I'm getting confused about exactly what you're doing. You're running Geexbox on exactly the same hardware – motherboard, cpu, drive, and everything else – that gave you smooth playback in Windows XP? The xp im talking about is on the 700us while the 1675 1692 is win98 laptops. I never tried xp on …

Just tried geexbox-0.90-1.iso on it and its worse its like 2fps.. and about 2inchs of the screen on bottom is gobbled.. When i get the chance i will either pop my old 1692 drive into this one which i have to take most of the laptop apart to even do that.. Or just put in a bigger hdd and try playing …

Sorry guys not used to typing on phone.. But yea im not sure if the dvd is on its way out but than again the compaq 700us did the same thing when it was on windows 98 but is fine on xp. Nope the dvd is pretty quiet after it loads, I just don't get it with the same software the 1692 had which i …

Yep both are on dma in properties, Will try the 4 in 1 drivers. I just tried the drivers on that site you link and still have the same issue:( I just don't understand this should be playing dvds smoothly... Cause the 1692 didn't have a issue doing it which is pretty much the same hardware.. I …

So i wanted to get back into dos/98 gaming so i bought a compaq presario 1675 laptop on ebay to replace my compaq presario 1692 which died on me a few weeks ago that i bought brand new back in the day... which was great for dos/98 gaming and has the ess sound card which works perfect in dos, But the …