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by phil 1 view

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I just installed a DVD Recorder into my computer and when the computer boots; it takes a good few minutes to get all the way into windows. Even then everything just drags. The burner is the only device on the cable; and is set to master. It is detected in the bios properly and there are plenty of system resources. Any ideas???
I am using XP

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by willcomp

Phil,

Have you ensured that the DVD RW drive is the problem? Disconnect drive and see what happens. If bootup is still slow, then problem is not drive.

Check cable on DVD-RW drive. Verify that it is seated well on both ends. I recommend using an ATA 100 or ATA 133 80 conductor cable for all RW optical drives.

Dalton

by g.brown

Just as a test, try setting it as the slave and using it on the same cable as your HDD.

The master should go at the end and the slave in the middle.

http://www.mikeshardware.com/howtos/howto_connect_ide_hd.html

If this works OK then there could be a problem with the cable you were using...possibly even the secondary IDE channel.

If it is still slow, do you have another machine you can test the DVD drive in, or do you have another DVD drive you can use to test in this machine??

by g.brown

Wrong way round ... "try setting it as the slave and using it on the same cable as your HDD" should be "try setting the HDD as the slave and using it on the same cable as your HDD"

by rcom

Instead of the drive the burning software may be the actual problem. The loading of the driver(engine)might hang durring bootup.

Check the windows log files to find possibly what's slowing the bot up.

Check for fixes and updates from the OEM site. If it came with Roxio or Pennacle there's a lot of issues associated with both and there's patches to fix a lot of these. Nero has patches too. If using Windows XP its best to check for compatibility before doing SP2 update.

Also if you had a previous burner software installed its important that you uninstall that before trying the other.

While searching for downloads you my find a uninstaller that will get rid of all the registry entries that don't go away durring normal removal. These entries often cause problems for the new program.

by petevfi

Hi!

I have been facing the same type of problem installing a 2nd DVD-RW or CD-RW in addition to a CD-R unit on my machine, the boot-up time increased from some 10 seconds to 1 minute or so.

After several different drive/position/cable/channel etc. combination trials I came to the conclusion, that it's the BIOS, which do need the extra time to identify the RW drives. The BIOS is on it's latest possible update level, so it's not just an update issue, the next update might have some effect on this. I haven't yet been going on more in deep with the investigation, just satisfying with the behaviour.

Best regards,

Pete V.

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