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Slow cd-rom once again
Name: Frosty Date: January 25, 2004 at 21:02:17 Pacific OS: Windows xp professional w CPU/Ram: 2.4c/512 ddr
Comment:
A few weeks ago I bought a new hard drive and since then bought a new motherboard. I use to have this problem on my old motherboard but I fixed it but haven't found a way to on my new motherboard. The problem is my cd-rom loads very slowly. Like if I put in a game it takes so long for my cd rom to finally install it. It just reads it for 5 minutes before doing anything. Once it starts installing it, it reads it fine. (just the loading time is horrible) The problem the last time was my cd rom and hard drive were both set on master. I fixed that by changing the jumpers on the cd-rom to make it slave. Now im using the same configurations on my new motherboard but im having the same problems. I flashed the bios thinking that might be it but it wasn't and I have the latest chipset installed. The current configs in my bios are: My cd-rom=Second IDE slave Hard drive=Fourth IDE master Anyone have any ideas?
Name: anonymous Date: January 26, 2004 at 20:24:07 Pacific
Reply:
your hd should be primary master. And your cd rom secondary slave. What chipset? Some require additional drivers. It does this with every cd?
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Response Number 2
Name: Frosty Date: January 27, 2004 at 18:55:28 Pacific
Reply:
My hard drive didnt come with any jumpers so I tried the jumpers on my old hard drive which didnt work (the hard drive setting didnt change). My chipset is 865PE and my motherboard is Asus AI series p4p800 NOT deluxe. The slow loading time happens with data cds and game cds but my audio cds load perfectly.
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Response Number 3
Name: Frosty Date: January 27, 2004 at 18:57:13 Pacific
Reply:
When I said "I tried the jumpers on my old hard drive which didnt work" . I meant I took the jumpers off of my old hard drive which I no longer use and put them on my new one. Just to clarify :P
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