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    Slow CD Drive

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by codeoverride, Sep 1, 2007.

  1. codeoverride

    codeoverride Notebook Evangelist

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    The CD Drive on my inspiron 1520 seems really slow.. I have been installing programs and it takes forever. I also just copied a 320MB file from a CD and it took 13 minutes. Has anyone else experienced this? I am using "high performance" battery mode.
     
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  2. John Ratsey

    John Ratsey Moderately inquisitive Super Moderator

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    Check if the ATA/ ATAPI interface has dropped into PIO mode. This will make the whole computer feel slow.

    More details at Microsoft.

    John
     
    John Ratsey, Sep 1, 2007
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