Hello Richard.
Wish I was down in Naples. Better than the Italian version, and I like that one lots!
Think my current poorly cycle is mostly due to the arrival of AOL 8!
AMD Duron 850, ECS K7S5A, SIS 0735 chipset, 512Mb DDR ram, NVIDIA GeForce2 MX100/200 (32MB).
Samsung DVD-ROM SD-612S, drive version SB05, DMA enabled. It is the secondary master.
The refusal to play DVDs seemed to coincide with the CMOS problem. It played them fine before. I have progressed as far as getting the first 30 secs of DVD play back, and then it crashes.
Windows ME was a fresh install. Will "remove" from device manager be any use? In BIOS it is set to auto detect the drive. By deleting, and letting windows detect on reboot, is this similar to when it detects new hardware eg printers/scanners etc? Might try to test some other playback software, as still awaiting support from Cyberlink.
I am building up to re-flashing the BIOS, as it currently only supports 1.4 Ghz CPu, the latest BIOS supports Athlon XPs @ 2+. However it looks formidable to me at present. And I am yellow like custard.
Thanks!