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    New E1505 & Video Question

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by jday, Mar 23, 2006.

  1. jday

    jday Notebook Enthusiast

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    I finally got my E1505 last night (after UPS tried to deliver it to the wrong house and I had to go to the UPS place and pick it up). :mad:

    It is everything I expected, but I found that playing a DVD is very chopping and the sound is out of sync with the video. This only happens if I play it with Windows XP booted. If I used Dell's Media Direct (without booting into XP) is plays fine. I tried several DVDs and they are all the same. Has anyone else had this problem or can someone maybe suggest how to improve the DVD playback after XP has been loaded? I wouldn't think that having a few background tasks should effect the playback since I do have the 2GHz Core Duo. Thanks.
     
    jday, Mar 23, 2006
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  2. Amber

    Amber Notebook Prophet NBR Reviewer

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    It could be the amount of junkware running in the background. Dell has a ton a pre-installed software on their laptops, so I recommend either disabling them in MSConfig, removing them by add/remove in the control panel, or clean install (best option).

    2.0ghz shouldn't have a problem running it, so it might not be necessarily the amount of processes running in the background, but one of the processes could be effect your dvd playback software.

    SG
     
    Amber, Mar 23, 2006
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  3. syxbit

    syxbit Notebook Evangelist

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    i would guess it's codec issues, as by default some companies don't give a DVD codec,
    just download a trial of windvd7
    www.intervideo.com
    and try that
     
    syxbit, Mar 23, 2006
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    TheChase80 Notebook Enthusiast

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    is anyone else having this problem with their e1505?
     
    TheChase80, Mar 23, 2006
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    I did a clean install and the laptop runs much smoother
     
    gridtalker, Mar 23, 2006
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  6. Snookay

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    how'd u do that? When u did that were u alble to keep that Instant On thing that plays music n stuff?

    BTW ~ no video or sound problems with mine. I couldnt get 6 months of AOL though...
     
    Snookay, Mar 23, 2006
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