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    Compaq Presario V2418au

    Discussion in 'HP' started by Sumatie, Jul 12, 2006.

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    I just bought one of these and it does not play DVD properly when played through the optical drive it's very jerky and the sound doesn't work well, fine through the HDD. I have seen others work better than that. The RAM has been upgraded to 512k. Any ideas what is wrong with it?
     
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    Can anyone help me?
     
    Sumatie, Jul 12, 2006
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    Look up the DVD drive in Device Manager and make sure it's running in DMA mode and not PIO. If it's running in PIO mode that would explain the symptoms you described.
     
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    I checked device manager and BIOS and can not find where it tells the setting or gives an option to change it.
     
    Sumatie, Jul 13, 2006
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    D'oh... I should have said check your IDE controllers in Device Manager, not the DVD drive.
     
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    Just checked it. It's in DMA if available but is currently running in PIO mode and I can't seem to change it from that panel. Is there any way to enable DMA?
     
    Sumatie, Jul 14, 2006
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    Try deleting the ide channel.
     
    ZaZ, Jul 14, 2006
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    Did it, reinstalled and now works perfectly. Thank you both very much
     
    Sumatie, Jul 14, 2006
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