DVD Writer not writing at the speed of the Blank

Hi,

I recently bought a new HP Pavilion a1220n Pentium 4 Computer with a HP DVD
Writer 740b Lightscribe drive. It advertizes that it is an 8x writer. I
have 4X dvd blanks and it will only write at 1.3x speed. Even the CD writer
only writes at about 9X speed. I use Sony 1-8X dvd blanks and TDK 4x dvd
blanks. I use Phillips CD blanks. Is there something that I can do.

Thanks

Enable DMA in windows on the controller that the DVD writer is connected.

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"Mike" <mikek5@fuse.net> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I recently bought a new HP Pavilion a1220n Pentium 4 Computer with a HP
DVD
> Writer 740b Lightscribe drive. It advertizes that it is an 8x writer. I
> have 4X dvd blanks and it will only write at 1.3x speed. Even the CD
writer
> only writes at about 9X speed. I use Sony 1-8X dvd blanks and TDK 4x dvd
> blanks. I use Phillips CD blanks. Is there something that I can do.
>
> Thanks
>
>

On 14/12/2005 "Mike" <mikek5@fuse.net> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I recently bought a new HP Pavilion a1220n Pentium 4 Computer with a HP DVD
>Writer 740b Lightscribe drive. It advertizes that it is an 8x writer. I
>have 4X dvd blanks and it will only write at 1.3x speed. Even the CD writer
>only writes at about 9X speed. I use Sony 1-8X dvd blanks and TDK 4x dvd
>blanks. I use Phillips CD blanks. Is there something that I can do.
>
>Thanks
>
>

Head over to The Firmware Page (www.rpc1.org.) There, you will find a web
forum which you can post your question(s) to more savvy DVD owners, since
your problem is really with the DVD media discs. This forum is a general
hardware forum.


Summary of your solution:


Every DVD media disc contains a "Media code" written to the disc. This media
code is read by each DVD writer drive in order for the drive to "compare" this
code to its list of known codes. If the drive locates a "match", then the
drive can "burn" the CD at the "rated" speed. If the drive does not, the
drive takes a known "safe" speed (usually its slowest!) By posting your
question to the forum I mentioned above, you will get several possible
solutions.


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Y.