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    Transfer of video astoundingly slow to dvd

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by J23, Feb 9, 2010.

  1. J23

    J23 Notebook Geek

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    With the beta & RC I was getting transfer speeds burning avi, h.264 etc up to 10mbps. Thinking I had a bad spindle of discs I was just now trying my second back up of some films and what not. Same difference.
    I am getting 668 kps max. A transfer of 3.0 GB takes about 4 hours!

    Anyone had this issue?
    Regrads,
    J23
     
    J23, Feb 9, 2010
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    06voy Notebook Guru

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    I tried to copy files from my Dvd drive off of a cd and was only able to transfer files at about 5 to 600 kb/s. I tried to talk to dell about this issue but got no where. I think this also has to do with my slow boot. Does your system hang when booting? I would really like to figure out this problem.
     
    06voy, Feb 9, 2010
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    How long is your boot time? Also is your burn time markedly differant than your rip speed? I have a theory. Let meknow.
    Later,
    J23
     
    J23, Feb 10, 2010
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    I have not tried to burn anything yet. My boot time takes about 2 or 3 min to get to the desktop. If I boot in safe mode it hangs on classpnp.sys. I would love to know what your thoughts on this are. Im thinking the dvd drive is causing this issue.
     
    06voy, Feb 11, 2010
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    Yes I have the regular CD-RW/DVD drive. No Bluray.
     
    06voy, Feb 11, 2010
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    2-3 mins? Wow that is not right. I presume you have updated all the drivers ( be they from Dell or Intel) In particular latest chipset & dvd/cd driver.

    Do you have an OEM of Windows 7 or did you purchase 7 on it's own. If the ladder I would recommend you try a clean install. If the former was the laptop like this from when you first used it? It's possible you have a SW conflict with another program.

    Let me know...
    J
     
    J23, Feb 16, 2010
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    I had this issue and dell replaced the hard drive so I did a fresh install with a Purchased windows 7 disk. The issue came back almost immediately. I cant find a driver for the cd drive i can only find the firmware on dells website. Are you still having this issue?
     
    06voy, Feb 16, 2010
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