Tech Support: DVD-Drive problems...

A2597

Alllrighty, I'm getting fed up with this drive...
the drive I have is a Toshiba SD-M1612, not the one I ordered, but it DID work, so I didn't call up and complain.

well...it worked right after I put my PC together. played DVDs no problem.

didn't watch any DVDs for quite awhile, say a month, tried again, and it wouldn't work...By not working I mean sound was VERY choppy, and there was no video (The menu would show up so long as there was no movment in the menu).

Audio CDs, and CD Roms work no problem

things I've figured out:
its NOT my sound card. compleatly uninstalled the drivers for it, same errors.
its NOT my video card, uninstalled drivers for that as well, and updated them...

soooit has to be the drive...but what? *sigh*

Any suggestions guys?

Running WinXP Pro, latest Direct X, Geforce 3 Ti 200 @ 128MB, 512 megs DDR, AMD AThlon XP 1800+ @ 1.1 ghz.

thanks!

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Biggles

You wouldn't happen to be running WinDVD 2.x, would you?

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Bekenn

It's most likely a problem in your player software.

Although... you've checked to make sure that the DMA box is checked for your drive in Device Manager?

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A2597

Finally got it...
seven different players later...

SHEESSSSH that was insane... seven players before I got one that worked!

thanks guys [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/smile.gif[/img]

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[b]Sanfam: [/b]"And Drazi didn't like it one bit.-
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JackN

Just out of curiousity... What player finally worked?

I'm having a bit of a fit with my "Lost in Space" DVD...

Everything else has ALWAYS worked in this drive...

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A2597

Power DVD

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[b]whitestar90: [/b]"it would give the computer a heartattack just looking at it" -
[b]Sanfam: [/b]"And Drazi didn't like it one bit.-
[b]Mr.Bungle: [/b][i]"So that's where the forum went..."[/i]-
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[b][i]ahhh, the good old days of HTML.[/i][/b]

Biggles

I've never had any trouble with PowerDVD other than the squeaky sound system in the version I have. WinDVD, in my experience, does [b]not[/b] play well with WinXP. I get exactly the symptoms that A#s described on most of my DVDs.

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Entil'Zha

[quote]Originally posted by Biggles:
[b]I've never had any trouble with PowerDVD other than the squeaky sound system in the version I have. WinDVD, in my experience, does [b]not[/b] play well with WinXP. I get exactly the symptoms that A#s described on most of my DVDs.

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If you want the best player possible, You should get a hardware player, i've got a hardware mpeg decoder for my dvd drive, and i've never had a single problem, plus it outputs Dolby Digital 5.1 and DTS via digital coax.
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Biggles

A hardware player is not even in the range of possibilities unless it is not region locked.

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Entil'Zha

[quote]Originally posted by Biggles:
[b]A hardware player is not even in the range of possibilities unless it is not region locked.

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AFAIK you can get region hacks for them. But like i said, I've had this hardware decoder for 4 years now, and have never had a single bit of a problem.

Ranger1

I'm surprised your player wasn't bundled with powerdvd unless it is an OEM driver, my liteon 16x dvd came with it. Powerdvd IMHO is the best player out there. I've tried windvd, wmp and a few others and I hated all of them.

As for your squeaky sound Biggles, check in your audio properties and make sure Auxilary is muted. If it isn't it tends to leave a low volume high pitched background noise. It happened on mine and I fixed it by muting it. Not sure if it is the same prob you have.

[This message has been edited by Ranger1 (edited 10-29-2002).]

Biggles

No, I've check that sort of thing and already have my aux muted. It's definitely a problem with PowerDVD, but I think it's because I have quite an old version.

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[url="http://www.minbari.co.uk/log12.2263/"]Never eat anything bigger than your own head.[/url]
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