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	[quote name="Senor Barborito"][quote name="laudablepuss"][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] The XP disk is not bootable. Feel free to assume that I'm not a moron in the future. This XP Professional disk is a burned copy BUT THAT IS NOT THE ISSUE. My brother used the same disk to install XP on his machine (a KT266 motherboard w/ Athlon) after first installing 98 and it worked beautifully. I tried upgrading from 2000 first, that worked like shit, then I did exactly what he did to install it and it seems to work okay except for this DVD issue.[/quote] Do you mean 'the XP disk as in all XP disks' or 'the XP disk as in MY XP disk'? If the former, you're full of shit. If the latter, purchase or get a better burn - there are some great deals out there on XP Pro, and 'it doesn't work' is part of the price when GETTING IT FOR NOTHING. Also, re: the former - I have two legitimate copies of XP Pro upgrade sitting right here next to me for Veronica and myself - and I went through the exact process I just described and it worked flawlessly with my Pioneer DVD player - and I've used both of V's CD-Roms for various Windows upgrades using this method. Re: the latter - burns of XP Pro Corp edition (in this case also legitimate, oddly enough - my family knows someone with bling bling and five extra licenses on their SVLA) are bootable, THANKS FOR PLAYING TRY AGAIN. --SB Also, if you're not installing a clean copy of your OS, there really isn't much point in installing to begin with. I don't know about you but I don't care for starting off my amazing software journey by throwing myself off a cliff.[/quote]