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Can't Play DVD's in New Rig

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Poop Shoe

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I just finished building my new rig and wanted to try out the new monitor and video performnace so a friend lent me a DVD to try out. I put it in my DVD drive (Lite-On LDW-411S) and I opened PowerDVD XP version 4.0 (updates with the latest updates) and select play and Power DVD locks up. I finally get that shut down and I tried to open windows explorer to make sure the DVD player could see the files and it won't open!
I eject the DVD and windows explorer Pops up and works fine.
I uninstalled PowerDVD and tried to use Nero 6.6 showtime (another DVD player that comes with Nero) and I have the same problem. I reinstalled Power DVD thinking it installed wierd, but no luck still wont work.
I tried using DVD shrink to see if I could copy the movie (I know....no lectures, I am just trying to see what works and doesn't) and DVDShrink worked perfect (it even lets you preview the movie as you are copying the files to the harddrive.)
WIth this exact DVD drive on my old rig with windows2000 and the same version of PowerDVD, it worked perfect.
Any ideas?
Thanks
 
Is the DVD Auto-loading/playing and trying to install Intervideo DVD Player? It'll seem like the system is trying to lockup because it'll be running behind PowerDVD so you won't see it.

I doubt this is it, but its just a suggestion.

Um...trying to think of what else might be the culprit.
 
Do you have all the drivers for your drive installed, im not sure if it has any but its worth checking. Also, try updating the drive to the newest firmware. If that doesn't help, make sure you've checked all the cables, jumpers, etc, and RMA it.
 
This looks like a a hardware problem. How are are the drives hooked up? Layout out the two IDE channels. Check the drive cables, master/slave jumper settings, are the drive connectors seated nicely - press down firmly if in doubt. Can you read off the DVD drive?
 
Darkswordsman: No, I don't think intervideo is trying to install itself, I tried a buch of DVDs, some "store bought" some straight copies and some movie only copies and none worked.
The auto play feature is disables.

CheesePoofs: All the drivers are uptodate and I updated the firmware, which didn't fix the problem.

Its really weird, the DVD reading/writing works fine, which I proved by copying a DVD. Its just DVD play back that is FUBARed...

Thanks for all the ideas, more are welcome....
 
Uhhh, Bozo I don't understand. Thats a link to DVD region issues. Thats not the problem. I have all region 1 DVDs, I have a home region 1 DVD player and a region 1 Computer DVD-/+R/RW reader, recorder.
Thats not the problem.
 
Have you tried using another DVD player like WinDVD to see if it gives you the same problem? I use WinDVD 6 to watch DVDs on my comp. and have never had any problems with it.
 
I've had really strange problems with the Nvidia IDE/ATAPI driver from the Nvidia 5.10 driver set. These problems may be due to SP2-compatability.

Rolling back the driver to the standard Windows IDE/ATAPI driver cured it.

Hope this helps!
 
How are are the drives hooked up?
Click to expand...

what drives are hooked up to which ide cables in what sequence, with what settings.......


did you hook a dvd drive and a hard drive on the same ide cable?

did you enable DMA on the ide channel your dvd reader is on?

you never answered the original query...which may hold the key to your problem.
 
My computer does the same thing, Ive tried Power DVd and WinDvd with no luck, both crash. The only solution Ive found it to use Windows Media Player which seems to work 100% of the time.. Im running an a64 2800+ and a Chaintech NForce3 motherboard and both dvd drives in my system are on their own ide cable.
 
CT Surg,
I have both my lite-on CDRW and the DVD burner on the same IDE cable, the CDRW is the master and the DVD burner is the slave. DMA 2 is enabled. I can use the drive to burn a DVD and copy a DVD to the hardrive, I just can't play a DVD movie.
Thanks for all the ideas,


MOPARManga,
Did you buy a DVD player codec for playing DVDs on WMP 10?If so, which one?
Thanks
 
i had the same problem on my old neo platinum, some reason i dont have it on my neo2 plat but downgrade your nforce drivers and it'll work like a charm
 
seen that happen before and it turned out to be the Nvidia viseo drivers causing it. I would try some different nvidia driver releases. when i saw it I ended up stepping back to a 5x.xx driver version to cure the issue.
 
Im pretty sure that when you install PowerDVD or WinDVD on your system it installs a codec that windows media player can use. Just install PowerDvd and then open the dvd up with Windows Media Player and see if that fixes the problem.
 
I suspect that another forum participant has already given the correct solution. I was burning and playing DVDs on my Win/XP Pro PC just fine until XP SP2 came along and I suddenly started having problems like yours. I removed SP2 and the problem cleared. I will not install it again until I am sure these problems are resolved.

Also be sure you have the latest firmware for your driver. A firmware update seems to have resolved erratic DVD burning on my drive. And don't get a Sony drive - at least a DRU-530A. I had problems with it and Sony support was pathetic.

Also watch out for ULEAD and SONIC software. Nero and Roxio seem to work much better for building DVDs. At least that is my experience.
 
All Hail the dunkster!!!!!
Your reply was the fix that worked. I have tried 3 different computer forums that usually have great advice and you were the only one who had the fix! I even emailed Cyberlink who makess Power DVD, they were no help. (Please uninstall and reinstall PowerDVD......Duh...)
ALl I did was go into settings>control panel>system>device manager>IDE/ATAPI dirvers and rolled back the drivers to the microsoft ones and they work after the first try.
My computer has been out of service a little while so I just wanted to say thanks dunkster, 2 thumbs up!
Shoe
 
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