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Yeah...I have a 32 spin Mitsumi aswell...mine is as loud as hell when
accessing...does yours make a clinking/clanking sound?  I was
wondering if this was normal?  I havent had any lockups though....what
is the exact model number of your mitsumi...just curious..thanks.

On 12 Jul 1998 05:22:58 GMT, andre...@aol.com (Andrew5777) wrote:

>I have two problems:
>1)  My CDROM drive is exhibiting odd behavior.  In one program it locked up
>when the program went to access the CDROM.  In another, a game called
>Sanitarium, sometimes the video gets real choppy.  The drive will be reading,
>then will just stop for a couple seconds, start, stop, start, etc. as if it's
>not using the buffer correctly or something, maybe used up it's memory and not
>re-using i (a guess, because I'm not a computer engineer).  It's nerve racking.
> It's a Mitsumi 32X (and it's noisy as hell...sounds like a damn turbine engine
>when it's accessing).  Any ideas?
>2)  The drivers for my Black Magic 3D Voodoo2 video card keep vanishing.  I'll
>shut down my PC (properly), then next time I turn it on, they're gone.  I go to
>the display properties screen, and the Voodoo2 tab is gone, and none of my
>software can detect the card.  Oddly, the card is still listed in the device
>listing and is apparently working properly according to Windows.  I have to
>remove it, re-install the display drivers for the card off the CD, reboot, at
>which point Windows detects the card and asks for some 3Dfx DLL to be installed
>off the same CD, reboot, and generally it's working again.  However, next time
>I use my PC, they're gone again.  My primary card is an ATI Xpert 98 AGP, and
>I'm using the latest release of DirectX 5.  Has anyone else had similar
>experiences with this?  What am I doing wrong?
>
>Thanks in advance.
>-Andrew