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DVD problem

Jimi-Spandex · 2001-09-16 21:03:19

I have a creative 5x dvd drive and am having severe problems playing dvds, for example when attempting to play dvds the computer will usually freeze before it even gets to the main menu, the computer will totally freeze responding to neither keyboard or mouse and can only be shutdown or rebooted by using the power button,…

16-09-2001 10:03pm

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Jimi-Spandex

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I have a creative 5x dvd drive and am having severe problems playing dvds, for example when attempting to play dvds the computer will usually freeze before it even gets to the main menu, the computer will totally freeze responding to neither keyboard or mouse and can only be shutdown or rebooted by using the power button,

i have a 1.1ghz tbird, 256 mb ram win98se, have tried using both cool dvd and power dvd with the exact same fault, when i use soft dvd, i will just get a fatal exception this is really getting frustrating, also i also have problems when i attept to rip files from the dvd, however i'm fairly sure this is for a different reason

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#2 17-09-2001 9:47am

Xterminator

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I would 1st check and see if DMA is enabled.

If it plays cds fine, and the problem is only DVD's, then it might be worth seeing if there is any firmware upgrades for your drive, also try the latest driver too.

It might be worth making sure you shut down everthing in the background, except explorer and systray, the see if the problem remains. (in Win98 run msconfig) otherwise Ctrl Alt Del.

Failing all that, I'd reinstall the O/S.

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#3 17-09-2001 6:58pm
Superman

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This is what you do:
Turn on DMA

Defrag

Get winDVD update

Turn off al backgroud tasks when watching

TURN OFF ANY ANTI-VIUS

See Thread :DVD Stuff

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#4 17-09-2001 11:08pm

Jimi-Spandex

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Thanks guys
Ill try that now

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