Having more and more trouble with the "new" machine.

Started here with losing DVD drive
http://vnerdkb.blogspot.com/2008/12/home-gateway-losing-dvd-drive-letter.html

Now the HD locks up for 1 to 15 minutes, causing apps (Word, Excel, IE) to hang at startup for that long, then finally start. Event viewer has all kinds of errors:

The device, \Device\Ide\iaStor0, did not respond within the timeout period.

The device 'Optiarc DVD RW AD-7203S' (IDE\CdRomOptiarc_DVD_RW_AD-7203S_________________1.06____\4&b343978&0&0.2.0) disappeared from the system without first being prepared for removal.

Gateway wants me to send it in, but without my 2nd drive in there. This morning, unplugged that drive to see how it fares before sending in. (Without that drive, if all ok, what's the point of sending it in?). First boot, wouldn't boot (thought I unplugged the wrong disk - nope)

The following boot-start or system-start driver(s) failed to load:
cdrom

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