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    Slow DVD on ASUS L5F

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by NewAsuser, Feb 5, 2005.

  1. NewAsuser

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    I've bought L5F with DVD+-RW (Pioneer K13AS) a week ago.
    In comparison with my desktop system (P2.4 with NEC 1300 DVD+-RW)
    DVD video looks very jerky. Also I've noticed that while I'm copying DVDs computer practically got frozen (and that drives me nuts because I've used to work while copying disks and obviously I can't now). Back to my desktop times I've solved such a problems by setting UDMA2 access to DVD in BIOS. But as I figured out that doesn't work for this notebook.

    Is it possible to see DVD movies on this notebook with normal
    quality ?
     
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    Underpantman Notebook Virtuoso

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    The answer is YES.
    The DVD drive should be able to run in UDMA2 mode, it sounds to me like its running PIO at the moment. Again you should be no problems playing DVD's copying data across etc. But if its running in PIO mode then performance will suck big time. There are a few articles out on the internet that explain how to get UDMA working on drives, but it should be on by default.

    Maybe worth checking for a chipset update?

    Apart from that there are a few reg hacks on the internet and failing that a fresh clean install of the OS should fix any problems.
    My HDD got stuck on PIO a few days ago, clean install got rid of the problem
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    ASUS M6Ne 15.4" WSXGA 1.7 PM ATI9700 80Gb HDD 1Gb RAM
     
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    <blockquote id='quote'> quote:<hr height='1' noshade id='quote'>Originally posted by Underpantman
     
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    Check this web page out (http://www.michna.com/kb/WxDMA.htm), its a good place to start and may prove helpful.
    I tried the uninstall trick first this sort of worked for me but for some reason my lappie failed to reinstall the ide channel properly, although it ran in DMA so that was an improvment I guess.

    In general this PIO problem is seems to be the result of some other more serious error that is continuing to occur with your HDD/CDROM, I would check the event viewer for errors with cdrom to see if this was the orginal cause of your problems, as most of these hacks are a band-aid solution IMO.
    Good luck
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    ASUS M6Ne 15.4" WSXGA 1.7 PM ATI9700 80Gb HDD 1Gb RAM
     
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    With the link you provided me I've solved above-mentioned problem
    within a minutes. In device manager I deleted primary IDE channel (I have DVD on it), reboot notebook and viola! - I got
    it running on UDMA mode 2 ! No jerky DVD videos, no frozen system while copying DVD-s - just my Asus running on full speed (I've only 2 weeks ago moved from desktop world and I feel I'm gonna love notebook
    style =)

    Thank you, Underpantman.



    <blockquote id='quote'> quote:<hr height='1' noshade id='quote'>Originally posted byUnderpantman
     
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    Glad it worked for ya.
    Hope it all goes well from now on in.
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    ASUS M6Ne 15.4" WSXGA 1.7 PM ATI9700 80Gb HDD 1Gb RAM
     
    Underpantman, Feb 13, 2005
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