Is the LG drive proprietary or did you add it to your Dell, you can just provide the Dell's model # if the drive came stock with it. StopBadware

I just bought it and added it, it already had a DVD ROM. The Dell is a GX Optiplex?? I can provide exact details tomorrow. The Dell only had one IDE which it is attached to as a master.

I hope you made certain the jumper is on Cable Select.

You probably have Intel's 915G Express, 945G Express or 865GV Chipset, however you can use Intel's ID tool to confirm what you have. Once you do update to the latest one for your board and try one of the methods suggested below if you still have the problem. The first should most likely take care of it. Option 1: 0. Open RegEdit 1. Find the following KEY: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\ Class\{4D36E96A-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}\000x 2. The last four digits will be 0000, 0001, 0002, 0003, and so on. 3. Under each key, delete all occurences of the following values: MasterIdDataChecksum SlaveIdDataChecksum 4. Reboot the computer. Windows will now redetect DMA settings. Option 2: Edit the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E96A-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}\0000 and add a new DWORD value called EnableUDMA66 with a value of 1. Option 3: Save the text (notepad) below as a .reg file and execute it Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E96A-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}\0000] “EnableUDMA66”=dword:00000001 Goodluck. StopBadware

The Jumper is on Master... its the only thing plugged into the IDE... I have a Sata Hdd.

""PIO Mode only"' Above that is Device type: is that set to > Auto Detection?

Yes it is set to "Auto Detection", the only other option is "none"

Try removing the device in Device Manager & rebooting.

Get sp2 if needed. Download sp2 from one of these. Once installed get all the critical updates, choose Custom install. http://www.softwarepatch.com/windows/xpsp2.html http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=846 IDE ATA and ATAPI disks use PIO mode after multiple time-out or CRC errors occur http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;817472#kb4 http://users.bigpond.net.au/ninjaduck/itserviceduck/udma_fix/

Well, I'm bowing out of this one as I am not experienced enough here... but I do know one thing, and that is the fact that Dell ships every system configured (jumpered) for Cable Select.

The LG drive is not proprietary; however some LG drives have oddball firmware. Removing the drive, or the IDE controllers, from Device Manager will not get rid of this problem. It has nothing to do with what XP version you have. If the specs apply to the computer this drive is on, a P4 computer will detect the drive properly in the bios as long at it sees the drive, which it apparently does. XP doesn't need any special drivers to be able to detect the capabilities of ther driver. If you have the correct mboard chipset drivers installed.... Sabertooth's response 10 procedure is exactly what you need to do, except you should note that the location after this part of the string varies from computer to computer: e.g. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E96A-(varies) I have used the first option several times and it works fine. What he didn't mention is that you need to make sure you start from the beginning of the displayed "tree" making up the Registry - XP saves whatever position in the tree it was at the last time it was run, and that is where you will be the next the time you start Regedit - and once you have found one instance of e.g. MasterIdDataChecksum, press the F3 key to search for more of the same item - in this case, if there is one, there will be several of the same. - after you have searched for one item, make sure you start at the beginning of the "tree" again before searching for the next item. .... Windows XP will insert those lines in the Registry (MasterIdDataChecksum, or SlaveIdDataChecksum) if it detects your drive is producing too many data errors, in order to force the drive to use PIO mode and slow it down. It doesn't do that unless it thinks there is a valid reason to do that. It can be caused by a faulty drive but usually isn't, possibly a power spike or surge if you don't have protection from that, but it is usually caused by a poor connection. - no one has mentioned this yet - the data cable connectors must be seated properly on the mboard and the CD drive - open up the case and make sure they are. Look for damaged wires at each connector on the outsides of the data cable. If in doubt, replace the data cable - they are inexpensive. If the CD drive is by itself on a data cable, or on the same cable as another CD drive, the data cable can be 40 wire or 80 wire. If the CD drive is on the same data cable as a recent hard drive, the data cable must be 80 wire, rated for UDMA66 or better.

I have set it now to DMA Mode, It has DMA Ultra mode5? Or something like that. However it is still only reading the dvd at 3.5mb per second in DVD shrink. What can I do to improve this as it is taking me at least 30 minutes just to read and compress the disk. The Dell is a Optiplex GX280 and it came standard with only a DVD ROM which in DVD shrink reads and compress's at 9MB per second.

"...It has DMA Ultra mode5? ..." That's impossible. No CD or DVD drive can run that fast. You were looking at the wrong one - that would be a hard drive UDMA. A fairly recent CD or DVD drive would show Multi-Word DMA Mode 2, or UDMA mode 2, possibly UDMA mode 3 with the newest drives - no higher than that. Old CD or DVD drives may be slower than that, but most can achieve at least Multi-Word DMA Mode 2. I haven't seen one higher than UDMA mode 2 myself - if the drive is capable of faster than that, you should probably use an 80 wire data cable. On some drives you must move a jumper on the drive to be able to achieve the fastest data transfer rates. See the docs and specs for the burner you have to see what UDMA it is capable of. If you are reading a DVD off of an older DVD reader (it only reads), or an older DVD burner, they are quite slow at reading in comparison to recent DVD readers or burners. If you also have a DVD burner, don't bother using the older DVD reader drive - read the DVD you want to copy with the burner, it will copy it's contents to the hard drive much faster, then you insert your blank DVD burnable disk, and copy from the hard drive to the burner. It's the same procedure you would use if you had only the DVD burner drive. Also - to achieve maximum speeds, you must have at least 1 1/2 times the DVD capacity of free space on your hard drives, in addition to enough free space for the Windows swap files to work properly. If your hard drive doesn't have enough free space, the rate at which the DVD programs works is a lot slower. It also helps to Defrag the hard drive(s), and to have no other programs running while you are using DVD related software - they are very cpu intensive, and running anything you don't need to run at the same time will slow down the process. Also - it depends on what type of DVD disk you are reading - if it is a burned disk you are reading, the maximum read rates are much slower than for a common "pressed" DVD's.

Its quite possible that I was looking at the wrong thing becuase there was also one that had dma ultra mode 2. Its unlikely to be the hdd though coz thats on SATA.. so I dont know what that was that I was looking at. Anyway its a brand new burner, the DVD ROM that came with the pc reads much much faster than the brand new dvd writer. Its a fresh install of XP on a brand new HDD so its unlikey to need a defrag. I don't know what kind of cable it is, but I have tried a few different cables including the one that was already in the PC when I got it (Its a brand new Dell, P4 3G, IGB RAM) I am trying to read just a normal movie DVD and I have tried a few different DVD'S.

You can count can't you? In addition, an 80 wire IDE data cable will often have three different colors for the three connectors on the cable, and on a 40 wire data cable they are always the same color, usually black. If you have the CD drive by itself and it is jumpered as master, it doesn't matter which connector on the cable you connect it to. If the drive is jumpered CS (cable select) it has to be on the end connector on the cable. Check the settings in your burning software - it may be defaulting to the lowest possible settings for reading, writing, etc.

80 wire cable http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/if/ide/confCable80-c.html

got the exact problem you have. i change my new dvd burner to master and the cd rom to slave. that's it. now everything runs and encodes fast as the burner speeds specs.