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while installing games (newer games) my computer freezes so i must restart it evrything else works fine,it drives me nuts! please help! hdd 40gb asus p4s8x-x nvidia geforce4 mx440 64mb with agp8x direct x 9.0b

Name: dannyboy
Date: November 28, 2003 at 08:09:05 Pacific

Reply:

it may be due to your cd-rom struggling to read the copy protection on some newer CD's. First thing to try is disabling DMA mode on your CD-ROM when you want to install something. I couldn't install Vice City until I did this. You can also try updating your CD-ROM's firmware, and if you have a second optical drive see if that is any better. Good luck.

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thanks but the problem remains, any ideas

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