laudablepuss wrote:

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.