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Old December 30th 04, 03:08 PM
gary ewing
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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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Old December 30th 04, 05:09 PM
T Shadow
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"gary ewing" wrote in message
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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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Old December 30th 04, 11:56 PM
Lenny
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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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Old December 31st 04, 03:23 PM
gary ewing
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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
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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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