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GeneralOld Hardware and Windows 98 SE Pin
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J. Dunlap7-May-03 7:32
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This sounds like a bad CD-ROM drive (and I've had experience with those!). Buy a new one. They only cost $25 these days.

I installed Windows 98 with a certain CD-ROM drive, and it did fine. But when I got into Windows for the first time, it wouldn't even finish booting up, ever. So I tested the CD-ROM drive on a different computer that had no history of boot problems, and it stopped booting up whenever the CD-ROM was attached. Then I switched to another old CD-ROM. It let windows boot up, but it had the annoying habit you mentioned - the blue screen telling you it can't read from the CD-ROM. It also would sometimes go "nuts" and not stop reading from the drive when it was told to, continuing until the computer was turned off.

Only one other thing - there can be problems if the CD-ROM drive is in DOS compatibility mode.


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