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| Thread ID: 88468 | 2008-03-28 11:04:00 | Slow and Choppy DVD Playback | Tristan402 (13551) | Press F1 |
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| 653643 | 2008-03-28 11:04:00 | I am currently runninig Win xp sp2. i have 1gb of ram. When i first got my computer the dvd playback was very slow and choppy i used many different programs (power dvd, VLC, Win Media Player etc.) they all had slow playback. Not only dvds but anything i put in the drive would read very slowly. but when i coppied files 2 the hard drive they worked fine. i took my comp 2 my computer guy and he exchanded the drive 4 a new 1 at worked fine until now its happening again! is there any way i can fix this without buying a new drive? | Tristan402 (13551) | ||
| 653644 | 2008-03-28 12:00:00 | Welcome to PressF1 :) Looks like you might either have a bad CD/DVD Drive or not enough RAM. Please let us know how much RAM you have, your OS and the specs of your computer. |
beeswax34 (63) | ||
| 653645 | 2008-03-28 12:46:00 | Please let us know how much RAM you have, your OS I am currently runninig Win xp sp2. i have 1gb of ram. ;) :) PS: Welcome to PressF1 Tristan402 :) Also Tristan402 can you let us know what your computer specs are?? Thanks |
stu161204 (123) | ||
| 653646 | 2008-03-28 13:21:00 | Hi This could be a DMA problem so check to see if you have it enabled. For your convience, I will repeat my reply to an earlier thead: Sounds like the DMA, (Direct Memory Access), is not enabled. If a high speed drive does not use DMA then it will never reach it's rated speed and the performance will depend on the speed of the CPU. DMA is a method of transfering data to and from memory with it having to pass through the CPU. As you can imagine it speeds things up dramatically. Here's how to enable it. (>=Click) 1. START>CONTROL PANEL>>SYSTEM>HARDWARE>DEVICE MANAGER>+IDE ATA/ATAPI CONTROLLERS 2. This will now expand to show PRIMARY IDE CHANNEL and SECONDARY IDE CHANNEL. 3. Right click PRIMARY IDE CHANNEL. 4. >PROPERTIES>ADVANCED SETTINGS 5. In the both TRANSFER MODE boxes select DMA IF AVAILABLE. 6. >Ok 7. Repeat for SECONDARY IDE CHANNEL. 8. Close down Control Panel, DMA is now enabled. 9. Try again BURNZEE THE WAY TO A FISHERMAN'S HEART IS THROUGH HIS FLY!! |
Burnzee (6950) | ||
| 653647 | 2008-03-28 14:41:00 | ;) :) PS: Welcome to PressF1 Tristan402 :) Also Tristan402 can you let us know what your computer specs are?? Thanks Whoa! Eye check-up time lol. Thanks Stu :) |
beeswax34 (63) | ||
| 653648 | 2008-03-28 15:44:00 | Yes I agree about the DMA, Windows has a habit of downgrading the IDE after i think 8??? read errors or somethng like that. So even if it is enabled it might have downgraded to a lower DMA mode. | apsattv (7406) | ||
| 653649 | 2008-03-28 18:57:00 | i had similar problems a couple of months ago,found out my girlfriends sister had installed itunes and f***ed round with the settings.now s**t hit the fan after this,games would'nt run properly and dvd movies were slow and unstable.eventually it had wiped the dvd/cd drive icon off the computer,this drive is corrupted message, so i panicked and took it to com guy,he uninstalled itunes,replaced disk drive,. now good as new.he said itunes was fine but dont play around with the settings to much.same for everything i guess. | sk69ersnz (13476) | ||
| 653650 | 2008-03-28 19:25:00 | Oops error | gary67 (56) | ||
| 653651 | 2008-03-28 19:31:00 | I doubt Itunes would screw a cd or DVD up. Theres not a lot of settings to configure in it Besides playback / sharing options / burning / importing options Sounds like the cd or dvd was screwed before you used Itunes |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 653652 | 2008-03-28 19:37:00 | just seemed strange.But yes it was a cheap dvd drive | sk69ersnz (13476) | ||
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