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ram1009   08-19-2009 at 05:33:20 PM

I'm not sure where to ask this because I'm not sure what's causing it. I have a fresh install of XP Pro in an old machine running an Athlon XP 3000+ on an ASUS A7V8X MB with 1.25G of memory. Bios & drivers are current. Every time I launch a DVD the system freezes completely. I can open the viewer, either VLC or WMP but as soon as the DVD begins to open it freezes. The CPU is not overclocked and the machine runs OK otherwise. Any ideas out there?

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saint19   08-19-2009 at 07:13:16 PM

Use another codecs...ffdshow...try with this codecs...

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Bronze Win XP badge aford10   08-19-2009 at 09:15:07 PM

Does it freeze completely, meaning you have to restart the PC? Or does it pause and then continue on?

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ram1009   08-19-2009 at 09:43:27 PM

aford10 wrote :

Does it freeze completely, meaning you have to restart the PC? Or does it pause and then continue on?




The only way to continue is to power off.

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number13   08-20-2009 at 05:25:08 PM

I am assuming that the memory is a couple of mismatched sticks, try removing all of them except one and see what happens, then try a different stick

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Bronze Win XP badge aford10   08-20-2009 at 06:01:06 PM

Try it with an audio CD and see if it does the same thing.

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ram1009   08-21-2009 at 03:53:08 AM

number13 wrote :

I am assuming that the memory is a couple of mismatched sticks, try removing all of them except one and see what happens, then try a different stick



Tried a single stick of Crucial DDR2 512MB. No joy!

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ram1009   08-21-2009 at 03:53:54 AM

aford10 wrote :

Try it with an audio CD and see if it does the same thing.



CDs play fine even in WMP.

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Bronze Win XP badge aford10   08-21-2009 at 04:04:34 AM

Check the transfer mode
device manager-->IDE channel-->properties-->advanced-->set transfer mode to DMA

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ram1009   08-21-2009 at 04:45:24 AM

aford10 wrote :

Check the transfer mode
device manager-->IDE channel-->properties-->advanced-->set transfer mode to DMA



All 4 devices are already set to "DMA if available".

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Bronze Win XP badge aford10   08-21-2009 at 04:57:40 AM

You can try the drive manufacturers website to see if there are new DVD drivers or firmware.

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ram1009   08-21-2009 at 05:04:43 AM

aford10 wrote :

You can try the drive manufacturers website to see if there are new DVD drivers or firmware.



Probably worth a try, however these drives were working perfectly on a diffwerent HDD running XP Home in the same computer.

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Bronze Win XP badge aford10   08-21-2009 at 05:52:54 AM

There may be nothing physically wrong w/ the drives. XP home and Pro and the 2 different HD's likely had some different drivers installed.

Other than a failing drive, I'm not sure what else it could be.

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ram1009   08-21-2009 at 06:00:53 AM

aford10 wrote :

There may be nothing physically wrong w/ the drives. XP home and Pro and the 2 different HD's likely had some different drivers installed.

Other than a failing drive, I'm not sure what else it could be.



I'm stumped too. As I said the drives were running fine on XP Home on another HDD so I don't see how changing the HDD & OS could harm the drives. I feel like it must be something with XP because even VLC media player freezes. I'll probably have to reformat again. What a PITA.

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Bronze Win XP badge aford10   08-21-2009 at 06:07:54 AM

Changing the HD's means losing all the codecs, drivers, and updates that were done. I'm not saying that's what it is, but it's worth a shot.

You could try the drive in a different PC to verify that DVD's still play ok in it.

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ram1009   08-21-2009 at 06:12:43 AM

aford10 wrote :

Changing the HD's means losing all the codecs, drivers, and updates that were done. I'm not saying that's what it is, but it's worth a shot.

You could try the drive in a different PC to verify that DVD's still play ok in it.



I'll have to find another IDE machine. My others are all SATA.

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Bronze Win XP badge aford10   08-21-2009 at 06:24:21 AM

Even most newer boards still have 1 IDE port. If there's another machine, you should be able to slap it in.

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ram1009   08-31-2009 at 04:01:46 AM

Quick update: I hacve upgraded WMP to v11 and it now plays DVDs OK. I've installed Mplayer and it's OK too. The only one that doesn't play is VLC. It still freezes instantly.

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