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Arno P
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Link Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 4:16 pm Post subject: Let's go for HD HTPC ! And enjoy a GGW-H20L.....NOT! |
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With my CRT PJ upgrade swopping from my 1272 to a 9500LC Ultra I thought it would be a good moment to get a nice HTPC BR drive, so I bought the LG GGW-H20L now that the prices start to be reasonable.
Hooked the drive up to the SATA connection on my ASUS A8V-E SE motherboard and did what had to be done. The Bios sees the drive...good, Vista 64b sees the drive as a HDDVD drive...good....
Two days later...still no disc can be played on that @*!*&^ drive
It did upgrade to the version "3" firmware but no improvement...
Powerdvd (delivered with the package) blanks with every attempt to pla a HD disc in the H20L. Oh yes...one thing does work, I can open it's drawer by pushing "eject" on my pc...Excellent...
Anybody got a clue what it might be before I send this drive back?
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AnalogRocks Forum Moderator
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Link Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 4:23 pm Post subject: |
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Do a search here in Home Theater PCs forum we've had lots of fun with this drive.
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Arno P
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Link Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 5:04 pm Post subject: |
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AnalogRocks wrote: | Do a search here in Home Theater PCs forum we've had lots of fun with this drive. |
Done that....still reading here and there....
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ecrabb Forum Moderator
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Link Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 6:09 pm Post subject: |
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PowerDVD "blanks"? How is your display connected and what is it?
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Arno P
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Link Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 6:12 pm Post subject: |
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ecrabb wrote: | PowerDVD "blanks"? How is your display connected and what is it?
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At this moment it's my samsung 206bw flatscreen (should be HDCP compliant) and on the second output I havegot a moome-card in the PJ....also anydvd (on or off same result).
Videocard 8600GT
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Link Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 6:22 pm Post subject: |
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Weird. Sounds like a handshake prob, but sounds like you have the bases covered.
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Arno P
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Link Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 6:37 pm Post subject: |
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ecrabb wrote: | Weird. Sounds like a handshake prob, but sounds like you have the bases covered.
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Indeed, and I would expect that if you insert a disc in this drive that it starts spinning like crazy to get the TOC stuff...usually drives are not that silent so I should here the noise....and I don't...
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Link Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 10:09 pm Post subject: |
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Try connecting it up with VGA RGBHV(analog). Thats how I run mine no handshake issues at all.
My only complaint with the drive is the 500 watt Blue LED access indicator.
HDCP was an option on an 8600GT according to this link.
http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/article/1848/nvidia-8600gts-and-8600gt/
The GeForce 8600GT will be the first midrange graphic card on offer with an estimated retail price of about $150. The GeForce 8600GT runs at a 540MHz GPU clock and has the option to either use 128MB or 256MB of GDDR3 memory which is run at a 700MHz clock speed on a 128-bit wide memory bus. Obviously it is up to the graphic card manufacturer to decide which memory configuration they prefer, regardless of the total amount of memory used the memory bus will always be 128-bits wide. HDCP support on the GeForce 8600GT is optional as it is not natively included with the G84 architecture. In order to support HDCP the graphic card manufacturer needs to include an EEPROM which holds the HDCP codes.
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Arno P
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Link Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 6:31 am Post subject: |
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MikeEby wrote: | Try connecting it up with VGA RGBHV(analog). Thats how I run mine no handshake issues at all.
My only complaint with the drive is the 500 watt Blue LED access indicator.
HDCP was an option on an 8600GT according to this link.
http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/article/1848/nvidia-8600gts-and-8600gt/
The GeForce 8600GT will be the first midrange graphic card on offer with an estimated retail price of about $150. The GeForce 8600GT runs at a 540MHz GPU clock and has the option to either use 128MB or 256MB of GDDR3 memory which is run at a 700MHz clock speed on a 128-bit wide memory bus. Obviously it is up to the graphic card manufacturer to decide which memory configuration they prefer, regardless of the total amount of memory used the memory bus will always be 128-bits wide. HDCP support on the GeForce 8600GT is optional as it is not natively included with the G84 architecture. In order to support HDCP the graphic card manufacturer needs to include an EEPROM which holds the HDCP codes.
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Ok I will give that a try..."full analog"
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Link Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 5:23 am Post subject: |
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Arno P wrote: | MikeEby wrote: | Try connecting it up with VGA RGBHV(analog). Thats how I run mine no handshake issues at all.
My only complaint with the drive is the 500 watt Blue LED access indicator.
HDCP was an option on an 8600GT according to this link.
http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/article/1848/nvidia-8600gts-and-8600gt/
The GeForce 8600GT will be the first midrange graphic card on offer with an estimated retail price of about $150. The GeForce 8600GT runs at a 540MHz GPU clock and has the option to either use 128MB or 256MB of GDDR3 memory which is run at a 700MHz clock speed on a 128-bit wide memory bus. Obviously it is up to the graphic card manufacturer to decide which memory configuration they prefer, regardless of the total amount of memory used the memory bus will always be 128-bits wide. HDCP support on the GeForce 8600GT is optional as it is not natively included with the G84 architecture. In order to support HDCP the graphic card manufacturer needs to include an EEPROM which holds the HDCP codes.
Mike |
Ok I will give that a try..."full analog" |
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Arno P
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Link Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 5:26 am Post subject: |
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AnalogRocks wrote: | Arno P wrote: | MikeEby wrote: | Try connecting it up with VGA RGBHV(analog). Thats how I run mine no handshake issues at all.
My only complaint with the drive is the 500 watt Blue LED access indicator.
HDCP was an option on an 8600GT according to this link.
http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/article/1848/nvidia-8600gts-and-8600gt/
The GeForce 8600GT will be the first midrange graphic card on offer with an estimated retail price of about $150. The GeForce 8600GT runs at a 540MHz GPU clock and has the option to either use 128MB or 256MB of GDDR3 memory which is run at a 700MHz clock speed on a 128-bit wide memory bus. Obviously it is up to the graphic card manufacturer to decide which memory configuration they prefer, regardless of the total amount of memory used the memory bus will always be 128-bits wide. HDCP support on the GeForce 8600GT is optional as it is not natively included with the G84 architecture. In order to support HDCP the graphic card manufacturer needs to include an EEPROM which holds the HDCP codes.
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Ok I will give that a try..."full analog" |
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Almost I woul;d say....first returned the drive to get a fresh one...just to be sure their firmware update was not the cause (sent out yesterday)
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Arno P
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Link Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 5:23 pm Post subject: |
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Update...I returned the drive and got the USB version...works smooth
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Mark_A_W
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Link Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2008 1:27 am Post subject: |
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I have the SATA GGC-H20L BD/HD-DVD reader/DVD burner, and it works perfectly.
Anydvd fixes any and all potential problems, before I even had them.
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