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[quote name="Senor Barborito"][quote name="laudablepuss"]I can't get a DVD player to work on my crappy computer. It's an Athlon 1800 system on a KT333 motherboard (a Gigabyte 7rvx or something). I've loaded Windows XP Professional, but it was the upgrade version so I had to load windows 98 first. I shoulda checked to see if the DVD player worked in 98 but I didn't. Anyway, whenever I put a CD in, it first never runs the autorun file and it second gives me an error "Part of the readprocessmemory or writeprocessmemory could not be completed" (or something like that) if I click on an executable file, such as the setup file for a game. I can browse the CD, but that's all. Sometimes the player icon in My Computer will be a generic icon and sometimes it will be the icon for the game. I have a second DVD player (this one is a Sony, the above DVD player is a Pacific Digital) that does the same shit except when I try to run an executable it tells me that "[whatever program] is not a valid win32 application." Any thoughts? It's just killing me that I can't get this to work. I should mention that I was able to install both windows 98 and then windows XP using the Pacific Digital DVD player. So I suppose it has something to do with the OS.[/quote] How to install an upgrade version of Win2k or WinXP from Win98: a) Make a boot floppy b) boot up using boot floppy c) format harddisk d) reboot, go into BIOS, and set system to boot off of CD player e) save changes to BIOS, insert Windows XP upgrade CD, reboot f1) the Win2k/WinXP CD will now boot, and ask you for your Win98/ME/2K/XP CD - insert the appropriate CD and tada! OR f2) If you have an OEM Windows CD (ie HP rescue disks) that does not work for these purposes because it is not a standard copy of Windows, talk to your local software pirate/other family member who does have a pirated or legitimate copy of one of the necessary - it doesn't matter whether the scanned CD is legitimate or not, all that matters is that your XP upgrade CD itself is legitimate. To sum: do a clean install of XP by booting off the install CD, duh. --SB[/quote]