ATi DVD 4.1 problems in Win2K

[MrWhiteUK]

Just built my new machine (check sig) everything runs rock solid apart from one thing, the Ati DVD player causes a bsod when I close it sometimes, it mentions somthing about ati2dvg.dll, which is the Radeon driver which I have reinstalled. Any suggestions? Everything is running great apart from this.

Thanks

 

[dowxp]

hmm, i guess update vid driver?

 

[GFORCE100]

No it does that here too sometimes. Just one of those things ATI hasn't fixed yet. Not had it happen in Windows Me yet.

 

[MrWhiteUK]

I have just built the comp so ALL of the drivers are the latest ones.

Thanks, guess I'll just have to live with it.

 

[GFORCE100]

I have turned on IRQ Steering which seems to of helped a bit. Only has done it once since that change.

If you have Windows98/Me installed then run it in that - the DVD player.

 

[nnnyyy]

No problems here with 2K and a AIW Radeon.

 

[cbuchach]

The only lockups I ever get in Win2k are generally ATI related. Yeah, the DVD player isn't the most stable piece of software I have ever used. I have gotten a few lockups and a BSOD or two when doing things it didn't like. For example clicking the FF button quickly then stopping or resizing a few times. It seems rather finicky so I always try to "play nice" with it.

 

[MrWhiteUK]

It also doesn't like anything being installed while it's running. Everything else runs great.

 

[rbV5]

I've not had that happen and I use my DVD player quite alot, maybe reinstall the DVD player and MMC&.1 again?

You don't really install software while using your DVD player, do you?

 

[MrWhiteUK]

not intentionally, just forget sometimes.

 

[aircooled]

Radeons don't like ACPI in win2k either, if you have ACPI enabled, do a search in the Operating Systems Forum and disable ACPI.

 

[GFORCE100]

It does it without ACPI turned on too.

 

[rbV5]

<< Radeons don't like ACPI in win2k either >>



AIW Radeon + ACPI in my Rig, 6 months of almost 24/7 and getting along very nicely.

 

[aircooled]

I've always had problems with ACPI &amp; Radeons with both MSI &amp; Abit boards with VIA chipset. Once I go to Standard PC the problems go away.

But obviosly others are using ACPI with no problems, so I stand corrected.

The exact problem was any video playback would jump and skip. Or play at normal speed for a few seconds, then speed up drastictly, then slow down again. Disabling ACPI would fix it every time.

 

[rbV5]

aircooled, it could be one of your components aren't exactly ACPI compliant, ACPI is a little sticky with some hardware and probably the reason some have had hard to troubleshoot or obscure problems. My experience is that it either works good for you(such as my rig) or puts your computer on the edge of instability.

 

[aircooled]

you are absolutely correct. It could very well be ANY other component in my system that doesn't play well with ACPI, and I've just been blaming it on the radeon for all this time ;-)