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Hey people, although Im new to these forums, Im no stranger to free-codecs site, so here we go:

I have a SONY DRU-800A dvd-rom/ DVD-RW / CD-RW unit, and I get a few weird results.

Under PowerDVD 6 deluxe, every retail dvd I run does the following thing: Transition from interactive menu animation to static menu selection (i.e= chapter selection, main menu, options, etc...) takes about 20 seconds to change. IN other words, when I'm on, say, the main menu and wanna go to the OPTIONS menu, from the moment I select the option till it actually goes there, it takes aproximately 20 to 30 seconds to change. And after a while, the dvd will stop playing completely, and my dvd gets reverted back to PIO mode.

My specs:
AMD Athlon 64 3000+ socket 939
Mother MSI k8n Neo2 platinum
2x 512 DDR 400mhz = 1gb DDR dual channel RAM
ATI Radeon 9800 pro 128mb (r360 chip)
HDD Western Digital CAVIAR WD1200jb 120gb with 8mb buffer (on IDE 1, master)
Sony DRU-800a (on IDE 2, master = secondary master)
Win Xp pro SP2 with every driver and update applied. everything updated.

Motherboard, soundcard, gcard, everything else updated and working like a charm.

Fearing it was a codec conflict, which I very much doubt, I did a clean fresh windows install, but the problem persists.

Any help and/or advise would be great.

Thanks guys.

MOVED TO PROPER SECTION

can anyone please respond?

Please exercise some patience.

Have you enabled Ultra DMA (either Ultra ATA 33 or 66) under respective secondary controller for device? You can either set in bios or let windows select the right transfer mode.

Also, if don't use proper 80 ribbon cable with drive, it will likely downgrade to slower PIO mode.

My ribbon cable is an original protected MSI ribbon cable, and a really beautiful one I might add, so no worries there.

Also, I always re-set it to ultra DMA 66. The only program that backsets my dvd unit to PIO mode is powerDVD, I just tried winDVD and it works like a charm.
What pisses me off is that powerDVD has a specific feature I need and like, which is the numeric menu (the 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 numeric pad) which isnt there in winDVD.

Any suggestions?

I use PowerDVD Deluxe 6 too, but don't use the keypad. Don't have issues with program, but then again I mostly play any retail DVDs on home DVD player with TV. On computer, I often rip/backup just the movie itself or just watch the movie since can't be bothered with interactive menus and chapters/scenes.

Couple things... Is write caching enabled on drive? I would suspect copy protection on disc if slows it down, but not likely the case. Could try other DVD software like ATI and try upgrading the player. Also, make sure have latest nVIDIA Chipset and IDE drivers for your board.


BTW, nice system. very similar to mine.

Hehehe, thanks for the compliment, it IS a nice system. I just solved the problem using winDVD, which absolutely rocks and works like a charm.

Just a quick question, how can you burn mdf mds files with nero 7??? thanks.

No, you can't. You need Alcohol 120%.
Anyway, I see you started another topic so I will consider this issue with PowerDVD resolved.