2007-02-06 08:52:53 · 7 answers · asked by Spicy 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
It worked normal before so I'm not sure what's wrong with it-I am defragmenting it right now to see if it will help. It's only 6% done right now and it's taking forever. Thank you all for your help-hopefully something works.
2007-02-06 09:15:42 · update #1
I just figured out that it is not all DVD's. The ones with pictures on the DVD itself work fine, but the plain ones with the title and what not around the center only are the ones that are not working as they should. Any help?
2007-02-06 10:18:52 · update #2
Could be a problem with the DVD drive, in which case you may have to replace it...but drives are relatively inexpensive.
Try cleaning the recording/pickup head. Take a cotton swab, immerse the cotton bud into rubbing alcohol, and clean the glassy part of the head. If you look from above right into the drive caddy, you'll see it as a glassy round thingy.
Hopefully this will help.
2007-02-06 08:57:50 · answer #1 · answered by InspectorBudget 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ram is the most common culprit for this problem. Most laptops have insufficient ram when playing DVDs so the system will attempt to cache things to the hard drive. Also it's fairly common that video ram is shared with system RAM on many laptops. The solution is pretty simple - just increase your RAM to a minimum of 512 Megs - 1 GB of RAM would be preferable if you are playing DVDs frequently.
2007-02-06 17:02:57 · answer #2 · answered by bsdespain 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably your DVD software like the previous poster suggested. When you pop in a DVD, what launches to play it? If it is anything other then Windows media player, then it is probably going to stutter. Just make WMP your default DVD player and you should be OK.
2007-02-06 16:59:20 · answer #3 · answered by wyntre_2000 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Has it ever worked correctly before?
The problem you are having is directly related to the speed of your laptop and the mode of which your video card is processing the video. You may want to check in to you display properties in advanced to see if you are using direct overlay. Also turn down your hardware acceleration. This can be found under system properties >Advanced.
2007-02-06 17:00:02 · answer #4 · answered by Anthony G 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I had that happen to me before, but that was because I had a really slow computer. Actually, I was using a new version of PowerDVD to play DVDs and it kept stalling, so I installed a more basic version and it worked fine. Don't know if that will help or not, but it's worth a shot.
2007-02-06 16:56:03 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think you might have to defragment your hard drive.
2007-02-06 16:56:48 · answer #6 · answered by zed10096 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
make update to video card software.
2007-02-06 17:09:29 · answer #7 · answered by Tareq_vip 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋