cd rom slows down!!!!! Pleasse help!!!

[djgpenny]

I am running a 36X cd rom as secondary master with a 6.5 maxtor hd attached. both are at dma, and I also have a scsi yamaha cd-rw. I am running on a 400 mhz amd k6-2 computer with win 98 & 64 megs of ram. When I try to play Civilization 2, and a mulitmedia scene comes up or just another scene where you speak to another country leader, it slows down to a super slow crawl. If I try to pull up another program, it takes at least 20 secs, the mouse cursor moves quickly, but everything else goes really slow. If I wait for a few minutes, then things will be back to normal, but it sucks!!! Is it the cd-rw, possibly wrong bios settings, or something else? This is the first incident I have come across. Please help me!!!!

[welsh wizard]

Try putting your hard drives on one port as master and slave then put your CDrom reader as master on secondary port, make sure your scsi writer has a drive letter higher than your cdreader.
WW

[This message has been edited by welsh wizard (edited 12-07-1999).]

[Apostle 83]

You say you try to pull up another program and it slows to a super crawl. That makes me think it is not a prob w/the cd rom drive, but a problem with low system resources. Also, over time, windows registry becomes cluttered, causing the system to run slower.

Are you sure your drives have dma caps?