Hi all,
I just installed a Pioneer blu ray writer on my desktop computer and it's slowing it down horribly. Everything is laggy, even windows take time to open. Firefox which used to open in a second now takes a minute. Games stutter horribly...
My desktop is a high-end build (3770K/7970/SSD/16GB RAM...) so the problem can't be from that, especially as it was running super fast before the BD drive was installed.
Previously I had a DVD-RW drive and had no issues with it.
When I unplugged the BD drive, the computer acted normally again. I tried plugging in only the power to the BD without the SATA cable, the computer was also fast. But when I plugged back both power and SATA to the BD drive, it became slow again.
I noticed that the slow down begins at boot up, not when Windows launches into the desktop. Also, I have a second partition and when I booted into that, it also was slow; so it couldn't have been a software I installed on the first partition.
First I plugged the BD drive in the SATA2 header on my mainboard, then in the SATA3. In both cases the computer slowed down.
Here's the drive I bought:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00A4ZXE40/
Here's my mainboard in case it's relevant:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B009JDTWH6/
What could be causing the problem? Is it the SATA cable? Is the drive defective?
Or is it only software? I didn't install any software, and no discs came with it and I didn't change anything in the BIOS.
I just installed a Pioneer blu ray writer on my desktop computer and it's slowing it down horribly. Everything is laggy, even windows take time to open. Firefox which used to open in a second now takes a minute. Games stutter horribly...
My desktop is a high-end build (3770K/7970/SSD/16GB RAM...) so the problem can't be from that, especially as it was running super fast before the BD drive was installed.
Previously I had a DVD-RW drive and had no issues with it.
When I unplugged the BD drive, the computer acted normally again. I tried plugging in only the power to the BD without the SATA cable, the computer was also fast. But when I plugged back both power and SATA to the BD drive, it became slow again.
I noticed that the slow down begins at boot up, not when Windows launches into the desktop. Also, I have a second partition and when I booted into that, it also was slow; so it couldn't have been a software I installed on the first partition.
First I plugged the BD drive in the SATA2 header on my mainboard, then in the SATA3. In both cases the computer slowed down.
Here's the drive I bought:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00A4ZXE40/
Here's my mainboard in case it's relevant:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B009JDTWH6/
What could be causing the problem? Is it the SATA cable? Is the drive defective?
Or is it only software? I didn't install any software, and no discs came with it and I didn't change anything in the BIOS.
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