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playing dvd problem
I have just installed a dvd player (Sony DRU-700A)
When playing the sound jumps/skips. I am using the supplied Nero Showtime software Can anyone help please. |
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"gary ewing" wrote in message
... I have just installed a dvd player (Sony DRU-700A) When playing the sound jumps/skips. I am using the supplied Nero Showtime software Can anyone help please. Make sure UDMA is turned on for the IDE channel the drive is on. |
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When playing the sound jumps/skips.
I am using the supplied Nero Showtime software Can anyone help please. When playing what, DVD movies? If "yes", then what's your operating system? If you don't run windows 2000 or XP, you won't have DMA transfers activated as default. DMA is when a device can transfer data without involving the main processor, and is much faster to boot. If you run windows 9x or millennium edition, you need to open the device manager, and find your CD/DVDROM drives (just open the appropriate sub-heading). Doubleclick each optical drive, and on the settings tab, tick the little DMA checkbox, click on the OK buttons to close any windows open and reboot AFTER you have completed this procedure for all your drives. This will reduce CPU load greatly when reading from your optical drive(s) as well as improve throughput. Also, you may want to make sure you have your proper motherboard drivers installed, as otherwise windows will use its own default DMA drivers if it can't identify the chipset used on your mobo. It'll still work mind you, just not optimally. If you have windows XP, that means it will automatically find many varieties of hardware from a number of manufacturers, though not the stuff released from the last couple years. Older windows versions will have less support built-in of course as it won't include support for hardware that was invented after the OS was released... If you're unsure, open up your computer or mobo manual - which you of course saved somewhere, RIGHT??? - and check what chipset is used in your computer. Then visit that manufacturer's website and download and run the appropriate driver package. Some common chipset manufactuers are Intel, VIA, Nvidia, SIS (in that approximate order). If this does not fix your issue, you might want to try another DVD player software. WinDVD or PowerDVD are popular choices and can be bought fairly cheaply over the web and will probably do a better job than your included piece of kit. You might also want to try this approach immediately, as it's probably easier to try (for a novice at least, if you can be categorized as such). If none of this advice was helpful or if you have other questions, please reply with more information about your computer system and any solutions you may have tried on your own. Believe me - this stuff matters A LOT. You can't call up a mechanic and just say your car won't start and expect him to be able to know what's wrong with it. Could be your battery's flat and it simply needs a jump. Could be your crankshaft's seized and you need a whole new engine. :P |
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Thanks for the help.
It was a DVD Movie and I am running ME. PowerDVD has given me no problems. Looked in Device Manager and could not find any DMA check box. As long as it works, I do not mind Thanks again "Lenny" wrote in message ... When playing the sound jumps/skips. I am using the supplied Nero Showtime software Can anyone help please. When playing what, DVD movies? If "yes", then what's your operating system? If you don't run windows 2000 or XP, you won't have DMA transfers activated as default. DMA is when a device can transfer data without involving the main processor, and is much faster to boot. If you run windows 9x or millennium edition, you need to open the device manager, and find your CD/DVDROM drives (just open the appropriate sub-heading). Doubleclick each optical drive, and on the settings tab, tick the little DMA checkbox, click on the OK buttons to close any windows open and reboot AFTER you have completed this procedure for all your drives. This will reduce CPU load greatly when reading from your optical drive(s) as well as improve throughput. Also, you may want to make sure you have your proper motherboard drivers installed, as otherwise windows will use its own default DMA drivers if it can't identify the chipset used on your mobo. It'll still work mind you, just not optimally. If you have windows XP, that means it will automatically find many varieties of hardware from a number of manufacturers, though not the stuff released from the last couple years. Older windows versions will have less support built-in of course as it won't include support for hardware that was invented after the OS was released... If you're unsure, open up your computer or mobo manual - which you of course saved somewhere, RIGHT??? - and check what chipset is used in your computer. Then visit that manufacturer's website and download and run the appropriate driver package. Some common chipset manufactuers are Intel, VIA, Nvidia, SIS (in that approximate order). If this does not fix your issue, you might want to try another DVD player software. WinDVD or PowerDVD are popular choices and can be bought fairly cheaply over the web and will probably do a better job than your included piece of kit. You might also want to try this approach immediately, as it's probably easier to try (for a novice at least, if you can be categorized as such). If none of this advice was helpful or if you have other questions, please reply with more information about your computer system and any solutions you may have tried on your own. Believe me - this stuff matters A LOT. You can't call up a mechanic and just say your car won't start and expect him to be able to know what's wrong with it. Could be your battery's flat and it simply needs a jump. Could be your crankshaft's seized and you need a whole new engine. :P |
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