I bought a brand new AMD system (1433MHz) with a Pioneer DVD player (16x). I've been having some difficulty playing DVD's reliably. The media player gets an error message about every 15 minutes, crashes, and has to be restarted. Anyone else have this problem? Anyone know what I can do about it? I'd be grateful for anything someone can do. It's really quite annoying!
Posted by Harry (Member # 265) on :
I have the exact same combo, an AMD 1.4 and the Pioneer DVD 16x... but no problems.
It may be helpful if you tell precisely *what* the error message says, and what kind of motherboard, videocard, memory and even soundcard you have.
Posted by akb1979 (Member # 557) on :
Sigh. This is yet another slash at my confidence in technology.
Posted by Cartman (Member # 256) on :
There's nothing wrong with the technology itself. People often seem to forget that a computer is a very complex piece of machinery, and despite the best efforts of Bill 'n Co. to make their front-ends more user-friendly (thus, more easily accessible to the average Joe Schmoe), what lies underneath the surface is the product of one of man's highest exact sciences - and it can't be simplified.
*Notices people gazing at him in peculiar fashion*
Anyway, to the business at hand. 1). Check, double-check, and triple-check all cables. Make sure all the connectors all firmly in their sockets. 2). Test the drive's integrity by inserting it in your old PC. 3). Hardware conflicts... two or more components "don't really like another". Troubleshoot by removing a single component of your PC at a time - a strip of memory, the soundcard, etc. You should be able to identify the culprit this way.
Posted by Michael_T (Member # 144) on :
If that doesn't work, see if you need to update a driver so the DVD player will work properly in XP.
Posted by Charles Capps (Member # 9) on :
Or try different DVD software.
Posted by Squawk (Member # 313) on :
Well, I checked the cables, the drive, etc, and everything is working alright. The error message says that Windows media player has had a program error, etc (and must be shut down) then I get the error report option. My video card is the nVidia GeForce MX 2, TV/out, memory is 256megs, soundcard is SoundBlaster 128 pro.
for some reason, I think that it's the media player it's self. Perhaps there's an update patch for it? or if someone can recommend another player, that I can use for DVD's, it'd be appriciated.
Posted by Harry (Member # 265) on :
PowerDVD (aka WinFastDVD)
It sounds just like my configuration . But I don't have any problemos.
[ January 06, 2002: Message edited by: Harry ]
Posted by Topher (Member # 71) on :
On a related note, I also require a bit of Windows XP help. On my previous install, I somehow managed to get the text under desktop icons to be white and have a kind of shadow effect under it, not the coloured box. On this install, however, I have the coloured box. Any idea how to get the shadow effect back?
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
Well, not to sound crazy, but howsabout you have a hunt around in Control Panel, eh?
WinDVD is also good.
Posted by Topher (Member # 71) on :
Not much of any help in there.
Posted by Jack_Crusher (Member # 696) on :
No big surprise there. Microsoft has always programmed all of its copies of Windows to fuck up with one thing or another, and then charge people money for tech support to tell them what's wrong and how to fix it. It's a conspiracy that's been going on since the earliest days of Windows 95, to increase Microsoft's profits. What they didn't count on however, were the people contacting the computer makers for free tech support. No, really, XP shouldn't be f***ing up like this, since it is supposed to be "crash free", although this term is not in Microsoft's vocabulary.
Posted by Michael_T (Member # 144) on :
And yet people can manage to stay problem free with Windows XP. What gives?
Use a different software to play your DVD. I have WinDVD and InterActual DVD since I bought the Fast And The Furious DVD.
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
No software can be "crash free."
Posted by Topher (Member # 71) on :
Well it's impossible to get a BSOD with XP seeing as where it doesn't run on DOS. And, sure, it may crash, but it's not the end all crashing that previous versions of Windows does. No rebooting necessary or anything. It's quite nice, actually.
Posted by Tahna Los (Member # 33) on :
A much better solution.
Don't use XP.
Posted by Michael_T (Member # 144) on :
That's true, just use Windows 98 SE or Me.
Posted by Squawk (Member # 313) on :
A little late now to say "don't use XP", huh? I think the problem is solved though, after a few tweaks here and there. Hopefully. Oh, and for the record, I have crashed windows XP using WordPerfect suite 10 alone (waits for the cheers of accomplishment)
Oh, and I thought that WinME was quite buggy also? I recall, or thought I recall numerous complaints and reports on it's apparent instability.
Windows 98 isn't much of a prize either. I've used that for the past 3 years. Not exactly a fun system. I have crashed it at least once a day. Sometmies more depending on what I'm doing.
[ January 07, 2002: Message edited by: Squawk ]
Posted by Harry (Member # 265) on :
Don't use computers.
Or learn Linux.
Posted by Michael_T (Member # 144) on :
I have a chalk board for sale then...it comes in 24 chalk color.
Posted by Balaam Xumucane (Member # 419) on :
Buy one of them fancy new flatscreen iMacs.
Posted by Cartman (Member # 256) on :
BSOD's have nothing to do with DOS, btw.
Learned Linux. Liked command-line interface. Didn't like Windows-style shells.
Posted by MinutiaeMan (Member # 444) on :
quote:Originally posted by Balaam Xumucane: Buy one of them fancy new flatscreen iMacs.
With Mac OS X...
I think you'll find that that is one piece of software that truly is crash-free. (And it's also the original graphic design style that XP ripped off of.)
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
OSX crashes.
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
And then there's the problem that 98% of the world uses PCs and Windows. But he, stand alone. Stand tall. Stand proud. Be confused at work.
Michael: InterActual DVD isn't actually a DVD player, it's a front end. It will use your WinDVD software. But that's okay, cause WinDVD is good.
" Microsoft has always programmed all of its copies of Windows to fuck up with one thing or another, and then charge people money for tech support to tell them what's wrong and how to fix it. It's a conspiracy that's been going on since the earliest days of Windows 95, to increase Microsoft's profits."
Yes. There are also subliminal messages hidden into the Start menu telling you to kill all Jews and Gypsies, and to then donate the unused organs to Bill Gates.
Posted by Coddman (Member # 10) on :
Cartman: You don't like Windows-style shells? So don't StartX... *L*
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