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Since: May 08, 2004
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(Msg. 1) Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2006 3:55 pm
Post subject: Reasons why a CD-RW drives performance drops?
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I've been so pleased with my LG GCE8520B drive - burnt inumerable disks at
52x and never a coaster until recently. Now I'm having to reduce write speed
down to 8x to avoid coasters, and it has started having trouble even playing
disks - for example a divx or xvid film stutters a lot when playing - the PC
is'nt getting the data fast enough. I can understand a drive failing
completely, but what could cause this sudden reduction in performance?
Windows event viewer has started showing errors about the CD ROM - "The
driver detected a controller error on \Device\Ide\IdePort1" & "The device,
\Device\Ide\IdePort1, did not respond within the timeout period"
Idon't know if it's worth trying to mess with the drive or just get a new
one...
TIA

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(Msg. 2) Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2006 1:51 pm
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> I've been so pleased with my LG GCE8520B drive - burnt inumerable disks at
> 52x and never a coaster until recently. Now I'm having to reduce write
> speed
> down to 8x to avoid coasters, and it has started having trouble even
> playing
> disks - for example a divx or xvid film stutters a lot when playing - the
> PC
> is'nt getting the data fast enough. I can understand a drive failing
> completely, but what could cause this sudden reduction in performance?
> Windows event viewer has started showing errors about the CD ROM - "The
> driver detected a controller error on \Device\Ide\IdePort1" & "The device,
> \Device\Ide\IdePort1, did not respond within the timeout period"
> Idon't know if it's worth trying to mess with the drive or just get a new
> one...
> TIA
>
Do you have any games installed that use Starforce as their protection
method? If so, check that out.
John

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(Msg. 3) Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 4:55 pm
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Ever tried cleaning it?

"John A. Mason" <jamas.DeleteThis@ream.net> wrote in message
news:12019p1pqdv8r47@corp.supernews.com...
>
> > I've been so pleased with my LG GCE8520B drive - burnt inumerable disks
at
> > 52x and never a coaster until recently. Now I'm having to reduce write
> > speed
> > down to 8x to avoid coasters, and it has started having trouble even
> > playing
> > disks - for example a divx or xvid film stutters a lot when playing -
the
> > PC
> > is'nt getting the data fast enough. I can understand a drive failing
> > completely, but what could cause this sudden reduction in performance?
> > Windows event viewer has started showing errors about the CD ROM - "The
> > driver detected a controller error on \Device\Ide\IdePort1" & "The
device,
> > \Device\Ide\IdePort1, did not respond within the timeout period"
> > Idon't know if it's worth trying to mess with the drive or just get a
new
> > one...
> > TIA
> >
> Do you have any games installed that use Starforce as their protection
> method? If so, check that out.
> John
>
>
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