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by phil 1 view

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I just installed a DVD Recorder into my computer and when the computer boots; it takes a good few minutes to get all the way into windows. Even then everything just drags. The burner is the only device on the cable; and is set to master. It is detected in the bios properly and there are plenty of system resources. Any ideas???

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by statykserver

As for the booting you can set the boot priority to the hard drive as the first device to boot from. Your system dragging probably has nothing to do with t he dvd recorder, but maybe the software you installed for it? Maybe try undoing the changes you made to the system and see if everything works to your satisfaction then add the changes one by one testing between changes to find the culprit. Good Luck

by glyall

first do you install a program like InCD. If you do you should see an icon on the toolbar by the clock.
check your startup dircectory.

Also check for any adware or spyware on your PC.
They can slow down the startup.
use Ad-Aware SE or SpyBots-SD to check for them
and use often.
You said the your DVD is the only device on the ribbon, but is on the primary or secondary.
If on the primary ribbon it will slow your booting. It should be on the secondary ribbon.

Good Luck

by g.brown

Just as a test, try setting your HDD as the slave and using it on the same cable as your HDD.

The master should go at the end and the slave in the middle.

http://www.mikeshardware.com/howtos/howto_connect_ide_hd.html

If this works OK then there could be a problem with the cable you were using...possibly even the secondary IDE channel.

If it is still slow, do you have another machine you can test the DVD drive in, or do you have another DVD drive you can use to test in this machine??

by rindi1

First verify that the it is the DVD Recorder which slows down your PC. Remove the recorder and reboot. If your PC is still too slow, are you using windows XP as OS? Probably you recently installed the Servicepack 2. I've had an issue on one PC where SP2 slowed it down that much it couldn't be used. Whenever I uninstalled SP2, the PC worked OK. After trying almost every tweak I could think of without any bettering I ended up reinstalling the whole system. Now the PC works correctly with SP2 installed.

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