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Optical causing system to hang?

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I recently upgraded to Vista, im not too sure if what i did was a good idea, only wanted it for upgraded DirectX.

I'm in the process of getting everything reinstalled. everything basic is installed and ready to go, so i move on to my games.

When i load a disc my windows explorer and every system window or tool hangs and wont respond.

programs will continue to hang until either the disc is removed (all programs may not close) or my computer is restarted.

At one point the splash screen for COD4 came up for me to choose to install it. Its .exe went to configure windows installer to do the rest. and thats when it started happening.

I've ran a check disk on both internal HDDs and its found nothing. Is there something that could be tested to find out what the problem might be? Im not finding anything on the event viewer either so no help there. Maybe there will be some help here.
 
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make sure you have updated SATA drivers installed. check if you're in IDE compatibility mode or AHCI mode in the BIOS.

its also considered rude to bump your own posts without waiting a day or so... people do live in different time zones to you.
 
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Audio Device(s) ASUS Xonar Essence XTS w/ Astro A40 5.8 wireless
Power Supply Corsair AX850 850W >90% EFF@300w-650w ~89%@Full Load
Software Windows 7 Ultimate x64
is it not all in real time though?

just trying to get this figured out. as fast as i can.
 
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System Name Mace Windu
Processor Intel i7 2600K @ 4.8GHz Vcore @ 1.4
Motherboard ASUS WS Revolution P67
Cooling Zalman CNPS9900 MAX
Memory 4x2GB GSkill RipJaw DDR3 1600MHz @ 7-8-7-24
Video Card(s) SAPPHIRE VAPOR-X R9 280X TRI-X
Storage 128GB Crucial C300 SSD (system), 600GB WD Velociraptor (Games), 250GB External (Everything Else)
Display(s) ASUS 24" LED LCD 2ms
Case Corsair 650D
Audio Device(s) ASUS Xonar Essence XTS w/ Astro A40 5.8 wireless
Power Supply Corsair AX850 850W >90% EFF@300w-650w ~89%@Full Load
Software Windows 7 Ultimate x64
it seemed to be a bad stick of ram.

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