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TM8100 Slooooooow DVD Burning...new drivers?

post #1 of 6
8/31/06 at 10:19pm
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Hey everyone,

My optical drive died in my TM 8100, and Acer sent me a new one. It's working just fine now, but I'm having burning problems. I've tried both iTunes and NTI DVD Maker, and I can only burn 2X. I know I'm supposed to be getting 8X burning. I checked Acer's downloads site for new drivers, but optical drive drivers aren't even posted at all. I've read a few other posts on the subject here at the forums, and I tried updating drivers through Device Manager (didn't work). I'm thinking about installing the Adaptec ASPI drivers as that was suggested in another topic, but I have no idea what they do. I checked the ATA Secondary thing and they're both set to "DMA if available."

DarthAcer, you once suggested turning of XP CD burning, but I couldn't really figure out how to do that. Can someone help me?
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post #2 of 6
9/1/06 at 2:46am
Just wondering, did you call acer or use their online repair site? I tried finding a phone number for contact but everytime I click to get to that apge it says its not there. Thanks
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post #3 of 6
9/1/06 at 6:17am
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I called them, as I have the extended warrantee. The number is listed on the Acer Support site. I don't know it off-hand.
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post #4 of 6
9/1/06 at 3:34pm
It's possible that firmware in your DVD/CD burner does not know about high-speed media you are trying to use. Try different blanks. Some 4x or 8x speed for instance. I know that newest 16x are not all being recognized as such and burner falls back to 2x for those.

Other than that, search for firmware update for your DVD/CD burner.
http://forum.rpc1.org/dl_all.php
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post #5 of 6
9/1/06 at 6:52pm
Your optical drive may be reverting to PIO mode - its a common Win XP problem.

http://winhlp.com/WxDMA.htm

http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device...e/IDE-DMA.mspx

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/817472/
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post #6 of 6
9/2/06 at 9:00am
My 8200 has same problem. After some research, I found the burner always burn at CLV mode. Some media advertise as 8X, but only 2x - 6x at CLV mode. My experience is the DVD+R/RW has higher CLV speed than DVD-R/RW。
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