SONY CD-RW CRX175A1

[SkylessKnight]

Everytime I put in a disc (this is a clean install of XP) it can't read more than 3 or 4 MBs from the disc and it locks up the computer. The mouse won't move, and you have to manually turn it off. It's an AMD Duron (grr) 1.3 board w/256 MB SD RAM. any suggestions for meh?
THANKS for reading, and thanks for replying, if you do. lol.

 

[interdaemon]

It could be the driver for your CD-ROM, it may lock because it runs out of memory, I have seen it happen in DOS with the CD drivers loaded, but not in XP. Maybe try removing and then adding the cdrom again from the device manager.

 

[SkylessKnight]

Alright, I tried that, and the computer still can't read from the CD, or from the floppy drive - but when I before and during installation they both had no problem. When the computer freezes the HDD led doesn't go off until restart... no one's heard of this?