Problem w/ new dvd player and decoder

[wrelax]

Hello, i've purchased a new dvd player and decoder on ebay. This is the one i bought http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI...ndexURL=0&rd=1 . I received it today and put the drive in only. It seemed to work but windows prompted me w/ something like "one of the drivers were unsuccessful view event ...." . But i tried playing an audio cd and it works. Next i tried using power dvd to play a dvd. It says MCI ERROR! The specified device is not open or is not recognized by MCI. And then it says DVD Error. Error code 8901000F Internal error. I was like omg... i smell problems. So i pretended nohting happened and then put in the decoder into one of my pci slots booted up again. The only driver that came w/ this box was a cd that says DVD Motion (Application & Driver Disc). HRM. Does anyone have any clue, can you please help! All i want to do is watch the Matrix..doesn't want me to though. Does this thing not support windows 2000? oh yea i'm running win 2000advserv.

please help

[babylon5guy]

I have the same DVD and the same mobo as you except I have a Duron 800 in mine. My DVD plays perfectly without a decoder card. I use Win98se but Power DVD supports Win2000. You DO NOT install any drivers for the DVD, and that is what the error means I believe. MCI errors generally mean an improperly installed driver. Whatever driver you installed uninstall it and just install Power DVD and it should work fine without the decoder card. If you do want to use the decoder card it does have a driver that needs to be installed. But if mine works fine with an 800 Duron yours should be good to go with a GIG Thunderbird!

[wrelax]

alright thanks. I did get powerdvd and ran it. It works fine. However, i went to utobia.com to get some drivers previously and d/led something, it never installed properly though. I think i have parts of the drivers in my comp but i have no clue where to find them or uninstall. Oh well, i guess ill just take out the decoder from pci slot and just let it be. Waste of 40 some bucks.

[morriswindgate]

Here is an Explanation of the MIC Error

http://www.fitne.net/support/suppfaq.htm#MIC

[wrelax]

i asked the guy i bought it from and i got it all solved. It works now and i can tell that the hardware decoder does make the quality better. However, one problem still remains. Upon just using the dvd drive alone, soon after boot up there would be a prompt that says "Atleast one service or driver failed during system startup. Use event viewer to examine the event long for details." DUNNO what thats all about, i would think win 2k would have drivers for a dvd drive.

[babylon5guy]

Hi wrelax,

Do you have the DVD hooked up to High Speed IDE channel, using the 40 pin 80 wire cable, because it is a ATA66 drive. Mine worked much better when I did this. I don't see how a decoder card would make mine run any better. There are no dropped frames and looks every bit as good as my DVD player hooked to my TV, matter of fact better due to the monitor being so much clearer than the TV. I think that driver problem you are having is that driver you loaded previously. If it is not in the add and remove programs I don't know how you are going to get rid of it. Maybe some kind of registry cleaner would do the job. Hopefully someone who knows more about this than me will reply. I'm Win 2000 illiterate.

[glc]

You do need to use the event viewer and see just what's failing.

[wrelax]

yeah i looked at event viewer, there are like over 20 errors. I have no clue what has happened, after the purchase of the dvd stuff it has just gone down hill. I am planning on reformatting and partitioning 2 drives, one for OS, other for games and appz. Never did it before but seems smart for things like this when drivers and stuff get messed up.

[AlwaysUp]

Hey, babylon5guy! Are you sure about DVD drives being ATA66? My Ricoh MP9120A is a combo drive and it makes no mention of this...not even on the specs sheet. I'd assumed it was like most CD-Rom drives and such at ATA33. Here is my combo drive http://www.ricohdms.com/mp9120a.htm ....at bottom of page click specifications. Get back to me...as I have the Abit BE6-II mobo with onboard ATA66. I presently have two 7200rpm drives, each on an independent ATA66 IDE bus. If it is as you say...that this drive may support ATA66, then I am going to Master/Slave the hdd's and put the CD-RW/DVD on the other.

[babylon5guy]

Hi AlwaysUp,

Sorry it took so long to get back to you but this goes to my work email and I was off Sat and Sun. Wrelax was talking about the Pioneer 16X DVD which I also have and yes they have the ATA66 interface http://www.pioneerelectronics.com/Pi...s/DVD-A06S.pdf see page 2. Most DVD's use ATA33, I looked at the link you supplied and they are not very clear on the interface it just says ATAPI. I would do other search's and see if I could find more info or drop Ricoh an email. I originally hooked it up to a regular IDE channel at ATA 33 and was getting the occasional glitch watching a movie, so I hooked up to the ATA66 channel and saw a big improvement. I hope you are able to do it with yours. Good Luck.

[wrelax]

well thanks. I got it to work like i said, and it does work very very nicely. However, i have like 2 drivers installed and can't find the other one. So i'm having some trouble during first few minutes of bootup and get a blue screen after a few hours. i have to reformat.. Ughh.. such a hassle

[AlwaysUp]

Thanks for the info, babylon5guy. I will check further into this and I appreciate your efforts.