The DVD drive on my pc has suddenly decided to play and rip really slow. Also i cant listen to music or any sounds infact, properly while ripping my music to wmp.
It must be something simple as it was working fine the other day.

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Originally posted by speedyxjs
It must be something simple as it was working fine the other day.

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It will be in a minute when i hit it with a hammer

if the computer won't play any sounds properly, sounds more like there's some process running thats using up too much resources, which has the effect of the system not being able to rip music properly

[Edited on 4/1/09 by blakep82]

Thats what i thought but i have 4 gig ram and the only programs running are firefox, wmp and avg (not scanning). Would this really slow it down? Iv never had any problems before.

i don't know... i wouldn't have thought so, but sometimes windows has a habit of random processes using up too much processing power

Try doing a 3-finger salute (ctrl, alt-del) and run task manager, go to performance and minimise it. Look at what the CPU is doing when the disk goes funny.... If it's maxing out then check under processes to see what % CPU each process is pulling....

Right click 'My Computer', select 'Properties', select 'Hardware' tab, click 'Device Manager' button. Open the tree for your IDE controller, and select the IDE channel that your DVD drive is connected to (i.e. Primary or secondary). Select the 'Advanced Settings' tab and check what transfer mode is currently being used. It should be an Ultra DMA mode (4 or 5 probably). If it's set to PIO (Programmed IO) this will explain the extreme slowness.

Have you had a windows update recently?
Microshaft can sometimes update drivers on your machine and mess up your hardware without you doing anything.
See if you can roll back your drivers.