First post, by ChrisDOS
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! 😀