DVD Writer Takes Ages To Read

Morning all.

after my rebuild, it seems my DVD/CD player, ASUS DRW 24F1ST, is very slow off the mark when i stick a CD or DVD in it ~ for example, i've just put my mouse driver disc in and it took about 20 seconds or so to actually fire up and read it after i closed the tray. the drive doesn't show up in my Explorer tree until playing, but i think that's a setting somewhere about not showing inactive drives or such, but i've been through Device Manager and the drivers etc are up to date - anything else i can look at?
i should add it reads/plays fine when up and running, it's just the slow start that's an issue.

TIA

Two possibilities:

1. Remove the Asus E-Green utility, not needed, optical drives have a standard Windows driver.
It maybe slowing the start as that is the point where there is a peak in power demands.

2. Possibly dirty optics. Not an easy job cleaning those with that type of drive.

hi,
don't have that installed, and i'd assume the dirty optics would cause read/play issues too. this is just a case of putting a disc in and it being 20 secs or so until the player decides to do something.