> >What the hell are you talking about?!?!
> >> I took the CD out of the CD Rom Drive
He's talking about how much resources some IDE CDROM's hog.
A crummy IDE CDROM with a small cache can knock the hell out of even a
P2's performance. Losing 10-15 fps wouldn't surpise me a bit.
Sounds like whatever he was running was accessing it all the time.