DJ_VuDuu Posted November 4, 2002 Share Posted November 4, 2002 I'm running Win XP, with a Radeon 8500 le, and Sony DVD drive, it was running fine for a while, now it done went and got all choppy on me, messed around with all the settings in PowerDVD, messed with the video card, defragged my hd, cleaned my cache, everything but a fresh XP install, should I try that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FthrJACK Posted November 4, 2002 Share Posted November 4, 2002 tried upgrading your dvd firmware? if that makes no difference try another movie player, BSplayer is **** good, FREE, loads of skins for it too.. its like the winamp of movie players, and has AC3 codec handling built in.has nice features such as creating custom aspect ratios, hotkeys, can display subtitles from a txt file etc.Also try older (or newer) vid drivers.how much RAM have you got? and is Windows managing your page file size, or did you set it yourself?try increase it... max size about 1.45 times the size of your total physical ram.eg, 512mb x 1.45 = 742.4mb maxset minimum to same size as your ram.lastly... your dvd drive might be dying? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ_VuDuu Posted November 4, 2002 Author Share Posted November 4, 2002 Not sure how to upgrade the DVD Firmware, is it messy? As for the drivers, I've the got the newest, I thought that might help, no such luck, and ram, I've got 850 mb, and how would I change my page file size? And my DVD shouldn't be dying, I bought it not even 6 months ago, maybe around June or July, but just barely out of warranty. For now I'll download the other player, PowerDVD is getting annoying too. Thanks man.-Ian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 4, 2002 Share Posted November 4, 2002 Goto Manufacturers website and look for updates Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
airwolf Posted June 7, 2003 Share Posted June 7, 2003 Try going into operating system recovery. I've had problems like you. What I did was restore my operating system to an earlier date. That seemed to do the trick. Furthermore, I checked cables, changed cables but all seemed to be in order. Do you have another drive to check?? If so, try that first. Later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rstryker Posted June 7, 2003 Share Posted June 7, 2003 you can get and learn about firmware for your DVD and Burners here: http://www.firmware-flash.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rik Posted June 9, 2003 Share Posted June 9, 2003 One thing to check is whether the DVD movie installed PC Friendly DVD software. Now they have changed the name to Interactual DVD player. It's another DVD decodeer SW that lots of others have trouble with. Power DVD will tend to skip or stutter during playback if the other DVD SW is installed... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beccatigger Posted June 9, 2003 Share Posted June 9, 2003 I had that problem too...answer? I got rid if the Packard Bell and bought a Toshiba lol Drastic but effective Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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