I have formated at the start of recieving this laptop
Uhm... it installs and reads fine just when playing DVD MOVIES or any .avi or I guess files that require consistant streaming.
But installing software or reading mp3/data files......
I have athe 7400 Go with 256mb ram and 2gigs of Physical memory.
When I first went to device manager since I read upon another place to change from pio to dma. I did that and still same...
I have a Dell M1210 and I notice everytime I play DVD or CD movies with either Windows Media Player or Power DVD. the play back is very laggy. In other words... it read and play but then gets lagged. When it does, the drive spins up...