Playing DVD's

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Russ

I have worked on this problem for days, uhguh!Have tried
DVD troubleshooter, windows update,nothing works. Running
windows XP pro, software is PowerDVD 5, have downloaded
all patches available for my sytem including
updates.Media player will not play the DVD manually
either. My theory is that it is a motherboard problem,
could this be possible? I'm running an Intel Pentium 4,
2.4 and a Nvidia 5200 video card. Help please?
 
Windows Media Player can not play DVDs. PowerDVD 5 is where the DVD needs
to be played from.

Y.
 
Russ

Some of the newer DVD releases have a copy-protection feature that prevent
play when a TV-out ability is detected. You do not need to be using the
feature for the copy-protection to prevent play - only that it is available.
This will produce an error message whenever you attempt to play such a
protected DVD.

If this is the case then one way around this is to roll-back your video card
driver to a version that does NOT have this feature available.

Personally when I come across this problem I use my 'update driver' option
to install the last Microsoft certified driver I have installed on my system
that does not conflict with the copy-protection check - NVIDIA driver
version 29.5.8 - and then install a newer version when more up-to-date
graphic facilities are required. But I doubt this will work if you have
installed a more up-to-date NVIDIA driver that has been certified by
Microsoft.

You may be able to either roll-back to the 29.5.8 version or uninstall your
current driver and then install 29.58, but I haven't gone down this route so
any directions would be a little vague. With luck, or experiment, some
further assistance may be forthcoming from other posters.

Hope that helps
Pete
 
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