i posted earlier since then i have been and got ma memory i had leant my uncle i am running a P4 3.0 GB prescott on a msi mobo with 1024 MB of DDR400 ram and liteon dvd-rw dual layer 16x every time i go to burn a dvd whether it be off the hdd or disc it takes over a minute for the buffer level to move then it is forever up and down really doing ma head in the dvd-rw is brand new coz the problem happened with ma nec so bought a new one never cured it i use nero 6.600 and all ide channels are set too dma. :-(