dodgy dvd/cd drive

[gryffe]

I think the dvd/cd drive on my new pc is a bit dodgy. any time i put
a cd in the drive (either a game, or music cd) it causes live radio streams,
or music I am playing back via Windows Media Player or Napster to skip like
crazy. Also, anything I have copied to CD seems to take longer to copy than previous cd drives using the same speed. another thing i have noticed is that when the drive is in use the mouse pointer is either very unsteady, or freezes altogether. also when i am typing text the text does not appear on the screen at the same rate as i am typing it, there is a 2 or 3 second delay before what i have types appears on the screen.
is there anything I can do to fix this, looks like some fine tuning required? is there a test that can be run to check it is functioning properly, or
any tools to check it out?


thanks

[ski]

Make sure the CD/DVD player is configured for DMA(direct memory access).

If it is, then there may be stuff running in the background that's hogging the CPU. See if a clean boot fixes things.

If not, then update your AV program, and do a virus search.
Also, update and run Ad-aware and Spybot to remove any spyware.

If no luck, then run Hijack This, and post its results.

[gryffe]

Make sure the CD/DVD player is configured for DMA(direct memory access).


thanks for that -one of the secondary ide channels shows that the "current transfer mode" is PIO Mode. I cannot change it to DMA. Could this be the problem, and if so how do I fix it?

Thanks

[ski]

You're welcome.

See if anything here fixes it:
http://winhlp.com/WxDMA.htm

[gryffe]

thanks ski- this worked a treat. it reset to ultra DMA and drive now working normally

thanks a million

[ski]

Good to hear that you solved the problem.