DVD Burner is very very slow

Hey guys, long time no speak........My problem is that my DVD Burner is very very slow and I can't figure out why. I had a Sony DRU-820A which burns at up to 16x, when I was backing up my movies (in case the kids scratched the originals) it use to take less then 10 mins. to burn a dvd (using Nero 6.6.1.4) then one day it took over 1hr. to burn a dvd(I only had the burner for about 2 months). So I tried a few more and the all took between 1-1.5hrs to burn When Nero 1st started burning is showed that total time would be 8mins or so, but then it would just go into extra time for over an hour. I thought that my burner may be dead but the movies still did play on my dvd player after nero was done. I went out and bought another burner (same kind) but it is also burning slow too I was wondering if there is something that I may have done to screw up the settings of my burner or somthing......does anyone know why it may be burning so slow?
I am running XP on an Asus A7A motherboard with an AMD Athlon 1.2GHZ processor, and 512MB of RAM.

Thanks for the help

 

A shot in the dark....

You could have checked auto verify media and it may be checking the burned media.... still should not take an hour or more hmmmm....

Have you tried reinstalling nero ?

It sounds like it could be some other proccess running?

 

I think it has something to do with my seconday ide running in PIO mode but I can't switch it over to DMA confused

 

Hey guys, I found the instruction below on a search and it fix everything for me
All is good and everything is working now......
Thanks for all the help


Following is the mechanism that has worked for me, please try it at your own risk, it involves hacking the registry:

Open RegEdit
Find the following KEY:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\ Class\{4D36E96A-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}\000x
The last four digits will be 0000, 0001, 0002, 0003, and so on.
Under each key, delete all occurences of the following values:
MasterIdDataChecksum
SlaveIdDataChecksum
Reboot the computer. Windows will now redetect DMA settings.