pc troubleshooting

[danmd5]

i have a problem with my pc system. first of all, let me give you an
over all view of my pc desktop machine. i have an AT type computer with a pentium III 600mhz processor. for this kind of PC the power supply is 230 watts. this PC by the way is just assembled to minimize cost.
The motherboard i got is the Soltek 63AV+ model and my memory runs at 256 mb(PC133 type).It also comes with the standard multimedia peripherals- sound card(creative sound blaster),video card(inno3d GE Force2 200mx), cd-rom. there are 2 hard disk installed in my PC(a 4.3GB & 10GB HD). so as you can see my pc is quite loaded.recently i just added a cd writer and here's where the technical problem started. When i play my usual pc games
(i.e. NBA 2001, RED ALERT 2, DIABLO Expansion set), it's very noticeable that the games slow down. previously when the cd writer wasn't yet there, the pc games played perfectly well. could the cd writer affect the normal run of my pc games? hoping to have some technical advice from you guys out there.


best regards,

danmd5

[{anonymous}]

could be that your cd writer is slow, so the game has to keep looking for the file it needs, perhaps u better wait till the experts come in

mike

[Cricket]

Hi danmd5,

What kind of software did you install along with the CD-RW? Is it running in background? Are you running the games from a CD in the new CD-RW?

Are your video drivers up to date? Is DirectX up to date?

Have you tried running your games with the CD-RW disconnected from the IDE cable?

Cricket