[RESOLVED] DVD player only works in Windows ME

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October 9th, 2001, 07:59 AM
Satan Claws

DVD player only works in Windows ME

I have an RM PIII 800 laptop with 128mb RAM, 20gb HDD and an 8X DVD-Rom drive.
The laptop came with Win 98 but when I installed Power DVD it caused the system to freeze whenever I put a DVD in. I Installed Windows ME and the DVD worked fine but old games do not. So last night I setup dual-boot with Win 98 and Win 2000 but 2000 also crashes whenever I try to play a DVD, I installed a WinDVD and the same problem occured. Does anyone know why this might happen? Any way to fix it?
Cheers.

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"It's a shame all the people who really know how to run the world are too busy driving taxi's and cutting peoples hair" -- George Bernard Shaw
October 9th, 2001, 09:29 AM
Acura Tech

Did you try to (un)check the DMA setting in the DVD properties ?
October 12th, 2001, 05:40 AM
Satan Claws

I tried changing the DMA settings, still no joy, re-instlled Win ME and found it doesn't work there anymore either, CD's and CD-Roms work just fine and it did play DVD's once.
HELP!

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"It's a shame all the people who really know how to run the world are too busy driving taxi's and cutting peoples hair" -- George Bernard Shaw
October 14th, 2001, 03:43 PM
MozCom Guy

I had a Teac DVD which I had to disable the UDMA in the Bios, and ensure that it was set to PIO, as well as switching off the DMA in windows.

Then all I had to do was configure the CD DA as it didn't have sound out!

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