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406252 2005-11-22 02:01:00 Video Lan Client Rob99 (151)
406253 2005-11-22 02:04:00 Have recently brought a MB on trade me to upgrade from 300 to 400Mhz which
was a major 4 him.If the tweaks wont work then no DVD's
kjaada (253)
406254 2005-11-22 02:12:00 Hmmm......I have an 800MHZ cpu sitting in a motherboard, There is no price attached, Not trying to make a sale. Metla (12)
406255 2005-11-22 03:09:00 There is the big problem.
I am in Nelson and Pete is in ChCh
We had yonks of correspondence to get the MB and then get it installed and working.
(I had a bit of a steep learning curve there as well) as I had always stayed on the outside of me puter prior to that.
He has a friend at Canty UNI who I suspect is getting more than a bit Peed of with him also.
So from here on in we are on our own and simple solutions will be best.
kjaada (253)
406256 2005-11-22 03:15:00 Hmm.

One other thing you can try is start the DVD playback, then bring up task manager, right click the media player process, select Priority, Then select the one second from the top.

This may make not improve the playback, may in fact make it worse, But worth a shot.
Metla (12)
406257 2005-11-22 03:35:00 Hmmm......I have an 800MHZ cpu sitting in a motherboard, There is no price attached, Not trying to make a sale.
You have just restored my faith in human nature I felt someone would help
After my sincere postings, and they really are.Pete has been IH since birth
and 3 years ago had a major op for a brain tumour,lost his mum at a faily early
age and his puter is his be all end all.(I know it is all a bit hard to believe but it is for real)
Let me know what you would like to do.I have no problem paying freight etc.
Colin
kjaada (253)
406258 2005-11-22 09:42:00 You say your mate is in Chch, I am also in Chch, I also have an old Win98 computer doing nothing, I will check it out in the morning to see what specs it has, if it will do what he wants and he wants it, its his.

This is only the box though, no monitor, I could find mouse and keyboard to if needed.
Rob99 (151)
406259 2005-11-22 09:51:00 Alrighty, Lets see what Rob can come up with seeing as he is local, Failing that I'll go through my spare parts and see what I can come up with. Metla (12)
406260 2005-11-22 19:28:00 Something <500Mhz would realistically need to be running Win98 with something like PowerDVD3

My dad had a 500Mhz laptop with 768MB Ram. Worked perfect in Win98 on the laptop using PowerDVD 3 & 5. Upgraded to WinXP and it didnt like it one bit. Clean install and it was a little better, but not totally perfect until I went through and disabled a ton of services etc.

It works now, but thats all the laptop can do, it needs all the other apps totally closed etc.

It _is_ possible though. Im positive that PowerDVD3 initially needed a 350Mhz PC.
Chilling_Silence (9)
406261 2005-11-22 20:11:00 Its a PIII 667 with 128Mb ram, I will try with VLC PowerDVD 5 and Media player, will have to pinch a DVD Rom out of another computer first. Rob99 (151)
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