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  • Shimmers
    Junior Member
    Junior Member
    • Dec 2001
    • 1

    DVD - XP Hades - Help?

    I won't bore you with my two week trip into Hades attempting to install XP. Suffice to say after hours on the phone with the Microsoft Engineer I had to do a fresh install of XP. Now I'm trying to reinstall my programs and get everything to work again ... BIG SIGH.

    I have the SM-4 with P550, 128 RAM. DVD had worked. Works fine with CDs. It is a Toshiba DVD=ROM SD-M1212. I checked the Toshiba site and it says no drivers are needed for this. I figured it needs software so downloaded a trial version of DirectDVD.

    No joy. If anyone has ANY suggestions on how I can get this working I would appreciate it VERY MUCH.

    DirectX works fine.


    Yes, XP is identifying the DVD player in Device Manager.

    Yes, it shows the correct model number.

    No yellow ? anywhere.

    I removed and reinstalled it. Same result. What may be happening is that it is being identified as a CD-ROM as the driver says cdrom ... MS driver 5.1.2535.0.

    Yes, I have ALL the updates except for the Virtual Machine.

    I don't believe this machine has a decoder card. In looking at the orginal packing slip for this $2862 computer (ouch) I don't see anything that would refer to anything by mPact or Chromatic Research. Machine was new in July 1999. The trial version of DirectDVD says that it is XP ready. I suppose I could try some other trial version. Power DVD? Windows Media player doesn't recognize the DVD.


    Any help or suggestions deeply appreciated.
  • tequila sunrise
    Junior Member
    Junior Member
    • Nov 2001
    • 8

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    Looks like a lot of fun but better if you come back with details about OS, video card, burning software and so on.If you have a Roxio Eazy Creator Platinum 5.0 that's where the problem is comming.Is still buggy with all the updates from 5.0 to 5.02 to 5.1 .But I assume you have it.If you remove your burning software you might loose the DVD and the writer and is going to be more fun.Check your ASPI version ( latest 4.6) and find a burning softare like Nero 5.564 the latest stay away from Roxio and Direct cd.For DVD player download go to Oleg's site at http://dvdsoft.reallyrussian.org/ and for burning software download go to http://www.cdrsoft.cc/index3.html at the last site go and register to forum and you are going to find something about XP.

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