Laptop crawls while copying anything from DVD

I have HP Dv9700t, T7500/4GB 800MHz Ram/120 GB X 2 Dual 7200 rpm HDD.

Whenever I copy anything from DVD to any of of HDD, computer almost cries. Sound goes weird..means I cant play any song/video/youtube video for an example... the sound is totally weird.

It has nthing to do with performance I am sure. I used to copy stuff frm DVD while high end gaming (without fps drop) ..play songs or run CAD.. or multitaskin....never had any issues.

But with this new laptop..argh...I cant even run winamp while copying smthing. While I type this something is being copied and my letters are appearing on screen with a lag.

I suspect the problem has smthing to do with dual HDD
or
the windows XP version I installed (windows XP pro 2008 modded by DareckiBMW... which gives Vista appearance).

Any suggestion? or re-formatting with normal XP would solve the problem?

 

It seems like you have driver issues.
Go to device manager, and see if anything has an X going through it. It sounds like your chipset driver an your usb drivers are not installed properly.

If reinstalling the drivers does not work, you can always reinstall the operating system, but it takes some time to do.

Is your cpu usage very high when copying files?

Copying files should not use more than about 40% cpu power.
The speed of copying files from a dvd are related to the speed of the optical drive, either internal or external. If its an external optical drive, than it could also be the usb drivers.

Do you notice any lag when playing music cd's?

You may want to clean the lens on the optical drive, to ensure that its reading the files efficienty. A dirty lens will slow the process down.
To clean, use a little rubbing alcohol on a q-tip, and lightly swirl around the lens, until its clean.

K-TRON

 

make sure the drive interface is not running in PIO mode, check under the hard disk controllers.

 

PIO mode is almost certainly it. Basically, there are two modes that XP can use for HDD's and DVD's - fast and slow. PIO is slow, and XP starts using it for a drive once there are six errors of a certain very important type on it. Unfortunately for DVD's, a single disc with many errors can trigger this and it isn't reset for the next disc (with hard drives this is a useful protective measure).

Check in Device Manager what mode the Primary IDE Channel (under IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers) is operating in. If it's in PIO mode, uninstall it, and reboot. It'll be automagically reinstalled, and will default to the much faster DMA mode. Then your DVD's will be back to sane speed.

I know it sounds like uninstalling this could be disasterous, but it isn't. I've done it myself after encountering this problem.

If it isn't in PIO mode then you may have a different problem.

 

U guyz rox !! PIO mode was the culprit...
I did uninstall the "Primary IDE Channel" and the mode was changed to DMA after rebooting!
Now copying is working perfectly..

Thanx a lot!