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DVD Playing & Faulty Laptop

  • 24-06-2005 11:50pm
    #1
    Sully
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 24,056 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    I have another problem with this fecking PC. I have several AVI Video files which are roughly an 40 - 50 mins long each. I placed them on a DVD disk to save space on the PC. When I play any of them, the CPU Fan races continuosly and after a while of playing one of the files, the picture stops showing, I can still hear the file's audio grand and the player crashes. I have tried it in both Winamp and Windows Media Player. It only happens if the file has been playing a good while. I have stopped it, and re-played it and it still stops after a short while. It never stops in the same place. I thought it was the disk, so I tried playing it of a CD-RW. Then I thought it was the drive, so I tried playing it in the CD-ROM instead of the DVD Player on the PC. Still no look, which makes me wonder is my PC not equipt to play long video files?

    Here are the specs;
    Dell Pentium 4 - 3.06Ghz.
    512 MB Ram
    74GB HD with only 12GB left (I have an extra HD attached with just my bigger files such as games etc)
    NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 [Display adapter]
    SoundMAX Integrated Digital Audio
    NEC DVD_RW ND-3520A [CD-ROM drive]
    AXV CD/DVD-ROM SCSI CdRom Device [CD-ROM drive]
    Generic DVD-ROM SCSI CdRom Device [CD-ROM drive]
    SAMSUNG CDRW/DVD SM-348B [CD-ROM drive]

    Think that should cover the specs anywho? Any ideas?

    Also, have an old laptop here who's fan refuses to move all of a sudden. Loads up to the boot screen and stops. All I can hear is a "click click" sound. Fan refuses to move. Was working grand one moment, now, wont fecking work at all! Have to bring out the PC to my room to watch the videos on my pc!! HD wont work on other laptop either, so a friend is giving me a 5GB HD to replace it. How much € should I give him for being so generous??


Comments

  • #2
    mp3guy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,977 ✭✭✭mp3guy


    and people say dell are good :rolleyes:

    The drive is probably set to PIO mode. Goto system properties and then device manager, right click on Primary IDE Bus or whichever one your drive is on, check go properties, and check through the tabs to see whether its on PIO mode or DMA, if it is on PIO, remove that IDE bus and refresh to reinstall it, that should work.


  • #3
    Wandering Dazed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 78 ✭✭Wandering Dazed


    Do they play fine off the hard drive? Do you have any anti virus software which scans removeable drives? Try disabling that and playing them. When the player hangs check task manager to see is there anything else hogging cpu usage/memory.


  • #4
    Sully
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 24,056 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sully


    When I posted that, it was a short while before I wanted to play another movie file. So I spent a while researching the problem on the net and testing out different methods.

    1) To stop the fan racing, all I had to do was copy and play the video of the hard drive, and not the CD/DVD Drive. (My DVD Drive didnt come part of my package with dell, I installed it myself)

    2) The video stopping was something to do with faulty frames, and a fix to stop them causing the film to crash was released (DivX Anti Freeze @ http://www.xvidmovies.com/faq/#4.5) so that done that trick.

    In the Task Manager it was the actuall player hogging up the most memory. All seems to be grand now that I installed a fix and played it of the HD. Hopefully it will stay that way!!


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