DVD's on my laptop play slow :mad:

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Cat Fuzz

Cat Fuzz

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What the heck is up here? This thing used to play DVD's perfectly and it had less RAM before. ALOT less. I have over 1gig of RAM in this thing now. I tried different players, tried shutting down every non-essential process and program. Scanned for virii, malware, ad-ware, spyware, underware, warewolves, etc. I recently defragged my HD and defragged and cleaned my registry. This POS still runs slower than crap. CPU maxes out at 100% when playing DVD's and the video is slow and the audio is choppy.

Like I said, not too long ago it played them perfectly with less RAM. Someone by me a new laptop. Or help me fix this one.

Specs:
2.8 Celery
1.2Gigs RAM
over 20gigs free HD space
ATI Mobility Radeon vid card

Eh, thats all. I'm currently ripping an image of the DVD to my HD to see if it runs better that way.
 
Cat Fuzz

Cat Fuzz

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I'm in a motel in Boise. Hammers cost extra.

The image runs perfectly which reminds me that music CD's even play like crap but mp3's play fine. I didn't think much of it since I don't play music CD's. I rip 'em and then put them in a drawer. So, is this a hardware problem?
 
Rukee

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It may be, do you have the old memory sticks? Wonder if the timings are different and maybe the new sticks are running like mud with the wrong settings? Slap in the old memory or remove the new stick or whatever and see if it helps.
 
Balton

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Cat Fuzz said:
There are no old sticks. The computer came with 256 megs built into the mobo with one expansion slot. I have a 1 Gig stick in there. I suppose I could remove it and see. That would just suckola if my 1 Gig of RAM is actually slowing crap down.
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you can't remove the "built in 256mb ram"? I'd venture to say that here's where your hardware really is crappy.
 
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