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
I actually did not read through all of the B.S that Sony e-mailed to you, but go into Device Manager, and delete your burner, reboot, and see if the problem is fixed.
