Can't play DVD on Pavilion dv1154

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In my experience Nicola, this has always been a laser in the DVD player
going bad. DVD drives have two of them. One for CD and one for DVD. And
when one goes flaky, they can't read one or the other well or not at all.

It could be something else, like DMA turned on when it isn't supported
for the player. Corrupted WinDVD install, etc.


Cheers!


___________________________________________
Bill (using a HP AMD 1.2GHZ & Windows 2000)
-- written and edited within Word 2000

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>In my experience Nicola, this has always been a laser in the DVD player
>going bad. DVD drives have two of them. One for CD and one for DVD. And
>when one goes flaky, they can't read one or the other well or not at all.

Indeed, this is my same thought... But before complaining that a laptop
right of the box has a bad dvd drive, I would like to explore all
possibilities.
Furthermore, it happens that sometimes it does play DVD, and that's why I
was oriented to a software issue more than hardware...

>It could be something else, like DMA turned on when it isn't supported
>for the player. Corrupted WinDVD install, etc.

do you think it should be turned OFF? I thought it should be on...
Default settings say "Use DMA if available", should I turn that off?

Nicola

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"Nicola" <thenetmaster512@(removethis)hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 21:25:58 GMT

>In my experience Nicola, this has always been a laser in the DVD player
>going bad. DVD drives have two of them. One for CD and one for DVD. And
>when one goes flaky, they can't read one or the other well or not at
>all.

Indeed, this is my same thought... But before complaining that a
laptop right of the box has a bad dvd drive, I would like to
explore all possibilities.

Furthermore, it happens that sometimes it does play DVD, and that's
why I was oriented to a software issue more than hardware...

Yes a small number of brand new lasers fail very soon. So knowing that
this is new doesn't surprise me a bit. It would be nice if they tested
each laser for 50 hours or so (as the flaky ones usually fail within 50
hours). But they don't.

>It could be something else, like DMA turned on when it isn't supported
>for the player. Corrupted WinDVD install, etc.

do you think it should be turned OFF? I thought it should be on...
Default settings say "Use DMA if available", should I turn that
off?

If the hardware supports DMA, it computer doesn't have to work as hard.
So it's better to be on, of course. Although for whatever reason like
compatibility and things. It might not work too well. So turning DMA
support off would be a quick test to make sure this isn't a problem.


Cheers!


___________________________________________
Bill (using a HP AMD 1.2GHZ & Windows 2000)
-- written and edited within Word 2000

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"Nicola" <thenetmaster512@(removethis)hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi all!
> Very quick question indeed? Has anyone experienced issues with playing
> DVDs on
> the pavilion dv1154 laptop?
> Both WinDVD (which comes bundled with the laptop) and Windows Media Player
> fail to play DVD correctly: either they stuck while the dvd player keep
> spinning, or the movie cannot be played correctly (e.g., it stops after a
> few seconds).
> I'm not sure whether that is a hardware or software issue, and I would be
> grateful to whoever can help me out with this.
>
> Kind regards,
> Nicola
>

I have a dv1156cl (an almost identical model)
and have not had any problems with DVD play.

The DVD drive however can be quite noisy when
it spins up.



dk

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Hi - I had a similar problem - was getting the following message - found
problem to be Netmeeting - I had set Netmeeting to load at startup. With
Netmeeting active - it disabled DVD playback on both Windows Media Player
and InterVideo Win DVD4 - When I exited Netmeeting everything worked ok -
Cheers Ray

"Nicola" <thenetmaster512@(removethis)hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:41j%d.3181$IN.78675@twister2.libero.it...
> Hi all!
> Very quick question indeed? Has anyone experienced issues with playing
> DVDs on
> the pavilion dv1154 laptop?
> Both WinDVD (which comes bundled with the laptop) and Windows Media Player
> fail to play DVD correctly: either they stuck while the dvd player keep
> spinning, or the movie cannot be played correctly (e.g., it stops after a
> few seconds).
> I'm not sure whether that is a hardware or software issue, and I would be
> grateful to whoever can help me out with this.
>
> Kind regards,
> Nicola
>

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>When I exited Netmeeting everything worked ok -

Hi, and thanks for your response.
I don't have Netmeeting loading at startup: the thing is, I encountered this
problem right
after getting the laptop out of the box...
Could it be MSN messenger (or windows messenger) that loads at startup by
default loading also netmeeting drivers?

Kind regards, and many thanks!
Nicola