[#1]
Have you tried a cleaning disc in it?
2/28/2005 6:46:40 PM EDT
[#2]
No but it's less than six weeks old.
2/28/2005 7:55:55 PM EDT
[#3]
Go into Device Manager, go to the Secondary IDE Controller (which is likely where your DVD drive is plugged in), and make sure that it hasn't defaulted back to PIO Mode.  It should be some flavor of DMA.  Windows had a bug up through XP SP1 that often caused CD/DVD drives to drop back to PIO mode.  SP2 corrects this bug.

-Troy
2/28/2005 8:20:04 PM EDT
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Go into Device Manager, go to the Secondary IDE Controller (which is likely where your DVD drive is plugged in), and make sure that it hasn't defaulted back to PIO Mode.  It should be some flavor of DMA.  Windows had a bug up through XP SP1 that often caused CD/DVD drives to drop back to PIO mode.  SP2 corrects this bug.

-Troy


That would be my first guess.

BUT this can be a sign of pending drive failure.
2/28/2005 8:23:20 PM EDT
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I think that's what it was.  Device 0 on the Secondary IDE Controller was set to PIO but Device 1 was "DMA or Better".  Thanks for the help.

I'm running XP SP1.  I've tried to install SP2 but it always craps out part-way through.
2/28/2005 8:58:29 PM EDT
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BUT this can be a sign of pending drive failure.


Yes, it can.  I had a drive die on me recently that started kicking into PIO mode with increasing frequency, until it died.  Sent it in to Sony, and had a replacement in 5 days.  All good again.

-Troy
2/28/2005 9:49:38 PM EDT
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I think that's what it was.  Device 0 on the Secondary IDE Controller was set to PIO but Device 1 was "DMA or Better".  Thanks for the help.

I'm running XP SP1.  I've tried to install SP2 but it always craps out part-way through.


Try installing SP2 with the drive unhooked.

You have a problem somewhere SP2 installation should not keep failing. The only 2 instances where I could not get SP2 to install at all were caused by Trojans; I had to do clean install.
3/1/2005 6:19:15 AM EDT
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I think that's what it was.  Device 0 on the Secondary IDE Controller was set to PIO but Device 1 was "DMA or Better".  Thanks for the help.

I'm running XP SP1.  I've tried to install SP2 but it always craps out part-way through.


Try installing SP2 with the drive unhooked.

You have a problem somewhere SP2 installation should not keep failing. The only 2 instances where I could not get SP2 to install at all were caused by Trojans; I had to do clean install.


The first couple times I tried the SP2 install was before I had the DVD-RW drive.

This machine has Oracle 9i installed (my wife is pursuing her certification).  Would that cause any SP2 install issues?
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