Okay here is whats happening. I just built a new system the other day (Asus mobo CUSL2-C/815EP chipset). I loaded the mobo chipset drivers right after I loaded Win98SE. The CD-ROM drive worked fine the first day, but the second day when I tried loading some programs onto the computer I get a blue screen saying that the CD-ROM needs cleaning!! How the heck can it need cleaning if it is brand new?! Anyway, after I got back to the desktop I get a GPF when the drive tried reading the CD. I had this problem before on another computer and it was caused by a faulty CD-ROM drive. I tried the CD in another computer and had no problems, so it isn't the CD. So what I ended up doing is putting an old CD-ROM drive in the new computer, BUT another thing I want to know is why is the drive taking so long reading the CD (it did the same thing on the first CD-ROM drive as well)? I mean the drive starts and stops a few times before it brings up on the screen what is on the CD. This is a 48X CD-ROM drive and the other faulty one is a 50X. Could this be something in the BIOS that I over looked, or what could it be?

Thanks in advance