40x CD-RW only writing at 16x

petteyg359 · Feb 19, 2005

I've tried burning CDs with Nero, Alcohol 120%, and Windows XP, and all of them say the drives maximum speed is 16x, and only give me options to write to a 52x CD-R at 8x or 16x. I used to be able to burn at full 40x on these same CD-R discs, but that was about 10 re-installs of XP ago :bang head

. Any ideas on how to fix this?

orion456 · Feb 21, 2005

petteyg359 said:
I've tried burning CDs with Nero, Alcohol 120%, and Windows XP, and all of them say the drives maximum speed is 16x, and only give me options to write to a 52x CD-R at 8x or 16x. I used to be able to burn at full 40x on these same CD-R discs, but that was about 10 re-installs of XP ago . Any ideas on how to fix this?

I'd delete the driver and reinstall it.

schnikies79 · Feb 21, 2005

Remove the drive from device manager and reboot. Try reinstalling the chipset drivers too..

Dayton

petteyg359 · Feb 21, 2005

Already have the newest nForce "Unified Platform Drivers" (5.10) installed. I'll try removing the drive from device manager...

JerMe · Feb 21, 2005

uninstall nForce IDE drivers. I'm not sure it has problems on your board, but the nForce IDE drivers conflicted with the DFI NF2 boards. HTH.

petteyg359 · Feb 21, 2005

*whisper* JerMe, look at my sig... I've got a nForce 2 Ultra 400 mobo *stop whisper* Considering I have an nForce mobo, I'd bet the nForce drivers aren't causing the problem...

JerMe · Feb 21, 2005

lol I know you have an NF2 board. I'm saying the nForce drivers may be at fault for your CD speed. Have you tried going back to the native windows IDE drivers?

petteyg359 · Feb 21, 2005

Oops. My retarded brain saw DFI and read right over the rest. Totally ignored the NF2 part. :banghead: I'll mess around some more tomorrow. I haven't tried removing from device manager yet, been too busy playing Uplink and UT2K4... Must sleep now, I have school in 9 hours.

JerMe · Feb 21, 2005

Heheh. Well you're having a CD speed issue, might as well give the IDE drivers a shot. Here's what I pulled from the DFI Forums about the issue I mentioned:

http://www.dfi-street.com/forum/showpost.php?p=152&postcount=11

NOTE: NF2 OWNERS - IF YOUR SYSTEM FREEZES UP AFTER INSTALLING THE SW-IDE DRIVER IN THE NF2 CHIPSET PACKAGE, PLEASE UNINSTALL THE CHIPSET DRIVERS AND RE-INSTALL AND TELL THE SW-IDE DRIVER PROMPT TO "NO" AND DO NOT INSTALL THEM!!! SW-IDE DRIVER IS WELL KNOWN FOR HOSING/LOCKING/FREEZING/NO-BOOTING ETC AFTER INSTALLING!!!

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