My dad's machine had from memory that same drive. Its dead now and while dieing would cause lockup. Windows also thought it worked.
Try another drive.
Bob
Win98SE P3 800 Mhz 256 RAM ; Mitsumi CR4804te CD/RW
This has been a sturdy machine -- but a couple of lock ups and one blue screen happened. could only restart each with the longheld press on the power button.
Now I can not play or explore a CD, though the D drive is visible in My Computer, and device manager sees no problem, functioning normally.
have already dealt the *.vxd's that can cause conflicts.
I searched for newer drivers but there is nothing newer than version 3.0d as far as I can tell.
What else can i check?
Faldown

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