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DVD drives running slow

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DesertChicken

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Hey, I have an 8X dvd RW drive attatched to my MSI P965 Neo motherboard and I've been experiencing really slow install times when I use dvd's to install games. When I installed company of heroes the music that the installer plays came out all garbled.

Whenever I insert a new cd or dvd, hte whole system slows down and any sound playing at the moment comes out garbled like the Company of Heroes background music.

Now I'm playing a CD in the drive and the songs are playing a slow (the clock on the music player is literally ticking a half second slower than the system clock) and there's some static every 5 seconds or so.

What could be causing this?
 
Enable DMA on your DVD-ROM drive. That will allow the music to play at normal speed. Then, spend $20 on a 16X DVD-ROM drive, and that will allow it to play twice as fast.:laugh:
 
Ok, I went into Device manager and opened up the tab for my IDE devices and this is what i see:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v232/DesertChicken/ide2.jpg

The second Primary and Secondary channels say they're running Ultra DMA mode 5. The third Secondary channel, even though its setting is DMA if available says it's running in PIO mode.
I have two SATA hardrives hookedup that you can see up there. My motherboard only has one IDE port. So what's going on here?

Also, there's this 5th SATA port on my motherboard next to the 4 pink ones. I'm guessing it's the Intel port referenced in the screenshot. What difference would it make if i plugged one of my Harddrives into it and another into one of the pink ones?
 
Since your motherboard only has one IDE port (channel, really), you should disable everything that has to do with the Secondary channel. That may very well solve the problem, though I'm not sure. I've never owned a motherboard with a single IDE channel.
 
Hmm. Nope. When I disable the third one my disk drive disappears from my computer. It also won't let me disable the second secondary drive.

Hmm. It seems the two Intel SATA controllers control two things. The 2 port one controls the IDE port and the black SATA port next to it. The 4 port one is the one I have my 2 harddrives attached to.
 
I doubt it is the cable. It's probably the optical drive itself. Why not get another DVD Rom? They're cheap and it can help you troubleshooting and can be useful especially when you're not burning cd/dvd's.
 
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