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    e1505 DVD/CD Playback Issue

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by ziki, Oct 3, 2006.

  1. ziki

    ziki Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hello. I recently bought a e1505 (in july) and love everything about it. except one thing. When i go to play movies from my dvd drive, they always play choppy. It seems to do this with anything being read off the cd drive actually. i.e. when playing a game and reading off the cd, it gets choppy. My performance settings are on high, and i'm not sure if it behaved properly before i reformatted or not. Also, I installed Theorica Divx codecs because I had no DVD decoder. I also have intervideo xpack and cyberlink powerdvd. Anybody else experience this? The drive burns CDs perfectly, and I have no problem playing movies off my HD
     
    ziki, Oct 3, 2006
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    compsavy Notebook Deity

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    ask dell for cyberlink and uninstall the other program as Theorica has caused me problems also.
     
    compsavy, Oct 4, 2006
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    Lots of people have had the same issue while using the theorica Codec. uninstal it and get a diffrent codec
     
    gridtalker, Oct 4, 2006
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  4. ziki

    ziki Notebook Enthusiast

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    okay i uninstalled theorica and still no luck. i have cyberlink codec and intervideo codec. currently both still cause issues

    any other suggestions?
     
    ziki, Oct 4, 2006
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  5. Amber

    Amber Notebook Prophet NBR Reviewer

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    how many processes are you running in your task manager? You might be maxing out your processor or ram.

    Also, you might check and make sure that your cd/dvd is set to DMA mode and not PIO mode (which is default with dell for some reason). To do this, go to the device manager, under the IDE ATA/ATAPI CONTROLLERS-->right click on secondary IDE channel-->properties-->advanced settings-->DMA if available for both devices.
     
    Amber, Oct 4, 2006
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  6. ziki

    ziki Notebook Enthusiast

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    Okay i checked the secondary IDE channel and device 0 shows current transfer mode to be PIO Mode. Transfer mode is set to 'DMA if available.'

    Is there some sort of registry tweak or bios tweak that can change this?
    61 Processes, Low Cpu usage, commit charge 761mb/2916mb when writing this
     
    ziki, Oct 5, 2006
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  7. ziki

    ziki Notebook Enthusiast

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    nvm problem fixed
     
    ziki, Oct 5, 2006
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    DAcanal Newbie

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    Hi

    I also bought my E1505 in July and have exactly the same problem and more:

    1 - Windows, Sonic and other programs do not recognize a brand-new DVD-R.
    2 - Audio and video playback from my HD is choppy as well.

    Has anyone fixed such problem?

    Thanks.

    DAcanal.
     
    DAcanal, Oct 16, 2006
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  9. davejohn

    davejohn Notebook Guru

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    Ziki fixed his. See the above post for checking the DMA setting for the drive. If you need instructions for setting DMA on see here.

    Dave
     
    davejohn, Oct 16, 2006
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