System Lag on DVD read

[sieni]

When I try to run a DVD in any media program (VLC, Media Player Classic, WMP) I get a fast screen flicker and video/audio starts lagging.

System Specs:

Motherboard: Abit AB9 Pro Intel 965 LGA775

Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 (OC to 2,6ghz)

Harddrives: 2x Samsung T166 500GB 7200RPM SATA RAID0 (1Tera), HD501LJ and HD502LJ

RAM: Corsair DDR2 KIT 2X1GB 667MHZ and Kingston Valueram 2048MB 800MHZ

Gfx-Card: Club 3D Radeon HD 4870 1GB OC

Power: 400W

CD/DVD Drive: TSSTcorp CD/DVDW SH-S182D (Samsung SH-S182D)

The underlined components have been added "just" after the previous time I tried reading a DVD (this is when it still worked). I don't use DVDs too often, so the problem might have nothing to do with the change in components. I'm pretty sure the problem isn't DMA related (PERHAPS I have some wrong configs in my bios, as I had to mix about it a bit to get RAID0 working). (Not sure about the next thing in English, but I'll try to improvise on what I know:) The seconday IDE-Channel in my Device Manager shows PIO-Only, though it has DMA, if available set to on, though I think this is unrelated.

I also had an old 160gb HD on the same IDE-Cable as my CD/DVD Drive, but I removed it when installing my new 500gb drive. The thing I suspect here is that I don't have enough power output, can this be true? Everything else works fine, I can play games, no problem. But when I try to watch movies from DVDs the problem occurs.

DxDiag:

http://paste.servut.us/plain/duav

I have tried this thread:

http://club.cdfreaks.com/f61/troubleshooti...0-me-9x-101616/

Edited February 7, 2009 by sieni

[GrofLuigi]

It looks to me it's DMA related after all.

Did you do that (switch to "DMA if available")? (as described in the article you linked)

If that doesn't work, you could try deleting the Ide channel/controller (which the article says not to ).

Another thing could be master/slave configuration (jumpers) which got messed up when you removed the HDD on the same channel.

GL