>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.

I don't know about your system, but I talked to my dealer's Tech
support, and they told me to disable DMA usage by the CDROM. Once I
disable that everything works fine, I guest there is some memory conflict
on my system.
Goto control panel, system, device manager tab, highlight CDROM, click
properties, click setting tab and uncheck DMA.

Dan

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