Writing dvds with external dvd drive.

[blue-eye-boy]

The USB implemmentation on your PC may be bad. It may just be bad for your chipset or mobo. I don't know why that happens but sometimes it just does. Your built in drive on the other hand has a direct SATA connection
which makes it fast, while the USB 2.0 is slow because its faulty in some way. Sorry I can't test this here as I don't have an external DVD writer.

Thanks, is there any way how I can test if the usb is "faulty"?

 

[blue-eye-boy]

Forgot to mention, I even tested the memory last night, but no errors was found. For what it's worth...

 

[PeterCH]

Thanks, is there any way how I can test if the usb is "faulty"?

When I say faulty I don't mean something is burned out or loose. It may be a driver issue or it may be poor design of the motherboard or perhaps a chipset problem, ie a fault other people with that particular make and model laptop or maybe laptops with that particular motherboard have, even same make and model laptops could have slightly different mobo revisions I guess. Contact the supplier or manufacturer pronto, at the same time Google for someone else who has had this problem before. I often win with these searches as the problem in question has usually been solved by someone else already.

When I said 'test' meant that I could see how fast my USB 2.0 burns at, sorry for confusing you.

In summary, Google for what other people may have found. Contact manufacturer of the PC, contact manufacturer of the Drive and contact Nero customer support. Don't forget to also post on each of these company's forums. I suggest you copy-paste the same post over and over again,
mention make of computer, make of mobo and model number (usually available in Bios), BIOS ver, Windows ver, amount of RAM, make of drive, etc.

It could also be a medium problem. Are you using good quality DVD-Rs? (eg Verbatim)? If DVD-Rs are a problem maybe using DVD+R's may help
but I doubt this is your problem (medium) at all.

 

[blue-eye-boy]

Thanks a lot, will try all the suggestions. I appreciate all the input. Thanks

 

[The_Unbeliever]

I'm inclined to lean towards a weird USB implementation on your laptop.

Do you run Vista on your laptop?

Your friend's PC - the one with which you managed to cut DVD's at 16x successfully - is it running XP or Vista?

 

[blue-eye-boy]

Hi, my friend's pc and my laptop run xp. Thanks

 

[blue-eye-boy]

?

 

[Lino]

After reading this a couple of times. I think it must be a problem with the USB on your system.

 

[///MoH]

What make/model laptop ?

Im pretty sure your laptop has USB2.0 support right ?

You can check via "Device manager", under "Universal Serial Bus......". If it lists an entry with "Enhanced" then your lappy does have USB2.0

 

[blue-eye-boy]

Yip it has usb 2. I'm going to test the external drive with a much slower fujitsu laptop today. Then see what the speed is there.