[Vinnie]

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Originally Posted by mikeh420

I had changed these settings back in late December, I think you will find all that info earlier in this thread too. As long as I can fix it, no big deal, just curious what causes the changes to be made in the Registry.

That's the reason I posted that part again, it explains why it changes:

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In Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, this time-out value is always 10 seconds. 
    
   An alternate, less-aggressive policy is implemented to reduce the transfer mode (from faster to slower DMA modes, and then eventually to PIO mode) on time-out and CRC errors. The existing behavior is that the IDE/ATAPI Port driver (Atapi.sys) reduces the transfer mode after any 6 cumulative time-out or CRC errors. When the new policy is implemented by this fix, Atapi.sys reduces the transfer mode only after 6 consecutive time-out or CRC errors. This new policy is implemented only if the registry value that is described later in this article is present.
    
   To implement the alternate behavior (reducing the transfer mode after six consecutive time-out or CRC errors instead of after six cumulative time-out or CRC errors), you must modify the registry as described below after you install the hotfix.

That's why you have to add the new DWORD value, i.e. ResetErrorCountersOnSuccess
After doing this it takes 6 consecutive errors instead of 6 cumulative time-out or CRC errors to drop down the speed.

I've not had anymore problems after doing everything in the post. Of course you might be having so many errors that it's dropping down the speed anyway. You might try lowering your burn speed and see if that helps any.