Slow CD Access

I'm running Win2k and my system slows down to a crawling pace when I try to read a CD. When I put the CD in the CD-ROM, it takes almost a minute for Windows Explorer to read the CD. I've tried three different CD drives (two 40x and one 32x) and they all behave the same way.

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I'm running Win2k and my system slows down to a crawling pace when I try to read a CD. When I put the CD in the CD-ROM, it takes almost a minute for Windows Explorer to read the CD. I've tried three different CD drives (two 40x and one 32x) and they all behave the same way. The IDE transfer is set to DMA if possible. Anyone have an idea about what's going on and how to fix it? Thanks.
 
Jason

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It does take a while on both my rigs to see a CD-ROM, but not a full minute.
Make sure the chipset IDE drivers are installed in you system. That might help somewhat, and then again it may be something you have to live with.
 
Also, you may want to take a trip into BIOS and see if the DMA is set to the maximum (i.e. 4)