super slow blu-ray drive

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Hi, i was wondering if you guys know why my blu-ray drive is acting so freaken slow? bought a new motherboard and ever since, installing windows takes forever. The initial load up hangs for 3-4 minutes, inch by inch installing. It wasnt this slow before.
Any idea if it could be a wrong sata cable? some setting in my bios?

motherboard is gigabyte gae45-udsr

 

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What drive? I have a Sony one that is the same way, it is really slow at CD's/DVD (reading about 1.7x according to my ripping program for audio CD's).

 

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how can i figure out what drive it is without ripping it out?

 

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Should be in device manager.

 

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says: hl-dt-st bddvdrw ggc-h20l

 

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Hey, look at that, same one I got. I'll wait to see if someone else knows what to do. In the meantime, I join you.

 

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Yeah I have also an old pioneer 111d ide drive that is also super slow in reading of from cd/dvd. I believe it's the drive is to blame.

 

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thideras said:

Hey, look at that, same one I got. I'll wait to see if someone else knows what to do. In the meantime, I join you.

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is there maybe a firmware update? have you found one?

 

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Vio1 said:

is there maybe a firmware update? have you found one?

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Didn't even think to look.

 

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Don't know if it's an issue with Bluray drives and SATA but I know an optical will be dirt slow if it's in PIO mode instead of DMA. Worth checking, at least.

edit: Here's what it looks like on my PATA optical. Make sure yours says DMA (whatever level) and not PIO.

 

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thideras said:

Didn't even think to look.

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Do you know the make of our drive? i dont want to take my pc apart to find out.

 

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ratbuddy said:

Don't know if it's an issue with Bluray drives and SATA but I know an optical will be dirt slow if it's in PIO mode instead of DMA. Worth checking, at least.

edit: Here's what it looks like on my PATA optical. Make sure yours says DMA (whatever level) and not PIO.

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mine looks like yours, and its still slow.

 

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It is an LG BluRay HDDVD combo drive

Model # ggc-h20l

Listed on newegg

 

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I have the same drive ill see if it seems slow and post back