Cd-rw problem

[kewei50]

i need help....
i juz fixed up a new rig but my cd-rw slows everything down in the beginning.it's so slow tat it took me 5 mins to get to the win2k startup screen n it juz hangs there

Athlon XP 1800+
MSI KT333-Ultra2
1x 256 PC2700 333 Kingston
Elsa Gladiac GeForce 2 MX 400

n 1 more thing.....
when i shut down my OS
it goes to the 'it is safe to shut down your computer now' screen
it doesn't power off by itself.(i'm using a atx casing)

any help would be grateful

 

[Greeno]

How have you got your IDE's (Master,Slave etc) Set up ?

 

[kewei50]

primary IDE master n slave - my 2 HD
secondary IDE master - cd-rom
secondary IDE slave - suppoesed to be my cd-rw

worked on my old rig though......

 

[Greeno]

And it's definatly set up to be a Slave ?, It's not on Cable Select or anything ?

 

[kewei50]

tried changing my cd-rom to slave
n cd-rw to master
still the same.........

 

[svtcobra]

did you try a HD/CD HD/CD setup? Make sure the CD's are both slaves.

 

[Mictlantecuhtli]

Are you forcing IDE controller to use Ultra DMA in CD-drives (in BIOS)? Some drives don't like that. If that's the case, set DMA to 'automatic'.