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CD-ROM access slows down computer

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Name: John
Date: March 31, 2002 at 18:42:05 Pacific
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When ever something is copying from the CD-ROM, my computer slows down and it makes it impossible to play MP3s and hard to surf while that is happening.

Windows XP Pro
Memorex 40x CD-ROM
20Gb Maxtor HDD
Athlon 1.2 GHz
Abit KT7a

Any ideas? This did not used to occur. TIA

This sis not used



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Name: Shaft
Date: March 31, 2002 at 19:09:45 Pacific
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make sure dma is enabled even though i think xp does it automatically.


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Response Number 2
Name: John Zheng
Date: March 31, 2002 at 19:47:38 Pacific
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try connect your CDROM and HDD on separate IDE channel, CDROMS work best as master devices.


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Response Number 3
Name: Chris
Date: March 31, 2002 at 20:47:25 Pacific
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Try defragmenting your hard drive, choose a slower write speed, close large programs, and install as much RAM memory chips as you can.


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