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I have did more testing and have found this out.

I can play VCD's in my DVDrom and the modem does not stop responding, I can also put regular cd's in my DVDrom and they can be copied from or stuff installed and the modem want mess up.

But I stick a DVD in the DVDrom and use it in anyway it will ...

I have done alot more testing...

I have burned cd's, I have did videocapture and played games and none of this messed with my modem are caused this weird problem.

It seems only my DVDrom does this. I cant use my DVDrom in any way what so ever are it causes my modem to stop working???
As soon as I ...

There are no conflicts and there is no crashing.
Everything is working fine until I use my DVDrom... then my modem stops responding till I stop using the DVDrom!



Originally posted by Technoid
IRQ is okay, what about I/O address or DMA conflicts?
Have we ruled out drivers?
Duh (slapping myself ...

The DVDrom is not on the raid. And I can copy files to and from my raid drives and it does not cause this.

Originally posted by zxc47
sounds like to me there is a bug in your raid setup. Try disable your raid in you CMOS. and see if still does it.

There are no IRQ conflicts.

Originally posted by Technoid
Sounds like a resource conflict

I have a AthlonXP 1800+, 512mb ram and use PowerDVD.
Have tried all the DVD software players and it just does it.

Also does it when I just copy something from the DVD to my Harddrive.

Originally posted by zxc47
do you run a decoder card or software to decode the DVD?you may need more ram

No the IDE is on 15 and the COM port 1 is using 4.

Thanks for the advice! And I'm a big fan of win98se.

I have no spyware on my HD and use XPantispy and AtomicXP.
And the DVDrom is not shared are used by anything.
I like PowerDVD for playing my DVD's.
This is just freaky! I can set here and have a download going and then start a DVD and watch it ...

Have tried several, just seems when I use my DVDrom it makes my modem not work. Stop the DVD and the modem works.

I have this new computer that works great. It has ISDN and the modem is a serial port type. And its a 3com, like I said everything works great.

But... I got a DVDrom drive for the PC and I noticed when I play a DVD and I'm connected to the internet and downloading my internet connection stops ...

Just read and then please contact your Congressman!

http://bpdg.blogs.eff.org/archives/000113.html

http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/7/9/17842/90350



Please use this link to contact your Congressman and lets all fight to stop this.
http://www.house.gov/writerep/



for the love of God I ...

I was running Win98SE with all the upddates, and I tried everything. I had uptimes of almost 2weeks but it seemed these past months that I was just pushing it to hard I guess and Win98SE could not handle it... I would get this thing where I was connected to the internet but could not surf webpages ...

I to had this problem. Its your winsock(wsock32.dll) or should I say TCP/IP stack getting corrupted.
Its like you cant open anymore sockets. You get server not found or DNS errors.
I think my problem was caused by ZoneAlarm Pro .... I have formated and reinstalled still had the problem. I ...

I cant find a online retailer that sales 1-way cable modems. Can someone please help me find one.
Thanks for your time!