My Toshiba 12x Drive dont play dvd's... HELP

[complovingmusclehead]

Hey guys, My toshiba 12x dvd drive wont play dvd's. I downloaded this windvd 2000 player, and it dont work. It reads cd's fine, i installed a buncha stuff thru it. I bought the oem drive and didnt get any software or anything for this, is that what the problem is? Or am i missing some extra dvd hardware i need? Any help will do. Thanks in advance guys.

-computer illiterate muscle head.

 

[damien6]

It would help if you list your vid card, cpu and the operating system. (and any other configurations/settings)

 

[complovingmusclehead]

I have an asus k7v mobo, athlon tbird 800 processor. I have a plextor 12x burner in there, set as the master, toshiba as the slave. Windows 2000 is running. 256mb RAM, uhhhh... 30 GB WD Harddrive. dum dee dummmm... i think thats about it... any more info u need, lemme know...

 

[complovingmusclehead]

whoops, im running on a geforce video card right now... which brings me to anotyher question, The GEFORCE PCI card runs fine, but i got a new agp one and it wont work. Other agp cards work on this agp slot, but i figured if the geforce pci works, why wont the agp one work? grrrr....

 

[anton]

what does WInDVD says ? it just doesn't see your DVD disk ? then first go into settings of it and change the drive letter (as you have two cd-rom's) , and then see if you have right Region set-up (again in windvd settings I believe)

Don't forget to tell resultats ; )

 

[han888]

i think it's must be the region problem

 

[complovingmusclehead]

well, when i go to preferences it asks which region. then i hit region 1 for U.S. but then it says 4 more tiems until permanent. But i dont know if i should o this, because i dont want it to be playing only Region 1 dvds. Or do i HAVE to do this before it'll work?

 

[Flat]

umm you have to enter a region, but if you get DVD genie you can change your region whenever you want. you need to get rid of that horrid name & signature also

 

[complovingmusclehead]

hehe, thanks man, i'll get a new name, dunno bout the signature thjo... =) but where can i find dvd genie? i dont wanna buy none of that... =)

 

[bacillus]

for dvd genie go here, click tools & it's at the very bottom!

 

[Quickfingerz]

it's good to have two dvd programs. stick to windvd2000 for the highest video and audio quality though.

 

[corkyg]

Did you change your BIOS to use AGP instead of PCI?