Whenever I put a CD in my computer, it slows down to the point where I can't
edit it or run it at all...I've run a virus scan, use ad-aware, and spybot,
but to no avail. Any help?

Hi,

Did you plug the CD ROM drive as a slave to your existing HDD? Or did you
hook it up as secondary master? If not, you may try connecting the CD ROM
drive to the secondary IDE controller with a separate cable (as master) and
see how it goes. Also, you might want to try using another IDE cable.
Actually, if everyhing is set right, the drive should work fine as primary
slave as well.

JohnJ

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> Whenever I put a CD in my computer, it slows down to the point where I
> can't
> edit it or run it at all...I've run a virus scan, use ad-aware, and
> spybot,
> but to no avail. Any help?

Hi,

The DMA mode on the CD drive may be switched to PIO mode by XP.
Go to device manager, double click IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers,
double click Secondary IDE Channel (assuming the CD-rom is connected to this
channel), click the Advanced Settings and check for DMA mode.
If it showed PIO mode, try to select DMA mode.
If you cannot change to DMA mode, boot into safe mode and login as
administrator.
go to device manager and then uninstall the Secondary IDE Channel then reboot.
Let windows search and reinstall the IDE channel. Go to device manager and
change to DMA mode again.

Also, you may need to clean the CD len by using a CD Len cleaning kit.

Hope it helps.

Peter



"Red Alert" wrote:

> Whenever I put a CD in my computer, it slows down to the point where I can't
> edit it or run it at all...I've run a virus scan, use ad-aware, and spybot,
> but to no avail. Any help?