DVD Burner problem with P965 Platinum

I have had on going issue with my DVD burner. When i try to play or esp burn a DVD the whole PC slows down and i am unable to open or run any other applications.  The Burner is connected via IDE cable and i have tried 2 other DVD Burners with all the same result.  When i play a DVD the picture jitters and when i burn a DVD the burn rate is about 10 x slower than my other PC.  It comes across as if there is a data transfer problem, not sure though.
Could this be a bios issue or maybe a faulty IDE port on the MOB ???
My system
MSI P965 Platinum
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600
2 x 1GB DDR2 800mhz RAM
Leadtek 8800GTS 640mb G/C
W.D SATA II 320GB HDD
ASUS DRW-1612BL DVD Burner

I would also like to add that, this fix has also fixed my Lan input port.  I built this PC about 3 weeks ago and from day one the Lan connection would come up with that "Limited or no connectivity" issue.  So I thought it was a faulty Lan port so I went and bought a PCI Lan card to fix that issue.
But as soon as i applied this fix, I noticed the network connection popped up so I tried it out and the damn thing now works.
Extremely Happy 
cheers

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