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Windows 98SE - DVD Troubles (System freezes)

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First post, by ChrisDOS

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Hey guys,

I recently put a generic DVD-ROM drive (from around 2002) into my old PII Compaq Deskpro (1998) running Windows 98SE (beause why not? 😀 )

The drive is jumpered as slave on the 2nd IDE Channel and as far as I can see the system recognizes it, since it plays and reads CD-ROMs perfectly fine.
Device manager doesn't give me any warnings, identifies it as a 16x DVD drive and lets me put it into DMA mode.

However, as soon as I put in an actual DVD (data or movie) the system freezes / locks up after like 3 seconds and I'm forced to perform a cold reboot.
Now i've read that DVD drives use seperate read-heads for DVD and CD playback respectively so of course I could just have a faulty drive. But wouldn't that just cause it to do... well, nothing when a DVD is inserted? (instead of producing a freeze)

Maybe someone knows what could be the issue here, any help is very much appreciated! 😀

Reply 1 of 2, by yawetaG

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Might be as simple as that the DVD drive is too new for the system (although it usually is the ones from 2005 or later that cause weird behaviour...)

Reply 2 of 2, by ChrisDOS

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Thanks for the answer but I found the solution!

Turns out it was the program CDSlow (which I use for reducing the noise/speed of my CD-ROM drive on that computer, since it's also pretty "new" and fast and way too loud).

I hadn't set any speed options for DVDs on the new drive, therefore the system froze. After I did everything works fine 😀

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