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    PowerDVD (as supplied by Dell) is not playing Star Trek on my M17x

    Discussion in 'Alienware' started by cookinwitdiesel, Nov 21, 2009.

  1. cookinwitdiesel

    cookinwitdiesel Retired Bencher

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    So I just got Star Trek on Blu Ray today, and was excited so had to test it out. Popped it in the M17x, opened PowerDVD 8 and hit play. The screen flashed once, switched to windows basic color scheme, then powerdvd was just closed.....

    Not sure what hoops I have to jump through here, but I would like this to work

    Help please?

    And I have played other blu-rays with this laptop with the same software.
     
    cookinwitdiesel, Nov 21, 2009
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  2. cookinwitdiesel

    cookinwitdiesel Retired Bencher

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    Seemed to have figured it out, ran an installer from Alienware in the C:\Dell\Drivers\Cyberlink PowerDVD folder. I named it PowerDVD, will be some random code from dell by default.

    Anyways, it worked now.
     
    cookinwitdiesel, Nov 21, 2009
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  3. froogle

    froogle Notebook Evangelist

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    Dammit - I was going to make a pithy comment about Star Trek knowing your computer is not advanced enough to truly experience the awesomeness and that the solution would be to upgrade to the far more modern and superior M15X. Now I can't.

    ;)
     
    froogle, Nov 21, 2009
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  4. The_Moo™

    The_Moo™ Here we go again.....

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    research

    if anything its a step down ;)
     
    The_Moo™, Nov 21, 2009
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    froogle Notebook Evangelist

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    Oh, and a fella can't have a bit of fanboy fun now huh.
     
    froogle, Nov 21, 2009
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  6. The_Moo™

    The_Moo™ Here we go again.....

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    they are made by the same people :confused:
     
    The_Moo™, Nov 21, 2009
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  7. BatBoy

    BatBoy Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    OP resolved issue - thread closed.
     
    BatBoy, Nov 21, 2009
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