Tiido wrote:

This is a PSU that's constantly trying to power up but failing to do so. PSU itself is a problem or something connected to the PSU has shorted one (or more) of the rails.

Why it would be trying to power up right after I did shutdown in win98 and computer was turned off?

Edit I disconnected the psu from the motherboard and connected another psu temporarily and it turned on fine. So it is either the psu or one of the drives that is the problem.

Who knows but the symptoms suggest a PSU that's trying to power up constantly but failing to do so. Bad capacitors are the most likely issue, rarely it is something else.

Tiido wrote:

Who knows but the symptoms suggest a PSU that's trying to power up constantly but failing to do so. Bad capacitors are the most likely issue, rarely it is something else.

Too bad that the psu failed. It was the only one that I have that had 45A 5V rail.

Baoran wrote:

I managed to make it work with media player classic V6.4.9.1. It's cpu usage is about 50% and setting option to downsample to 44100Hz fixed all audio issues I had.
Downsampling with VLC player didn't fix any audio issues with it, so I will be uninstalling it.
Powedvd works, but has sound issues with awe64 because I could not find option for downsampling and it's cpu usage is at 60% or so it has bit higher cpu usage than media player classic.

I tried this but for some odd reason the sound quality was absolute garbage, and of course this would not help me with games that used DVD content natively.

tpowell.ca wrote:

Baoran wrote:

I managed to make it work with media player classic V6.4.9.1. It's cpu usage is about 50% and setting option to downsample to 44100Hz fixed all audio issues I had.
Downsampling with VLC player didn't fix any audio issues with it, so I will be uninstalling it.
Powedvd works, but has sound issues with awe64 because I could not find option for downsampling and it's cpu usage is at 60% or so it has bit higher cpu usage than media player classic.

I tried this but for some odd reason the sound quality was absolute garbage, and of course this would not help me with games that used DVD content natively.

I would love to put audigy in mine but I feel like my audigy is bit too new for the system when almost all parts are from 2000.

For what it's worth, I was watching DVDs in PowerDVD on a P2 400MHz and a Radeon 7500 without any issues or hiccups. Your system should handle it with absolute ease. The last time I tried it was around 2004. Maybe older PowerDVD versions were better for older systems? Try a PowerDVD version from 2000 or so.

My sound card could do 48khz, so maybe that's important too.

Baoran wrote:

Tiido wrote:

Who knows but the symptoms suggest a PSU that's trying to power up constantly but failing to do so. Bad capacitors are the most likely issue, rarely it is something else.

Too bad that the psu failed. It was the only one that I have that had 45A 5V rail.

So it claimed.

Doesn't the SB Live! have a 48kHz mixer? That would be era appropriate.

Do PowerDVD etc. provide MCI drivers for MPEG2 streams, or just DVD playback?