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danthepixelman
02-19-2002, 10:26 PM
The video on my DVD is somewhat erratic. Even with brand new DVD's, it still skips and hesitates on occasion. Should this be expected? I spent a fairly large amount of cash to have this computer built and was expecting exceptional performance ( I was promised exellent video quality ). With 384 Megs of Ram and a 64 Mb video card shouldnt I be getting the quality I was promised or am I just expecting too much?
DrZaius
02-19-2002, 10:29 PM
Are your running any programs in the background, specifically anti-virus software? If so, disable it and see if it still skips. Also, how are the drives arranged on the IDE chanels?
danthepixelman
02-19-2002, 10:40 PM
No anti-virus, only program of that sort is XP's built in firewall. And Im not sure about what you are asking about the channels. I can tell you that it appeared as though the man who set my system up overlooked a few things in the bios. Another tech at the shop caught a couple things as he was introducing me to windows XP.
BeardedClem
02-20-2002, 04:53 PM
Do you have DMA enabled for the DVD drive? if it is not the playback will be jerky regardless of the quality or speed of the drive.
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