P965 neo-f, DVD-ROM is really slow

Specs:
Intel E6300 Core 2 Duo (no over-clocking)
MSI P965 Neo-f (latest bios, v1.50)
1Gb DDR2 RAM
ATI X800PRO 256mb
160GB HDD
DVD-ROM
I'm having a few problems with this new set up. All optical drives that I have used with this computer are REALLY slow. I'm not exactly sure what is causing this problem but I do know that in the Device Manager this IDE drive is currently in PIO mode and will not change. I have a exact same DVD-Rom in another PC which is running in Ultra DMA 5 mode. Does anyone know how to fix this?

I had exactly the same problem on a friends system I just finished putting together but finally got it working.
On one of the first couple of Windows boots I installed Jmicron "RAID" drivers from the motherboard CD, no I'm not running RAID, basically I had everything set up and going when I noticed DVD installs were taking forever and then realised that any sort of data transfer from optical was taking forever, yep PIO stuck on in device manager.
Reboot, enter bios, under the SATA/RAID PIO and DMA settings in the BIOS change the bottom setting from IDE to Disable, boot to windows.
Obviously anything on IDE are now not working (don't ask me how you get around this if you don't have Windows on SATA  ) uninstall Jmicron bizzo from add remove programs, reboot, enter BIOS and switch that setting back to IDE, reboot, Windows should detect and install and everything should be peachy, hope it works for you cause this one had me tearing my hair out 

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    Quote from: NovJoe on 03-July-09, 21:57:34
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      http://koti.mbnet.fi/~prc/temp/Speedfan_temp.JPG
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      http://koti.mbnet.fi/~prc/temp/speedfan_fans.JPG
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      http://koti.mbnet.fi/~prc/temp/speedfan_speeds.JPG
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      http://koti.mbnet.fi/~prc/temp/speedfan_advanced.JPG
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      http://koti.mbnet.fi/~prc/temp/speedfan_noload.JPG
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      http://koti.mbnet.fi/~prc/temp/speedfan_load.JPG
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      http://koti.mbnet.fi/~prc/temp/speedfan_manual.JPG
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