I was wondering if one of you smart guys could help me out here. I have a lite-on 24x burner running on an Athlon 750, Fast 60GB w/8MB Buffer, 192mb of ram, Win2Kpro on a FAT32 file system. I Have never come anywhere close to getting the speed of burns I had with win me. I used to burn a full disk in under 4 min. I just burned a full disk and it took 7:48 sec and this is an improvement from the 12 min it was taking before I rearanged the cables. I have also never been able to find anyplace to enable DMA. Is this not available in Win2k Pro? Does it have anything to do with me staying with Fat32? Should I consider going to WinXP Pro? I just hate to think of all that work backing up and reinstalling. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Speckulator

PS The lite on the front of the drive is going from red to orange like a damn strobe light. Which one indicates that burn proof is active red or orange?

For Win2k the DMA settings are found under the properties of the IDE controller rather than the specific device.

Thanks for the tip guy, now a new problem has cropped up............. When I went back and looked at the last disk I burned, and now a couple more, I see that it really isn't burning the disk at all now. The light on the drive is acting like it is going in and out of burn-proof and Nero reports that the disk write was successful but if I try to read the disk I get an error. Something like no disk in the drive or something like that. It will find data on a previously burned disk but is apparently not burning new ones. How do I tell if the drive is trashed. It's about 18 months old and has burned about 100-150 disks. I uninstalled and reinstalled the drive but it didn't help. Any ideas?

Thanks
Speck

Try installing an ASPI Layer. Unlike Win9xx/ME, Win2K/XP does not natively install the ASPI layer required by most burnware and rippers.

RADIFIED Guide to ASPI Drivers (http://aspi.radified.com/).

Originally posted by BlackDiamondJr
Try installing an ASPI Layer. Unlike Win9xx/ME, Win2K/XP does not natively install the ASPI layer required by most burnware and rippers.

RADIFIED Guide to ASPI Drivers (http://aspi.radified.com/).

Thanks BD that got it workings again :) although still at slower speeds than I was getting with winme :(

Speckulator

i find the xp seems to burn slower than other OSes even with the aspi layers installed.