high cpu @ instaling from cd

When i install a game from cd/dvd my notebook is very very sloooow.
The cpu usage is arround 56% and the first core of those two is at full usage. Is this normal? Also when i install games it takes very very much time before it's done. Can ya tell me if this all above is normal or not?

If not, what should i do to fix this problem? (i also did the dualcore config in one of the topics of this site. But i dunno if i did it correct).

 

Nah... I would suspect a defective DVD player. Are you able to read movie DVDs? Mine kinda did that and suddenly I had a very high of failure while birning. Could also be a defective disk, but you mentionned game s, so my guess is that this problem happend with multiple disks.

Have you tried burning CDs? DVDs?

 

Did you try mount a iso game and then seeing if the cpu still goes that high? If it doesn't you probably have a defective dvd drive.

 

when i mount everything is very fine. Also i cant play movies very well, then i get some stuttering

So i guess my DVD player is defective?

 

Sounds like it. Try burning some CDs/DVDs, and maybe looking for a firmware update. Otherwise you might want to look into talking whoever you ordered from to see about replacing your DVD/CD drive.

 

Your drive may have failed over to PIO mode in XP. Google for "PIO DMA XP" and follow the instructions to set the drive back to DMA.

PIO (Programmed I/O) mode requires the CPU to fetch every block from disk to RAM individually, resulting in very high (usually near 100% of one core) CPU usage.

DMA (Direct Memory Access) allows the chipset to shuttle bits from disk to RAM without interrupting the CPU.

 

http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/260038

If pio/dma is indeed the problem.

Any Afterdawn adicts here? Former adicts?

 

Afterdawn? That sounds familiar, but I can't quite place it.


And I'm dumb, your post clearly shows me why I remember it. I think I lurked for awhile, never posted.

 

Oh my god thank ya so very very much! I just copied 1 gig of a DVD to my harddisk and it took only 3/4 minutes!!!

I havent tested anything else, but i think everything is ok now! Ty ya all so very very much! I'm just sitting and smiling like a baby and copying very much gig's of data from dvd to harddisk. (just for fun )

 

Now i've got a new problem: After changing stuff for my dvd drive i still could read the dvd of Dirt. I think it's a dual layer dvd btw.

But since today i can't read that same dvd anymore with my dvd drive. At my normal pc the dvd runs fine. I tried other dvd's in my notebook too, but they all work fine (no dual layer). What should i do to fix my problem with the dirt dvd?

 

Not really sure, firmware maybe? I know that'll solve most burning problems I've had to deal with.

http://forum.rpc1.org/dl_all.php

 

well i wouldn't know what type dvd player/write i have...

i see also that i can open the dvd map (e: in my case) without having any disk in the drive itself... (it shows an empty map)

 

Do you have autoplay disabled? That can sometimes have unexpected consequences...

 

YOu can find your drive in device manager.

 

autoplay is enabled

 

The name of the device: "COMPAL TSD80Y1 DVD RW"

When i select properties of the device it says it's a standard driver and it doesn't show the name of the manufactor.

 

yesterday i made a new clean install of windowsxp without any drivers. The dvdplayer still couldn't read the dirt dvd and some other dvd's too (about those other unreadable dvds: i've found that out by yesterday).
Then i installed some drivers for the notebook: Chipset, gpu driver, audio driver and network driver.
Then i had to reboot the notebook and suddenly the disk was readable again. I've inserted the disk over and over and it still was readable. But since today i can't read the dirt dvd anymore

I've also tried a dvd of oblivion (which i used an half year long till about 5 weeks ago) and that dvd isn't readable too. My computer shows there's a disk inserted, but i can't open it and autoplay doesn't start too. It's obvious the dvdplayer is still reading the disk (also no official oblivion icon).

Do ya have any ideas what to do?

 

Your drive could be reaching the end of its life . . . how often do you use it?

 

Three suggestions, now that the PIO issue is cleared up:

(In no particular order...)

1) Download and install the latest chipset drivers directly from Intel. You MUST read the readme and execute the installer from the command line. Tell it to overwrite all existing drivers; otherwise, it will detect the old ones and refuse to remove them. This may solve your problem; the drivers on Sager's site are old and have issues directly related to your chipset.

2) Locate and burn new firmware to the drive. This may be easier said than done, as I was unable to locate firmware in any of the usual haunts. The OEM for that drive is Optorite, which means that it's pretty ****ty and will generally have about 9-12 months of life in it. Which brings us to...

3) Try using a different DVD drive with that computer. The simplest solution is to borrow a USB DVD drive, but if you know someone else who has a laptop DVD drive, just swap them for long enough to test that DVD. If the other drive works, you know it's time to shop for a quality laptop DVD drive.

Good luck.

 

uhm hard to answer, but i dont overuse and i dont underuse it.