DVD Burner Blues

[cam124]

Hello I just got a DVD burner FINALY :) but it seems to have a slight problem. When I installed the DVD burner to my pc it made it slower...booting windows would take 5x as long and in windows I would experience alot of lag...unbariable lag... Other than that the burner works great. My hardrive is a SATA so the IDE DVD burner shouldn't effected it. Ive had burners and DVD readers but never had a problem. I have a top of the line new pc and im very fusterated. Ive tried reformating...ive tried jumpers and now im lost..TCM PLEASE HELP ME!!! :llh:

Thanks;
Cameron

[AMD]

Is the jumper set correctly?

If it's on the same IDE channel as the hard drive, Western digitals have a different setting for master and slave compared to master with no slave. Check it.

Sometimes optical drives don't like being on the same IDE channel.

[cam124]

But my hardrive is in SATA RAID not IDE put il check it out anyways!!! thanks for the input tho!!!

[AMD]

oops - my bad.

Make sure that the IDE controller is configured properly - on many systems, only one channel can be used when SATA is in use.

[cam124]

Wow Really!!! dang i didnt know that il try it out and let you know asap...every1's sleeping in my house so il have to wait until morning...thanks for all the help AMD..

Thanks;
Cameron

[AMD]

I just checked the motherboard manual and there is no reference to not being able to use two IDE channels when serial ATA is in use. Each board is different.

[cam124]

Ive tried everything..the lag stopped but booting up still takes long...o well i can deal with it lol..thanks for all the help AMD..its guys like you that save noobs like me..hehehehe thanks again!!!