DVD Drive

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William

Ever since installing XP Professional I have been unable
to play DVD's om my DVD drive. I also have a cd rewriter
and both drives can play cd's with no problem.

I remember when I fist purchased the PC with Win 98 that
the DVD player had the same problem. After several
telephone calls with no sucess I took the pc back to the
suplier and the technician had a look in various
properties boxes and eventually either added or removed a
tick and this fixed the problem.

I can't find a similar properties box for the DVD drive
in XP and I'm guessing that the problem is simply a case
of activating/de-activating something, but I have no idea
what.

I have checked region settings and they are fine and the
drive is recognised as a dvd drive in device manager.

Does anyone have any idea what may be the cause of my
problem?

Many thanks

William
 
Windows XP does not have DVD codecs/software. You must install a third
party app such as WinDVD or PowerDVD. Check the setup disc that came with
the drive..it should have some type of software on it

Bobby
 
Hi Guys

Thanks for the replies, but I do have DVD software
installed, I have Power DVD.

I'm sure it's something to do with the settings of the
drive but not sure what or where to find it.

William
 
I have an update to my problem.

Today I received a region 0 DVD and tried this and it
played ok. But when I try my region 2 disks I get a
message saying no disk in drive E.

I went to the drive properties in device manager and saw
that in region settings, no region was selected. I
therefore selected region 2. Now I can still play my
region 0 dvd but am still getting the no disk in drive E
message when I try a region 2 disk.

William
 
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