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**AnalogRocks** · Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 6:39 am Post subject:

I'm using a Geforce 8600 256meg but from uhh...EDIT: BFG XFX I think? The issue I, and everyone else are having is custom timings to reduce over scan.

Although, kinda related but not exactly the same thing....I have a digital temperature display and I have the temp sensor on my video card. Sometimes that jumps up to 79 C then it goes back to 49 C. Kinda funny. The first time it scared me, because it was the first time I was running 1080P for a long time. Then I noticed it jumps around. So far the video card hasn't released its magic smoke.

joshg21 · Joined: 10 Jan 2008 Posts: 25

any thoughts on the playback. I have the hddvd on my hard drive now but play back is still choppy.

**AnalogRocks** · Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 7:24 am Post subject:

Hmmmm strange. What disk did you use?

joshg21 · Joined: 10 Jan 2008 Posts: 25

king kong hd dvd

**AnalogRocks** · Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 7:59 am Post subject:

What resolution are you playing back at?

joshg21 · Joined: 10 Jan 2008 Posts: 25

when I was playing I did not attempt to change the resolutions thru PowerDVD. Is that what I should have done? My monitor is only 720p so that would be ideal for know. Also I was wondering if this has to do with not having a PureVideo HD driver for xp? I was hoping to get that soon so I do not need to upgrade to vista.

**AnalogRocks** · Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 9:23 am Post subject:

Hmm I've never heard of a Pure Video driver. Maybe it's included with the Nvidia driver's? I do remember when I first set up my Xbox 360 drive and ran Power DVD Ultra it wanted me to update my video driver with the lattest. All I had running previously was the one that came with the video card on the CD.

**AnalogRocks** · Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 10:04 am Post subject:

See this thread:

http://www.curtpalme.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7971&postdays=0&postorder=asc&&start=20

Wan man had to reset his BIOS to defaults to make the chop chop video play smooth.

joshg21 · Joined: 10 Jan 2008 Posts: 25

I alredy reset by bios back to the factory settings. My bios is locked down being that it is a compaq board. I do not think that i have the same access to the settings that Wan Man does.

oliverg · Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 10:00 pm Post subject:

I just whizzed through the thread - Try updating your chipset drivers. Is your XP genuine?

If you have it in your budget, upgrade your motherboard and processor. On paper, it should be OK but based on the problems you've been having it might be prudent to try the bulk of the remainder of your PC with a new motherboard and processor. Have you switched on hardware acceleration in P/DVD?

If you havea friendly dealer, see if you can borrow a mobo/processor. Take a look here: http://www.intel.com/products/chipsets/G33/index.htm

Either that or a 965 express based chipset (tried and proven)
http://www.intel.com/products/chipsets/g965/index.htm

IMHO - anything AMD should be avoided - there is alot of speculation about the company being in serious trouble. All the current range of Intel CPUs totally outperform their AMD equivelants and the lower end Intels are now quite affordable.

Good luck

joshg21 · Joined: 10 Jan 2008 Posts: 25

I finally got this drive to work. Since I was having some playback on the drive I thought that it might be my VIA 1394 controller. I did some searching on the net and found an optional download from microsoft that stated that it was a hotfix for problems playing audio and video through the 1394 controller. So I downloaded the update and blammo: it works. Even my crappy HP board with the ATI chipset. The picture looks great and the audio is so good. I did notice one thing: I still cannot get burst rate speeds from Nero on the drive. Everytime I run it at the end it says the speeds are 0. I am going to try to USB to SATA adapter, but I also got wind that one of my friends has a SATA to PCI adapter that might work. But for now it is going to be a joint to the dome, a beer in my hand and a whole lot of HD.

MikeEby · Joined: 24 Jun 2007 Posts: 5238 Location: Osceola, Indiana

**AnalogRocks** · Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 2:01 am Post subject:

I HATE software! Glad you got it going. Thumbs Up

jask · Joined: 17 Mar 2006 Posts: 10165 Location: kamloops BC

good to hear!!

lyd · Joined: 15 Sep 2007 Posts: 390 Location: Lake Mills, Wi

Glad things are working.

I may have missed something, but if the only UDF driver posted was the one AR linked, then I have an alternative. (For the next guy, or whatever.) The Adaptec one gave me problems. I used this instead. I found it in this digital-digest.com thread originally, but it is mentioned elsewhere too.

lyd

Agent_Link_Dark · Joined: 15 Feb 2008 Posts: 7

hay guys. i have been surfing the net for help and stumbled upon you guys. i belive i have the exact same problem. im using an ASUS m2a-vm hdmi its using an ATI sata controler. and im having a hell of a time geting my drive to cooperate. i was using the drive in my gaming/workstation pc with an ASUS a8r32-mvp and i had the drive hooked up to a silicon image sata controler. it worked flawlessly.

but now in my HTPC i finaly got the drive to play but am having the sh*tty play back problem where it skips and jumps and just cant play it. power dvd is crashing sometimes to. im using the same version that analogrocks posted

also the UDF 2.5 and any other UDF driver i try still wont read the disk (havent tryed the one lyd posted, will when i get home) . shows up as 0 bytes but i did get it to play (not realy.)

any suggestions or insight into when LG is going to release there new firmware?
ill probly try the sata to usb but will it solve my problem? i just want it to play back smooth is all realy

thanks.

i could buy a controler with a silicon image controler from my work, only problem is i have no free pci slots.

specs.

M2A-VM HDMI
AMD 5200+ x2 (not the 65 watt Sad

)
using onboard x1250 (soon to get a 3450)
TV wonder VE
Audigy 2
samsung 250gb HDD
LG 3164b
LG GGC-H20L
Enermax 535w

Testing with Batman begins HDDVD

**AnalogRocks** · Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 5:52 pm Post subject:

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