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Hi, I'm having a problem in XP. When I try to play some CDs such as DivX and some games (in particular FIFa2002). The CD plays very slow. The CD basically gains a certain amount of speed, and then slows down suddenly. Autoplay is very slow and movies are jumpy all the time and unviewable. My PC has a dual boot and on Windows 98, these CDs work fine. Moreover, its not a CD problem, cause I have several CDs from the same brand and they work fine. I've tried the problem CDs on Windows XP of a friend of mine and they worked on hers, getting me even more confused. I've also read that it could be a problem with my Nero CD Writing software, but my friend has nero as well and has had no problems. Can anyone come up with any help on what I need to do. It will be greatly appreciated as now I'm thinking that XP could not be as good as I thought it was. My computer is a Pentium III 733Mhz 512Megs RAM. My CD drives are a Samsung SD-612s dvd drive, Creative CD5233E (52X driver) and Samsung SW-224B CD recorder. On all of them I got the same problem. and are all in DMA mode. I've tried PIO but to no avail..same problem...
That Creative Drive is bad news, i had one and experienced the same problem. There isnt a fix for it since its the speed that it spins,i would suggest getting a new drive to replace the Creative. How about trying a 32x drive they are, in my mind better anf more stable. Unless someone know how to really slow your drive down, i have heard of it being done i dont know how. Actually why dont you get a CDRW drive Plexor, Yamaha amd TDK are pretty good expecially if you rip MP3's etc.
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Hi, I think you may be right, to solve my problem I will probably need to upgrade the firmware for my CDROM, CD5233E. Can anyone tell me where I can get the firware or any other solution as it seems that creative do not support this product
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I have a very similar problem. My computer is a 1GHz Athlon on a MSI K7T Turbo with Promise RAID.
IDE 1 - 20GB HD Master, 8GB HD Slave
IDE 2 - Creative 52X Master, LG 32/16/8 CDRW.
IDE 3 - 60GB HD Master
I ran some Nero test and found that my 52x could run at a max of 8x with 100% CPU ute and my CDRW could only burn at 12x, most likely b/c it was slave to the Creative.Here's what I changed due to some HD problems I was having.
IDE 1 - 20GB HD Master, LG CDRW slave
IDE 2 - Creative 52x Master
IDE 3 - 60GB HD Master
IDE 4 - 8GB HD slave (lost a jumper connector)Results:
52x now runs at an amazing 12x (note sarcastic tone in statement)
CDRW now burns at 16x like it's supposed to.
8 GB HD is making clicking noises... (imminent crash?).
I definitely think the 52x is a major culprit of the slow CD performance. I can't believe Creative doesn't even offer updated drivers!
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I have a similar problem with my Windows 2000 system with a Samsung sd-612s CD/DVD player and a Plextor CD-burner (P4, 1.7Ghz, 512 K RAM). I don't think the problem is really with the Samsung player because both CD-ROm drives are problematic. Sometimes discs are only recognized very slowly and some discs cannot be read at all. I tried upgrading the firmware for the Samsung (SF01 to SF04) but this has not really made much difference. I am still working on a solution but I recall that I did not have so many problems until I switched from Windows 98 to Windows 2000.
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I had performance issues with my Creative 52x drive in Windows XP until I went to the device manager and went to the properties for the Primary IDE channel(my Creative 52x drive is on the Primary Slave channel) and I changed the transfer mode for Device 1(the slave channel) in the Advanced Settings from PIO only to "DMA if available".
My drive was running in PIO Mode 4 before the change and now it runs in Multi-Word DMA mode 2 after the change. DMA takes the massive workload off of your CPU and lets the IDE controller do the work which in the end gives you much better performance.
You guys should go set the channel(s) you have your CD-ROM/CD-RW drives on to DMA. You will get much better performance. Hope this helps. :)
A pic of what I'm talking about.
http://zombie9920.homestead.com/files/ideprop.jpg
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I found out a nifty little tidbit about the Creative CD5233E drive a few minutes ago and tried it out. On the back of your drive there are a set of 4 prones the outside edge next to the IDE Ribbon cable connector (2 of them will be covered with a plastic jumper sleeve..and no I'm not talking about the Master/Slave/CHS mode jumpers...these are on the other side of the cable). If you take that jumper off your drive will operate in ATA-33/UDMA-2 instead of PIO 4/MW DMA2. If you slide that jumper over to the other 2 prones your drive will turn into a BTC 5GD drive and will operate in ATA-33 also.
When it is in ATA-33 it uses even less CPU cycles than MW DMA 2. You all may want to try it for yourself. :)
Thanx to FireWire for posting this info here. http://www.cdspeed2000.com/go.php3?link=details.php3&Type=TOP10&Brand=Creative&Model=CD5233E
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I have a Creative CD5233E , and i have a very weird problem. I also have a Samsung DVD/cdrw combo, and what happens is that if both drives are conected on the secondary channel windowsXP wont start, But if i remove one of the drives windows works just fine. Another problem i have is that when i start windows with only the CD5233E, it wont read any cds. i know the drive is ok because i've installed it on several pcs with Windows Me, 98, 2000 and it works just fine. Any thoughts on why is this happening?
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