Video Vexation Mountain Home AR

Posted by : Stephen J. Bigelow Tech Advisorhed: Video vexationdek: also, beware of vibrating CDs and carriers already present.by Stephen J. Bigelow

Q: I just changed my video adapter, and now my DVD movies won't play. The video card works fine otherwise. Is the card bad, or just incompatible?

A: Chances are that your video card is neither defective nor incompatible. In many cases, the problem is that the links between your video and DVD drivers have been "broken" during the video card's installation.

When a video card is installed, it changes entries in the Registry that associate MPEG playback with video-card drivers. The video card's MPEG drivers may not be fully DVD-compliant, and since they probably took precedence over the MPEG drivers of the DVD system, this may be your problem.

Try reinstalling the video card from scratch (use the latest drivers downloaded from the manufacturer's Web site), then reinstall the DVD drivers and software applets. This should reinstall the proper DVD MPEG-ready drivers and correct the problem.

Q:I've got a Plextor CD-ROM drive that makes a lot of noise when it spins up, but this doesn't happen with every disc. I've seen it happen with a few commercial CDs, and a lot of CD-R discs. Any ideas?

A: This is classic problem that's often encountered with faster CD-ROM, CD-R, and CD-RW drives. Just as car tires must be balanced to spin properly at high speeds, unbalanced discs may cause excessive drive vi...

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