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by AnotherGoodName 1667 days ago
If you were still in that era i'd say make sure the drive is in DMA and not PIO mode!

The drives would operate in a fallback mode called PIO unless you installed specific drivers for the DVD drive. The symptoms you describe sound like this. 1.6Ghz was definitely enough for MPEG2 decoding.