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DVDs skip a lot on older laptop.....

edro

edro

Lifer
I have a Compaq Armada 7400, 333MHz and 96mb RAM, and it has a DVD drive in it. I downloaded the video drivers from Compaq. I have only treid one DVD (LOTR) but does it skip because of the slow CPU? I think the DVD drive is 8x.

You can't even watch it is skips sooo much.

Thanks for any help!
 
There are DVD decoder cards for laptops (my friend's old Celeron based laptop has one). Perhaps you could find a card off of Ebay or so...
 
Ouch.. very slow cpu, and in a lappy at that. I'm surprised they put a dvd drive in it, must have been for the novelty of it.
Check out the dvd decoder cards for the laptop. I had a hollywood+ card on my desktop and it made a world of a difference
at the time when I was using my old k62.
 
I had a 333mhz pentium-2 laptop and it played dvd's alright using software decoding. You couldn't do anything else, but they played.
 
Originally posted by: Gibson486
you nailed it. Slow CPU.
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Yup and you're low on RAM too. There are actually system equirements for DVD drives check the manuf's site.

Thorin
 
We had 266mhz lappys at a prev job I had, and they did DVD's with no problem. Check out your resources, see if there's stuff loading with Windoze. Also, keep in mind that if you upgraded your OS you've automatically slowed the machine down some.

If that lappy is capable of booting off CD, see about creating a barebones boot image and running that. 😉
 
Yep, that would work. My friend had a similar breakout cable with the usual RCA video and audio and S-video outs. Just stick it in, install drivers, and you should be good to go.
 
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