OK before I yack on here is my system specs

Asus A8N-SLI premuim
Athlon xp 64 3200+ W Zalman cooler
Dual EGA gforce 6600 gts in SLI W Zalman coolers
Soundblaster XFI extreme music ( This card rocks )
Both hard drives are SATA
One WD Raptor 36 gig eventually for Linux, used for storage now
One WD Caviar 16 250 gig drive , Boot drive one big partition
Two DVd burners
Primary master is Pioneer DVR 109
Secondary Master is a Pioneer DVD 110D
Antec 550w power supply
OS is Windows XP pro sp2

I have no problem booting to my windows cd, Once I get windows installed it seams to take forever for my dvr 109 drive to recognize that I have placed a driver cd into it ( Another drive on the same cable would not even recognized the Asus drive cd )
If it does it is very slow to read the cd , I may try another ribbon cable, I am using the 80 wire cables for both drives
Is this a controller issue with the nvidia chipset or a drive issue, I have had problems with nvidias ide driver in the past so I don't load it ( Disk Io errors )
I am almost thinking of trying a DFI board because my video cards need the spacing with the zalman coolers , Maybe DFI builds a better board, and I did not have this problem on my Gigabyte board, I had to discontinue using that board since I installed the Zalman coolers
Anyone got ideas, should I try that game fix ?