i can get an image and sound, but its extreamy slow to play it.
it stops after about half a second playing. this is extreamly annoying.
anyone know how i can fix this?
I could be way off... but is the DVD drive on the same IDE cable as the source HDD?
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that is what it sounds like to me.......
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its the same cable that goes to the cd-rw
but its how the old dvd drive ran, and that was perfect ( till it broke)
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System Specs Please. Could very well be a driver issue.. What are you playing the dvd with? (software).
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2.70ghz celron
512mb
49x dvd drive
what spc do you need to know? nothing else has changed since the other one broke
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You did not reinstal anything else except for the Drive correct? Did you set the jumpers on the drive? Also what was the software are you using to watch your dvd? did you try uninstaling the software and reinstalling with your new drive in? Have you used the drive to do other things? Try using that drive to instal somthing such as a game or piece of software of any kind and see if there are read errors and take note of the speed of which it takes to perform such tasks.
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am tried it with power dvd, media player and some other software i installed today.
it works find when copying images/videos from a disk onto desktop, but "my computer" crashed if you try to do anything with the box while its doing alot.
i dont know what a jumper is, all i have going into the drive is, the power cable, and a long black "bus" looking thing, which i assume carrys the data
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If you look on the back of the drive where you plug in the power etc. you'll see small pins with a jumper. Usualy when you recieve the drive it will be on "CS" which stands for "Cable Select". I would suggest making sure that this drive is set as a Master on the secondary chain. Also set the drive pin to master if it's not already rather then cable select.
Edit:
May be a dumb question but you did try it with more then one dvd right?
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i have tried it with brand new cds, two dvds and its the same problem.
have just looked, the wide lead thing, says master, and the slave one goes into the cd drive
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