mdock2003

I installed a new Lite-on DVDRW drive in my computer and for the first few days it worked fine. Now it won't finish burning and my video and audio is a little distorted and jumpy. This happens when I put in a disk and when I try to play DVD back up files from my computer. These DVD backup files played and burned just fine a few days ago. I have cleaned it, defraged, cleaned up the temporary files and installed an updated driver, but the problem perisist.
I have a dell with 512 ram, 2.7 Gig processor with an integrated sound and video card. Up until this point it has worked just fine, the problem started suddenly and I have no idea why. The computer is even running slower than normal.

Michael

DeathHawk

Have you tried reinstalling your chipset driver...rebooting and then reinstalling your audio driver again??

mdock2003

Yes, however I think I may try it once more.
To add another twist to this issue, I installed a few other DVD player programs (power DVD and nero showtime) and now I can play DVD's just fine, Showtime will even play the backup files off of my hard drive without problems. If I use itunes my music plays fine. I tied to uninstalled WMP but I can't seem to get rid of it. I still have not figured out why any burn I try will not complete, I use it doesn't matter what program I use, they all fail. I have checked and rechecked every setting on my burner and every setting I know to look for in Windows. I am stumped.

Michael

DeathHawk

Have you tried updating the "firmware" of your new drive...go to the manufacturers website to get the latest version

mdock2003

I have uninstalled and reinstalled everything, turned off any service/program that could be eating memory/processor speed. I have updated every driver and the firmware, still I can't get more than 10% of a DVD to burn. If I drag and drop data files to the DVDRW it will burn them to CDR, but DVD's just don't work. I have used 1 click DVD and Nero both with smart burn and still it doesn't work. I installed a second DVD/CDR drive and used nero to try a direct drive to drive burn, hoping that maybe bypassing the write to the hard drive would help, it still fails. Now I even get the occassional can't "read" memory , click ok to terminate program error. The stupid thing will play DVD's and music just fine as long as I don't use WMP. It seems to be burning everything else just fine, but it does not like the DVD's. I have even bought 2 different brands of DVR disk and neither works. I can't burn DVD's from the hard drive files (I can burn to the HD but not from), I can't burn from DVD/cdr drive to DVDRW drive. Yet this thing was working perfectly up until Saturday.

I don't know what else to do short of a complete reformat and reinstall, which I want to do as a last resort. I've always been able to solve issues like this with simple driver updates, but I can't figure this one out...


Michael

DeathHawk

Post your mobo details please..

http://www.cpuid.com/pcwizard.php

Under "mainboard"

So it only happens through wmp?

It may or may not help-give it a go..

http://www.free-codecs.com/download/...Codec_Pack.htm

Any yellow marks in device manager?

mdock2003

Thanks, I am going to download both of them and give them a try.

Here is the motherboard and other info according to Aida32, (this was before I installed the second DVD/CDR drive so it does not show.)

Motherboard:
CPU Type Intel Pentium 4E, 2800 MHz (5.25 x 533)
Motherboard Name Dell Computer Corporation Dimension 3000
Motherboard Chipset Intel Springdale-G i865G(V)
System Memory 509 MB (DDR SDRAM)
BIOS Type Phoenix (01/05/06)
Communication Port Communications Port (COM1)
Communication Port ECP Printer Port (LPT1)
Display:
Video Adapter Intel(R) 82865G Graphics Controller (96 MB)
3D Accelerator Intel Extreme Graphics 2
Monitor Toshiba DP566M, Equium (7052713382)

Multimedia:
Audio Adapter Intel 82801EB ICH5 - AC'97 Audio Controller

Storage:
Floppy Drive Floppy disk drive
Disk Drive Maxtor 6Y080L0 (80 GB, 7200 RPM, Ultra-ATA/133)
Optical Drive LITE-ON DVDRW LH-16W1P

As far as I know I have the most up to date drivers and firmware for everything in my computer, including the BIOS. I uninstalled all of them that I could, got on line and found the absolute newest versions each manufacturer had available on their sites. I even went to a few tech/driver sites and checked just to make sure they didn't have versions newer than what I had downloaded.

The playback problems only happen in WMP, DVD's and the DVD files play fine in Nero Showtime and Power DVD. Music plays fine in Nero and itunes. FYI, I even tried upgrading to WMP 11. The DVD burning problems happen no matter which program I use.

DeathHawk

Or this one..

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...DisplayLang=en