Asus G2S-B2:: XP installed, but DVDs look abysmal!

Alright long story short:

I got an Asus G2S-B2 last holiday season (December 2007).Vista was a huge letdown for me, so I went about installing XP. I successfully did so, and found most of the drivers I needed to get it running (next to impossible thanks to ASUS not supplying ANY).

However, I am still completely dissatisfied with DVD quality. Watching anything that is on the computer: fine. Watching anything that is playing from a DVD? Awful. There are millisecond blips every few seconds, the quality is terrible, and the colors are off.

If anyone can help or point me in the right direction, I would sincerely appreciate it. If I need to provide and info (drivers, specs, etc.) that I have now, I can.

Attached is a picture of my "Device Manager" list.

 

It looks like you're missing your intel chipset drivers. Your DVD drive is not the problem. You are also missing ATK and ACPI drivers. The drivers from the DVD should work for XP.

You also should try the latest nvidia drivers and modded inf from laptopvideo2go.com if you haven't already

Also looks like you need an intel turbo memory driver for that 'PCI memory controller'

and no your sound/video/game controller devices are fine unless you are noticing audio problems

edit : hrm I think I'm wrong about the drivers on the DVD working, the drivers from the G1S might work for you:
http://asusg1s.wikidot.com/installing-windows-xp#toc8

Also the reason the dvd is puking is just the intel drivers... your dvd drive probably won't run in DMA mode without them

 

I remember downloading and installing these before I removed Vista, but I cannot remember if I did it after. Can you remind me where I would check for that?

That's where I got all of my drivers :/ I might reinstall a few though just in case...




Thank you so much for your reply, I'll get on looking for those

 

The latest for 32 bit XP is here:
http://laptopvideo2go.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=20457

Make sure to get the modded .inf too, and run the .exe which is self-extracting, then drag the .inf and replace the one that is in the extracted folder or the installer will fail.

You just really need the intel chipset drivers for the DVD (running in PIO mode vs DMA mode, a baaad thing) specifically:
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/con...&OSFullName=Windows* XP Professional&lang=eng

 

I installed the Intel Chipset drivers for the DVD
still have this same problem.

I guess I didn't describe the problem specifically (not that it matters unless someone comes along and had the same problem and fixed it somehow). Every couple seconds (when watching a DVD) a line will appear momentarily, like I can see the screen refreshing or something. It's hard to describe.

It seems to happen where there's movement on the screen.

 

That's the graphics drivers then, did you try those yet, and do you have any fewer exclamation points in device manager? ;-)

 

Just installed the graphics drivers and haven't noticed any difference in it.
:/

Same number of !'s also.

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Gonna need to download and install more drivers then... can't really complain about crappy performance until you get your drivers installed, and it's impossible to diagnose as u can see lolz

 

I don't know which ones I need to update/download though

 

http://dlsvr01.asus.com/pub/ASUS/nb/A6J/ATK0100_XP_061027.zip

That's another crucial one... but basically all of the ones from that URL above.

 

Also it could be a software problem, try another program to play your dvds... or try making sure hardware decoding is enabled in the player preferences etc

 

I've downloaded all those :/

 

Nah I've tried VLC, WMP, WinDVD and a few others, all the same.

 

Have you tried different DVDs? Did you try those graphics drivers?

Sometimes upgrading the nvidia drivers doesn't work, possibly try a complete uninstall of them from the control panel, reboot, and reinstall and reboot again!

If it's not your graphics drivers, and you've gotten rid of all your exclamation points, then you're talking about hardware failure or something else not obvious enough for me....

 

i havent gotten rid of all of the !'s, but I have downloaded all the drivers on that page. :|

 

Must be more drivers for the G2S then, since that's the G1S... I don't have any more links for ya sorry... but at least give the graphics drivers from laptopvideo2go.com a shot