A wierd burning behavior in my Optiarc NEC burner

[figaro14]

I've been having great luck with my new Optiarc DVD AD-7170A burner but suddenly its started to burn in a strange fashion.

It appears to be taking forever to burn disks and instead of a continual burn, its intermittently burning the disk as if its burning than momentarily pausing. I'm using the same high quality Verbatim DVD +R Disks and I didn't change any settings in Nero that I'm aware of. Any ideas what would be causing this?

[setarip_old]

Sounds like the burner has reverted from DMA mode to (MUCH slower) PIO mode. If so, this can be adjusted as follows:

In the Device Manager (via the Control Panel>>System>>Hardware>>Device Manager), you simply have to remove the applicable IDE channel (Click on "IDE...Controllers") and let your computer reset it to DMA as follows:
Right click on the pertinent channel in Device Manager
Click on uninstall
Reboot
After rebooting go back to Device Manager and change the setting to "DMA if available"...

[figaro14]

That was it! I was panacked thinking the burner was defective since I just got it a couple weeks ago. Your the greatest! Thanks a bunch for the help.

[setarip_old]

Your the greatest! Thanks a bunch for the help.As always, my pleasure ;>}