Creative Labs 1243E DVD problem

[wishy65]

I have a creative labs 1243e dvd player running power dvd. During playback I get a constant judder. I have enabled direct memory access and it has helped the problem to an extenct. I still seem to get a judder every 5-6 seconds on every dvd I play. Is there something I have to alter to make this problem go away?

Regards

Jonathan

[chapsieml]

You need to post more info: type of mother board, type of ram memory and quanity, type of processor and speed, mother board buss speed, type of video card and the amount and type of ram on the card. Often the problem you have described is caused by the video card; sometimes the problem is the processor or buss speed. And another problem is DMA- you must have the dvd device set for DMA, and the hard drive must be set for DMA. We doubt the problem is caused by the DVD drive, but it could be. Often the best fix is to get a video card that also is a decoder card for DVD playback.

Good Luck!

:)

[wishy65]

Thanks for reply chapsieml. I have enabled DMA and the problem still persists. I am pretty sure the Hard Drive is set to DMA but could you tell me how to do that?
My system is a:

Elitegroup ECS SIS 735
Athlon 1.4 Thunderbird running at 133
128 Sdram memory
Hurcules 3D Prophet 2 MX Dual - display video with 32mb of memory
20 gig Hard Drive
Sony CRX 160E CD RW

Any help would be apreciated.

Regards

Jonathan

[userserver]

What OS do you have. Is your sound onboard? What programs do you have running in the background?

[chapsieml]

Click on my computer, click on control panel, click on system, click on device manager, click on CD-ROM, click on, or highlight your dvd rom drive and then push the properties button. Then click on settings. You will see an options screen with little check mark boxes. Check the DMA box. You will probably get a system has to reboot to change settings so do so. You will need to do the same procedure with the hard drive. In the device manager click on disk drives. Then you will see something like, Generic IDE Disk Type46. Highlight that using the left mouse button and then click on the properties button. Click on settings once again, then put a check mark in the DMA box. Expect a reboot to change settings again. After these two procedures you should be running DMA. Some times this setting will not set to DMA on a hard drive. You will need to recheck the control panel to be sure you are running DMA. And also make sure you have set the bios IDE Drives for DMA. Also your hard drive may have to be jumpered to work ATA, or DMA.
Often it is just as simple and straightforward as making the changes described above in your control panel to have everything set to DMA.

[Ammok]

Power DVD eh? Version please.

What resolution and colour have you set it to?

I got two of those little babies running on Celerons 667 and 700 respectively but had to drop to 8 bit colour to get them working smoothly.

Run PowerDVD, configuration, video screen tab, change resolution and then select a setting x 8 bit colour.