G1 DVD drive not working well

So I got a G1 a few weeks ago (its the Vista and Lightscribe one) and it has been doing fine, I like the look of it, all the stuff it comes loaded with is a bit annoying but oh well. So now I am trying to watch a DVD that I put into the drive and it won't even play smoothly, its really jerky. I do have new codecs installed and have tryed some different players, its the same on all of them. Its also really slow when I tryed to rip the DVD so I don't think its just codecs. The drive is also really loud when trying to play them. Does anyone else have this problem? Should I call ASUS?

Thanks

 

Look in the IDE/ATAPI controllers in Device Manager and see if anything on either IDE channel is in PIO Mode. The interface dropping into PIO mode is a known problem in XP but I don't know whether it has carried through to Vista. PIO mode results in much slower transfers and hits the CPU performance.

John

 

is this with one dvd or all of them? if with all dvd that are retail check the cpu load in the background. if your cpu load is 100% that is the cause. most likely there is some kind of soft issue which is not inherent on this model

 

mine works fine...

 

Try using media center, it runs 60fps for me but for some reason media player only runs about 10 fps on my g1.

 

This is with all discs, I tryed two DVDs they both did the same jerking thing and CDs install really slow. I have tried using media center, same thing. I don't know where to look for the PIO setting in the device manager window. Under DVD/CD-ROM drives I have two listed, one HL-DT-ST DVDRAM ATA Device and one DTZ615K SCSI DCROM Device. I don't see anything in either of them about PIO mode.

Thanks for the help, this is really annoying!

 

I just tried again and watched my CPU usage and its definatly not full, jumps around but around 30%. My memory is about 60% used though is says that I don't have any free, is this because Vista is using all of it for that thing where it loads what it thinks you might do next into RAM?