Aspire 1652WLMi.- Recorder terribly slow. Help!

Hello

I have a problem with a new Aspire 1652WLMi. The recorder is terribly slow. It can take up to 75 minutes!!! to burn a DVD.
With CD's all is OK. I have benchmarked the HD and I have velocity for burning dvd's at 20x. DMA is on. I have used 3 different burning software....

It is not the first time I see this. I have two friends that returned this model (and got another model) because of this problem.

Is there a reason for this? Is there a solution?

[Another thing: the speakers sounds horrible. In my 1652 and in my friend's returned ones. I don't understand, because in the review of the 1691, in this web, it is said that the speakers sound were incredibly good. And they are very similar models... even the chassis seems to be the same...]

 

Nobody with this Aspire? Nobody with this problem?
Help please!

 

Try unistalling your secondary ide channel if you feel comfortable. Windows should find it when you re-boot and install the driver. Try some different discs as well.

 

There is only primary ide channel...

 

i have the 3613wlmi and i have the same problem
slow dvd burn

it works only if i burn at 2x (it take 25 minutes to burn),
if i try higher speed, the device buffer go down and the speed go to 0.6x 0.7x !!! (it takes hours or more!!!)

it does that also in "test mode" (it is because i do not think it was a burner problem) i suppose a problem on ata i/o, but no setting on the bios for that

Still searching!

i test 3 differents computers (2 with a sosw-833w and on with gwa-4082n) all aspire 3613wlmi !!!
all with the same problem

 

Yes, I seem to have the same problem. I tried to burn some DVD footage off my DV cam and it was terribly slow. The footage was about 20 mins and it nearly took that long to burn the VOB files to DVD. The other thing is that I have used 2 different bits of software to burn as both seem to crash in the middle of burning. i have reduced this by letting the software on Nero calculate the speed. Is my DVD combo drive faulty or is there any driver/firmware updates you can get for it?

 

Do u have the latest firmware installed for your optical drive? If not time to do it, Get the modem no. and manufacturer of your drive from Device Manager or Nero Info Tool and install the latest firmware available from http://cdrinfo.com/Sections/Firmware/Home.aspx

 

On my Acer 1691 it seems to be a Lite On SLW 831S, but I can't seem to find any firmware for it online. Has anybody managed to find it or had any problems with it?

 

I think this problem is due to Acer only shipping their laptops with one IDE channel, so both the recorder and hard drive are sharing the primary channel. On a desktop you should always setup your burner on a secondary channel. I had the same problem on my 3613wlmi, even after i flashed a new firmware, and CD burning is pretty slow on this new 1652zwlmi. All i can suggest is get yourself some decent DVDR media and hope you can get up to 2x writing.

 

Is there any way around this? Would more RAM help? I have 512 at the moment, but could make it 1gb. Are Acer aware of this problem?

 

512MB is more than enough to burn discs. The first place to look when having burning issues is the discs.

 

Can anybody recommend a brand of DVD which works well with the DVD drive?

 

There is no chance to fix this and yes, Acer is aware - they designed the notebook that way... The problem is well known, I've read about it for last couple of months.