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For clarification, are you experiencing a hard freeze to where you have to manually reset the computer via power button, or are you receiving a BSOD (Blue Screen Of Death)?



Neither actually, I lose keyboard and mouse control but the screen stays as is. I don't have to reboot because once I remove the CD, control returns. Very odd behavior.

Update:
Last night I took home my laptop. It did not freeze and I could play all the tracks. I then installed an old CD only drive. The PC still froze while the disk was inserted.

This leads my to believe that it is probably something within the BIOS of my Dell 4700. Could be the driver, or anything else specific to that box, but in any case...

My curiosity to narrow it down is depleted and I'm just going to rip the tracks on my laptop and copy them to my music library.

With great power comes Awesome irresponsibility.