On 6 Aug 2005 at 19:25, Amy Ledford wrote:

> .... The PC is a very old Windows 98SE machine, made by Gateway2000,
> before they started calling it Gateway. It has only a 2G HDD, and 48MB
> of RAM, with a 133Mhz processor, which I believe is the original
> Pentium. It has only 2 drives, the 3 1/2 Floppy, and the DVD-Rom.

> .... I do not believe the drive was ever used as a DVD drive, but only
> as a CD drive.


  Leaving aside, for the moment, whether this is enough RAM and a fast
enough CPU to play DVDs, it would be kind of strange to replace the CD-ROM
drive originally provided with the machine with a DVD drive without
performing other upgrades as well.
  Does the Device Manager (tab within the System control panel applet) show
the make and model of this drive?  I'm strongly suspecting that this is not
a DVD drive at all, just a CD-ROM drive.

David Gillett

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