Dan
    Ran into this problem twice in the last month and both times I was using
a 32x Mitsumi CD Drive and replaced it with a 36x once and a 40x the other
time. The system before replacement would come to ca creeping crawl when the
audio cd was installed. It must be something with the AMD and Win98 that
don't like each other.
Hope this helps.
Fred Moore    A+ Instructor, A+, MCP


>I just put together the following basic system:
>
>AMD K6-2-350 and 64 meg on Gigabyte 5AX MoBo(Rev 4)
>Fujitsu 10.2 Gig HDD,FDD
>Sound Blaster AWE64
>ATI 8 Meg Expert98
>LG 32X CD-rom
>Running Win98
>
>Every thing works great except it hangs when CD audio programs >Dan
>

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