Help with CD and a DVD drive causing problems

Lamus

Lamus

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Hi,
I have a CD-RW and a DVD reader drives in my PC. They were tranferred from an old rig. Whenever data is read from those drives (like I put a CD in and it looks for autorun, or I copy files from a CD etc) my computer stalls, mouse becomes all laggy and slow, if music is playing it jumps and stutters, and in extreme cases (if im copying like 500mb from a CD) the computer will slow down more and more till it's ALMOST totally non responsive. Then all I can do is eject the CD and it instantly comes up with a copy error - (obviously because I ejected the CD) and my PC is fine again instantly.

I have no idea what is causing this, because there are two drives, the DVD and the CD I dont think it is a fault with them, maybe it is the cable or something??? Is it the motherboard?

Please help,
Lamus
 
If your CD drive and HDD are on the same channel (Likely as your mobo has only one ide port) then whenever you use your cd drive, it'll tax all the bandwidth on the IDE channel so leaving transfers of data slow rates.
 
hey melbourne I will try that now. And my CD drives share an IDE cable, but are on different channels I think. And my HD is SATA.... so I don't think thats the problem

could the fact they are sharing an IDE cable be any problem? Although on the old PC they were sharing and that was no problem...


Edit.
Melbourne I dont think the CD/DVD drives have reverted to PIO, in device manager it says "ultra DMA mode 5" so that appears to be OK...

I will go and check my cables are all plugged in properly :)
 
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Lamus said:
Edit.
Melbourne I dont think the CD/DVD drives have reverted to PIO, in device manager it says "ultra DMA mode 5" so that appears to be OK...
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Agreed, the transfer rate is fine.

Hope you get it fixed, sounds a nasty one.
 
Yeah me too ^^, thanks for the help so far, I just hope people can give some more ideas.

It's not totally PC experience destroying, because luckily PC games nowadays dont read from the CD/DVD drive, but it does cause some problems if Im playing an old game that needs a CD in the drive, and I cant listen to music from the drive either, I have to rip it off every time which is a pain in the ass. I've lived with the problem for a little while now, and Ive got to the point where I want it fixed -.-
 
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