The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    Can't watch DVD Movies (P200, downgraded to XP)

    Discussion in 'Toshiba' started by darth_boo, Aug 14, 2008.

  1. darth_boo

    darth_boo Newbie

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    1
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    I have been having problems not being able to watch DVD Movies using programs like Cyberlink PowerDVD or Windows Media Player, when i try to load a DVD disc, the program crashes, i have had troubles with some of my games that previously worked on Vista, that do not work on XP now, but i'm not sure of this really is the problem...I have gotten some DVD's to run, but they sometimes don't have video or sound when being played so its kind of useless trying to watch DVD's on my laptop

    here are some of my laptop stats

    Satellite P200
    Downgraded to XP
    intel 2.0 ghz
    7600 geforce go
    1 gb RAM


    Any suggestions would be great
     
    darth_boo, Aug 14, 2008
    #1
  2. allan_huang

    allan_huang Notebook Deity

    Reputations:
    25
    Messages:
    1,030
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    55
    Try downloading "K-lite" its a codec pack.
    Then use their "Media Player Classic" or just WMP
     
    allan_huang, Aug 14, 2008
    #2
  3. John Ratsey

    John Ratsey Moderately inquisitive Super Moderator

    Reputations:
    7,197
    Messages:
    28,841
    Likes Received:
    2,166
    Trophy Points:
    581
    I wonder if there are driver problems somewhere. Does Device Manager show any problems.

    I would also recommend updating the XP to SP3, if you have not already done so.

    John
     
    John Ratsey, Aug 15, 2008
    #3