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    DVD drive is abnormally slow..

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by Clyzm, Apr 8, 2009.

  1. Clyzm

    Clyzm Notebook Evangelist

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    So this hasn't really bothered me much since I don't use my DVD drive all that often (Maybe 6-7 times in the last 8 months I've owned this laptop), but it's a nagging concern that makes me reluctant to use it in the first place...

    My DVD drive is slow. Really slow. Think "burning at 2x speed when I know I bought a 16x disc and put on all the proper settings" slow.

    I'm using all the default Windows 7 drivers, and attempted to update the firmware which actually errored during installation, so I gave up on that.

    Screenshot for slowness:


    http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/8030/dvdn.png


    Any ideas on how to fix this? Or on how to get the firmware installation working?

    The model of the drive is: Optiarc AD-7560S

    edit: Oh, I forgot to clarify: When I try to update the firmware of the drive, simply nothing happens after I click update. I get no progress bar, I get no new window, no notification. The window I was in disappears. According to the instructions my drive was supposed to eject after the update finished... but you know, a few minutes later for a 1.5mb file, I simply doubt it's working.
     
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  2. Johnksss

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    you may need to use a better or different quality of dvd...
     
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    I have the same issue when I bought my m860tu I burned about 15 dvd out of the same box the first 5 were burned at 8x while I was doing all king of other thing a the same time then every one after that were burned at 2x while doing nothing with the same driver, dvd and software. Never found why
     
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  4. Clyzm

    Clyzm Notebook Evangelist

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    Yeah but see, all my dvds, without fail on the same drive have been burning, and copying off of at extremely slow speeds.

    It's definitely not the disk's fault when I can do the same thing with the same disk on my desktop and get 3-5x the speed.
     
    Clyzm, Apr 9, 2009
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  5. Johnksss

    Johnksss .

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    well...for burning..
    it can be the disk or the drive
    for coping it can be the disk/drive or windows vista os with that stupid trying to find all the files nonsense

    edit: why you covering up your porrn drive? lol
    so your not using windows vista ultimate then?
     
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  6. Clyzm

    Clyzm Notebook Evangelist

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    I'm using windows 7 ultimate on both computers, and the desktop is significantly faster with the same disc.

    Game piracy is illegal, and hence the filenames are blacked out.
     
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  7. Johnksss

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    im sure it is.... :)

    bootup in safe mode and see if it does it there as well.
     
    Johnksss, Apr 9, 2009
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