Jinn

So.. I've got a shitty old DVD player drive, a 24x HP CDWriter CD-burner, a 200 GB IDE hard-drive and a 60 GB IDE hard-drive. Master-slave, Master-slave. They're all taken up.

I've also got 1GB PC3200 Corsair RAM and an X800 XL.

Now -- the question. Playing games, or watching MPEG3 movies on my computer is not a problem. Lately, however.. I'll be watching a DVD movie (straight from the box -- not burned) and my computer will stall out. The hard-drive light will be going crazy, enough though I have nothing running in the background. It makes the movie pause for 8 or 10 seconds (really annoying when it happens every minute or so..)

Is this the IDE ribbons being in contention for resources? If so, how can I solve the problem...? I'm tempted to scrap the two optical drives and buy one huge DVD/CD burning/reading combo, but I don't want the problem to happen again.

Anybody got a clue?

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