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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!
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Sigh. This is yet another slash at my confidence in technology.
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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.
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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.
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If that doesn't work, see if you need to update a driver so the DVD player will work properly in XP.
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We appreciate your concern. It is noted and stupid.
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Or try different DVD software.
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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.
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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?
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Well, not to sound crazy, but howsabout you have a hunt around in Control Panel, eh?
WinDVD is also good.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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