Weird DVD-ROM problems

[ochelz]

Ok, when i thought i got my plextor burners working, another problems occur, and its really weird. The burners can burn and it can read stuff. Except video. Everytime i put a data disc of video in the drive, it just freezes up everything and i have to eject the disc out to unfreeze it. And the thing is, it reads everything this else fine. Pictures, mp3s, games, etc. But it just wont read the video. What kind of problem is this?

[Dirk]

Do you have any DVD movie viewing software installed? Power DVD seems to work well.

[mbuc310]

You should not have. Use the MS drivers installed by default during the install of XP.

matt

[ochelz]

I used the drivers on the microsoft windows disc. I didnt even touch the nvidia ide drivers either.

[ochelz]

Any Ideas anyone?

[Guest Spartacus]

The reason is probably that your IDE drives are in PIO mode

instead of DMA.

 

Enter the device manager by right clicking

"my computer" and choosing "properties" and then

"hardware".

 

Double click on the "IDE primary drive" and then "advanced

settings". There you can see the current setting for the master and

the slave drives on the primary IDE channel. There you can select

transfer mode. If it is set at "PIO only", then select "DMA if

available" instead and reboot.

 

If the computer persists on having only PIO after reboot even though

the hard drive is a flashing super-duper ATA133 and transfer mode set

to "DMA if available", then you have to do the following:

 

Remove the primary device in the device manager and reboot! Voilà, now

the harddrive should be running in DMA mode.

 

Repeat on the secondary IDE channel if necessary.

 

EDIT: Here's a very good FREEWARE DVD Player too.

Very helpful to test with if you are having some type of decoder issue.

 

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

 

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