Hey guys... i hope you can help me with this. I have a Sony CRX225E CD-RW. Its a 52x24x52 drive... The problem is every time i try to burn a cd, be it iso or just a disc of mp3's it takes at least 7 minutes at 52x. This is definitely not burning at 52x. Ive tried this with 48X CD-Rs and all different types of burns (CD Audio, mp3s, iso, movies) and no matter what it takes at least 7 min. This happens even when i try it at 48X... still at least 7 min. I use Nero 6.0.0.11 as my software and i have an Athlon XP 2500+, Asus A7N8X Del, 1GB of PC2700 Ram, Win2kpro, and my cd drives are on the other IDE channel than the hard drives. I looked for firmware updates on Sonys site but i didnt find any. If you guys have any ideas why this is happening or have had this happen and know a fix any info would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
-Lalaji

Well it sounds like an IDE driver problem. Have you installed the latest nForce2 chipset drivers from http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp as these will help with the speed of the IDE controllers. I used to have loads of problems wih VIA chipset mobo's doing exactly the same.

HTH, T.

Ill try updating and let you know what happens. Thanks for the advice.

Ok so I updated my drivers and now shes burnin like a pro. Burned a 744MB Bin file in 2:25. Thanks for all your help!

no worries m8 :)

remember, drivers are for life, not just for xmas