DVD writer slow burning

Hello,

I was happy with my LG 4163 DVD burner. It used to take about 12-13
minutes to burn a DVD at 4x speed. I burned around 350 DVDs. All of a
sudden it started to take about 35 minutes to burn a DVD at 4x speed.
What happened? The laser is getting weaker?

Thank you in advance,
Mike

gafan2@gmail.com wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I was happy with my LG 4163 DVD burner. It used to take about 12-13
> minutes to burn a DVD at 4x speed. I burned around 350 DVDs. All of a
> sudden it started to take about 35 minutes to burn a DVD at 4x speed.
> What happened? The laser is getting weaker?
>
> Thank you in advance,
> Mike

Have you been cramming more data on your more recent DVDs? Have you
changed media brands/types?

It should take around 13 minutes to burn 4GB at 4x.

You can try a lens cleaner CD to see if it helps. It will do no harm.

gafan2@gmail.com wrote

> I was happy with my LG 4163 DVD burner. It used to take about 12-13
> minutes to burn a DVD at 4x speed. I burned around 350 DVDs. All of a
> sudden it started to take about 35 minutes to burn a DVD at 4x speed.
> What happened? The laser is getting weaker?

Can you try it in a different system ? That would distinguish
between the drive going bad and the system its in with a problem.

If you cant, check if DMA is enabled on the drive. Win can decide
that there are too many errors with a drive and run it in PIO mode
for safety and that can produce a sustantial slow down.

If it turns out to be the drive, not worth bothering with why,
they are so cheap now that you might as well just buy another.

Thank you guys for your quick response.
Sorry, forgot to mention: there was no changes in setup. The same
medias, similar patterns of data, DMA is enabled. I'm just wondering
how long those writers last?
Is 300-400 disks brings burner to the of its life?
TIA,
Mike
Rod Speed wrote:
> gafan2@gmail.com wrote
>
> > I was happy with my LG 4163 DVD burner. It used to take about 12-13
> > minutes to burn a DVD at 4x speed. I burned around 350 DVDs. All of a
> > sudden it started to take about 35 minutes to burn a DVD at 4x speed.
> > What happened? The laser is getting weaker?
>
> Can you try it in a different system ? That would distinguish
> between the drive going bad and the system its in with a problem.
>
> If you cant, check if DMA is enabled on the drive. Win can decide
> that there are too many errors with a drive and run it in PIO mode
> for safety and that can produce a sustantial slow down.
>
> If it turns out to be the drive, not worth bothering with why,
> they are so cheap now that you might as well just buy another.

gafan2@gmail.com wrote:
> Thank you guys for your quick response.
> Sorry, forgot to mention: there was no changes in setup. The same
> medias, similar patterns of data, DMA is enabled. I'm just wondering
> how long those writers last?
> Is 300-400 disks brings burner to the of its life?

Some have died that quickly.


> Rod Speed wrote:
>> gafan2@gmail.com wrote
>>
>>> I was happy with my LG 4163 DVD burner. It used to take about 12-13
>>> minutes to burn a DVD at 4x speed. I burned around 350 DVDs. All of
>>> a sudden it started to take about 35 minutes to burn a DVD at 4x
>>> speed. What happened? The laser is getting weaker?
>>
>> Can you try it in a different system ? That would distinguish
>> between the drive going bad and the system its in with a problem.
>>
>> If you cant, check if DMA is enabled on the drive. Win can decide
>> that there are too many errors with a drive and run it in PIO mode
>> for safety and that can produce a sustantial slow down.
>>
>> If it turns out to be the drive, not worth bothering with why,
>> they are so cheap now that you might as well just buy another.