Problems watching DVD

[durutti]

I have a Celeron 600 with 256 RAM.

Few weeks ago I bought a Lite On DVDRW.

People was telling that it might take ages to record a DVD but i didnt care much since the price for DVDRW is very near of a DVD player.
But unfortunately I havent managed yet to watch a DVD movie when I hear more and more people with older PC's to watch DVDs perfectly.

Since then I changed my old good WIN98 with the WIN2000 but the difference as I saw was dramatic! Negatively of course!! Apart from getting viruses even with the service packs every 5 minutes no difference in DVDs

I have tried several players with decreased quality options but nothing yet.

Any ideas? Please help.

[The Geek]

Windows 2000 does not automatically DMA mode.
So, you need to enable it. Go into device manager, double click on each of the IDE channels, and set the transfer mode to "DMA, if available". You probably have to reboot thereafter (though I'm not sure on this).

The Geek

[durutti]

I have already done that and also tried to see the DVD after I copied it on the hard drive.

thanks anyway!

[The Geek]

How did you install the drives ? I mean the primary master/slave etc. thing. How did you hook your drives up ?

Also, you should install a firewall, then you won't get viruses anymore.

The Geek

[durutti]

Secondary master is the DVDRW connected with a hard drive
and the Primary Master the Boot hard disk with slave the CD-ROM

[theReal]

What kind of graphics adapter is in your box? Because if it's some kind of on-board graphics chip this is probably the weak part in your system. The Celeron 600 should be good enough to watch DVDs in 800x600 resolution (you don't need more because DVD resolution is even a bit lower than that), but it definitely needs a fairly good graphics adapter with DVD hardware acceleration (something like a Radeon 7000 or better)

By the way: with your CPU and only 256MB RAM it was probably not a good idea to change to Win2k from Win98 (but still, with a capable graphics adapter playing DVDs shouldn't be a problem)

[durutti]

My video card is Riva TNT2 32Mb...
And everyone does tell me that I should not have problems watching dvds..

By the way with WINDVD player I see some improvement than with POWERDVD or any other player but it is hardly watchable!