E1505 DVD issues

Hi, I have had my E1505 for a few weeks, and I've noticed a for about a week, My DVD Drive's read speed has droped a lot. It also seems to suck down system resources. DVDs play choppy and when copying files the computer seems slugish. When it is reading, one core is 50-80% and the other is 5-10%, when I adjust the vol. (so it dings) the sound is choppy.

I ran Media direct on startup and it plays DVDs fine, and it worked fine when I got it, so I know it's not the drive. There has to be some seting that got changed, any Ideas? It seems to be really quiet, I read somewhere that some drives have noise setings, does this one have it?

Any help would help greatly because I really don't want to reinstall right now.

-Kevin Krinn

 

are you saying the dvd drive speed has dropped AND is sucking down system resources or are these two different problems and you're not sure where the resource bottleneck is ?

EDIT: the drive performance vs. noise setting is in the BIOS

 

Yes it's both at the same time, And I don't know where the bottleneck is...
I'll have to check my BIOS and see if I accidently changed something, but wouldn't that effect Media-direct too, or does it use so little resources that it doesn't effect it?

 

check system properties/hardware/device manager/ide ata-atapi controllers/Secondary ide channel/Advanced Settings

under that dialog your dvd will be Device 0, and the Transfer mode will be
set to "PIO Only", change that to "DMA if available" and then restart.

Windows automatically falls back to PIO mode when there are read write errors on a drive in DMA mode. This means your drive may be faulty. Check for another few weeks and if it falls back to PIO, then call dell and explain the situation.

Of course I am assuming this to be your problem

 

It's already set to DMA, thats what I thought at first too

 

just checked the BIOS, nothing there helped the problem

 

Fixed it, uninstalled and reinstalled Sec IDE controler, workes fine now.
stupid windows