Cheetah8799
Diamond Member
I built a rig for my cousin about a year ago now, and she has had issues with DVD playback ever since. Only in the really fast action scenes of some movies.
Shuttle MN31n motherboard
AMD XP2200+ cpu
512mb PC2700 (2x256 Dual Channel)
LiteOn 16x dvd
80gb WD hard drive
LiteOn 52x cdrw
Anyway, the DVD is the slave on the primary IDE channel, WD is the master. The CDRW is master on secondary.
I'm thinking there is some bandwidth / throughput issues with having the DVD as primary slave. Maybe it's competing with the hard drive when there are action scenes with more data/video going through at a time?
As of a week ago the system had a 512mb stick of PC2100. I replace that with the dual-channel ram hoping it might help with this issue, and also some random app crashes. I have since found out that the 512mb stick is bad... 🙁 Guess I'm stuck with it now (I did an even trade...).
I also tried replacing the IDE cable, just in case. Both were/are ATA100 ribbon cables. Didn't seem to make any difference as far as the system performance in general.
Can anyone think of any other reasons why it might get choppy in action scenes? Since I've made the hardware changes we haven't been able to test it much because she just moved into a new apartment and hasn't setup her computer yet....
Shuttle MN31n motherboard
AMD XP2200+ cpu
512mb PC2700 (2x256 Dual Channel)
LiteOn 16x dvd
80gb WD hard drive
LiteOn 52x cdrw
Anyway, the DVD is the slave on the primary IDE channel, WD is the master. The CDRW is master on secondary.
I'm thinking there is some bandwidth / throughput issues with having the DVD as primary slave. Maybe it's competing with the hard drive when there are action scenes with more data/video going through at a time?
As of a week ago the system had a 512mb stick of PC2100. I replace that with the dual-channel ram hoping it might help with this issue, and also some random app crashes. I have since found out that the 512mb stick is bad... 🙁 Guess I'm stuck with it now (I did an even trade...).
I also tried replacing the IDE cable, just in case. Both were/are ATA100 ribbon cables. Didn't seem to make any difference as far as the system performance in general.
Can anyone think of any other reasons why it might get choppy in action scenes? Since I've made the hardware changes we haven't been able to test it much because she just moved into a new apartment and hasn't setup her computer yet....
