HI GUYS ANY IDEA Y A 800 ATHLON PROCESSOR AND 194MB, RAM ,100GB HD 7200 WITH A PIONNER A04 INSTALLED BUT SYSYTEM ONLY SEEMS TO WRITE AT 1 SPEED YES FIRMWARE HAD BEEN SUCCESSFULLY UPDATED 5 OTHER OPERATING SYSTEMS WITH LESS SPEC AND NO PROBS

ANY ADVICE

SUPERNOVA2267@VIZZAVI.NET

What firmware did you upgrade to? The 2x 4 all? Also what blanks are you using? How is the drive connected to your pc? Is DMA enabled for that particular channel?

DMA IS ENABLED DRIVE IS ONLY DRIVE IN UNIT MEDIA IS 2X DATASAFE SAME AS I USE IN ALL MY SYSTEMS M8 FIRMWARE WAS THE 1 THAT WRITES EVEN 1X MEDIA AT 2 SPEED BUT I CANT EVEN WRITE 2X AT 2X PS TRAXDATA 1X STILL BURN AT 1 SPEED ON SYSTEM EVEN THOUGH UPGRADE SUGGESTED THEY WOULD BURN AT 2X

Got me stumped. I don't have the 2x firmware so I don't know unfortunately.

My drive won't write at 2X unless I have the ASPI layer that installs with DVDit! PE.

I discovered that totally by accident, when it STOPPED recording at 2X. After countless hours of "F"ing around, I reinstalled DVDit and it was fixed. I don't even use that program anymore but the ASPI layer is crucial to my system (XP).