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DVD burner defective?

Dash

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I have this SONY DVD CD burner thats not connected to my machine yet. Cos the computer professional said there was something wrong with it and said if he connected to the rest of my machine, it would slow down the entire machine (a slow link in the entire chain.)

But this same computer professional specialist was wrong about my 250 GB harddrive being defective. (It only needed to be installed with the W/D utilities CD to install all of 250 GB's of the hard drive to be available and to show properly on the computer.) But instead, he didn't know that and decided to call it defective and suggested I take it back to have it exchanged. (Which I did two times.)

So, he also says my SONY DVD CD burner is defective as well. I decided to go against his final opinion and connect it to the rest of my computer to find out for certain, for myself if it is indeed defective.

My question is. Will I notice that its slowing down my computer, once its connected? And how do I find out for certain if its indeed operating at an impaired rate? (BIOS?) Will I be able to notice, tell?
 

albertp

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Just sttaching another IDE device won't slow down your system. But burning a DVD might slow it down. Just make sure that the DVD burner is set as a master on the IDE cable and that DMA access is set on the advanced properties of the DVD burner.

How much RAM do you have and what speed is your CPU? Some DVD burners need at least 800 Mhz to run the software.

Seems like your "Computer Professional" isn't very reliable.
You're better off posting in newsgroups like alt .video.dvdr to find answers.
 
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