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  • Samiboy
    Junior Member
    Junior Member
    • Feb 2002
    • 4
    #1

    Dvd Freezes After Five Minutes

    Morning!

    I've got an interesting problem. I have three different DVD players- ATI's that comes with the Radeon 7000 VE, PowerDVD and Win DVD.

    NO MATTER what I do, each of these players freezes after 5-7 minutes (even if i fastforward!) The audio continues, but the video just gets stuck.

    I have recently built my first PC- Athlon system, have 128 MB of RAM, 80 gig HDD (7200) and a Asus A7A266 motherboard, which has worked beautifully so far. DMA is turned on and I have set custom virtual memory setting to try and solve the probem.

    Any suggestions? What am I doing worng

    Thanks,
    Samiboy
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    • setarip
      Retired
      • Dec 2001
      • 24955
      #2
      Have you considered the possibility of a faulty drive?

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        • Samiboy
          Junior Member
          Junior Member
          • Feb 2002
          • 4
          #3
          Yes, but....

          Yes, but I would be bothered by the fact that the audio still continues....

          Do you think i could be suffering from some kind of buffer underrun? Is a temp file created during DVD playback?

          If I had the cash, i'd run right out and buy a new one...but I don't!

          Sam

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            • Samiboy
              Junior Member
              Junior Member
              • Feb 2002
              • 4
              #4
              NOT BROKEN!

              Looking for that elusive suggestion...

              I was able to pull the DVD and place it in one of my office PC's- it worked great, and had no problems playing at all.

              The office PC is a immodest PII 450 with384 mgs of ram and 30 gigs of space, with 8 mgs of video ram. It looked great.

              Stumped. Any suggestions?
              Sam

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                • leyther
                  Junior Member
                  Junior Member
                  • Feb 2002
                  • 1
                  #5
                  You are not alone...

                  I too have the same problem.

                  I have recently installed a Pioneer x16 DVD into a PIII500 system (256MB RAM, 32MB TNT2 AGP vid card, Win 98).

                  Tried this with dvdplayer.exe - video freezes after 4-6 mins sound continues. Close program and re-open shows frozen picture at same point. Re-boot and re-open starts the dvd at the beginning again!

                  Tried with other freeware players - same result.

                  Tried with Power DVD and InterVideo demos - both get to 5 or 6 minute time out without problems.

                  Drivers are the most up to date ones and DVD drive is next letter after HDD (suggested by some fora).

                  Any suggestions gratefully received!!

                  Leyther

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                    • Samiboy
                      Junior Member
                      Junior Member
                      • Feb 2002
                      • 4
                      #6
                      Fixed!

                      Leyther-
                      After pulling my machine out and testing it on another system, I reinstalled it from scratch.

                      Things are working great- no freezes. Which of course leads me to believe that it was my initial installation. Power DVD runs great now. But how can you screw up a simple IDE cable, power, and sound cable? Who knows?

                      Good luck!

                      Sam

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