I haven't been able to find an answer to my question, so hopefully you guys can help. Whenever I burn a DVD or CD, my computer slows down (every movement becomes choppy), and it TAKES almost 3 times as long to burn discs (it took over 30 minutes to burn a CD when the speed was supposed to be at 48x). I figured it was a problem with my burner (An ASUS IDE), so I switched to a SATA Samsung burner. Unfortunately, I'm still having this problem. I have run scandisk, virus SCANS, & spyware scans, and have come up with nothing. Has anyone else encountered this problem? If so, How can it be fixed?How much RAM?
What Operating System?
Are you burning large files to the disk?WINDOWS XP
1 gig of ram
p4 3.4 ghzand the file size doesn't really matter, I have this problem weather I'm burning small music files or large DVD files.Hmmm... So it's not a problem with your processor or your RAM or OS.

Have you scanned for viruses and malware in safe mode?
Are the drivers up-to-date?What burning program ? ?
How many apps are on in the tray area ? ?
What brand of media ? ?im using nero 7 & DVD Fab Platinum

around 5 icons

memorex dvds

verbatam cds.

its what i normally use, that why im confused that all of the sudden this started happeningAre both burners on IDE2 ? ?
Sounds like they may have dropped into PIO mode which is the slowest.
Although this usually happens to hard drives it can happen on optical drives as well
To check it go to Gontrol Panel/System/Hardware/Device Manager...
Right click the Secondary IDE Channel and select Properties.
It should be set to UDMA if present or DMA under advanced.My ASUS was IDE, the Samsung is SATA, and its the only one I have installed right now. I am also using a SATA hard drive as a backup for my music and videos. my primary hard drive is still IDE. I checked the primary and secondary IDE channels. they're both set to DMA (If available). The Primary however shows that it is still on PIO mode even though the setting is set to DMA (If available). As i suspected. The easy fix for this is to return to Device Manager and right click the Primary IDE channel and select Remove or un-install...
You will recieve a warning message...ignore it.
Re-boot the machine, let it completely finish loading everything and then travel back to Device Manager. It should now show the Primary IDE channel back in DMA mode. If not Post back and we'll have to do some editing in the registry.

The most common cause of this is disk errors. Have you been getting any re-boots and or BSOD's? ?
If so you should run chkdsk /r on that IDE drive ASAP.

Let us know...that did it. everything is burning smoothly and speedy again. Thanks a lot for your help! You're more than Welcome, BILLY...stop by anytime.

Meantime make sure you DLoad and run those diagnostics form the HDD manuf. site...