LG DVD ROM

A weird thing happened yesterday. I tried to watch a DVD on my computer
using Kaffeine. The sound was terrible, skipping to silence in some
places. Then Kaffeine crashed.

So I booted into Windows, and the same thing happened except that it
crashed the whole machine. In fact it powered down, and wouldn't start
up again for awhile. This really freaked me out because I couldn't
imagine what could do that.

I tried the movie DVD in my laptop and everything was fine.

I have wondered about this DVD ROM for some time. Almost anything I try
to burn in it comes out bad. What would cause it to shut my machine down
though? I thought it might be a heat problem, but don't know why it
would generate so much heat.

I run Mandrake 2007.0 Free, AMD 2400+, 767 mg RAM.

Does anyone have any idea why this would happen?

Eve
Received on Sun Jan 7 12:22:22 2007