DVD drives hogging system resources
 

For some reason, over the last 24 hours, anything I try to do involving my DVD writer slows my system to a crawl, whether it's ripping music from CD's, ripping DVD's or writing CD's or DVD's, any idea what could be causing this? I've checked for virus's and spyware and that there were no spurious tasks hogging the CPU or memory and there was nothing untoward that I could see.

Re: DVD drives hogging system resources
 

are u using the nforce ide drivers?
dma enabled?

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Yep, I have a feeling it's Starforce 3 which got installed alongside a game.

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You can remove that with the removal tool on the Starforce website...

But the game probably wont play - personally - i would say crack it.

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Removed it, same problem ... doing my nut in now :(

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Any firmware updates available for it? I had the same problem with my Lite-On, firmware update fixed it.

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Absolutely nothing to do with it, as I said in the initial post, it's only been doing it for around 24 hours.

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The only time I've ever had something similar to this happen to me whas when I enabled 'disc at once' mode and disabled 'on the fly' modes in nero.

Although I'm not sure it's what's causing a problem in your case - but it's another idea.

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Not that either, sorry. I can't do a system restore either as I've got a lot of configuration changes and installs I can't afford to lose.

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Have you tried uninstalling the drives?

Have you checked that DMA is enabled (I don't mean in device manager - which has been known to report it wrong) perhaps using a utility to enable it forcefully. eg Xteq (I have no idea if this is athlon 64 compatible so I'd check 1st)

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I bit the bullet and did a system restore to before Starforce was installed, seem's to have cured it, thanks anyway though.

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when something like that happens just try changing the ide cable or moving it on the ide cable

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There was no need, there was obviously nothing wrong with the IDE cable as a system restore cured it.

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Possibly a setting you shouldn't have been messing with? :)

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No, it's called Starforce 3.