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hi ,
im new to this board and i need some help/advice please , i have a ibm thinkpad 770 , recently i bought a dvd rom , which i installed and everything works , but when playing dvd's the pic freezes and doesn't keep up w/ the sound . the dvd player# is 11j8952 , my laptop has a pentium 233mhz processor , 128 megs of ram and a 4 gig hard drive i got the player off a website and it installed fine , is there anything else that could cause the pic to freeze and not play smoothly as the sound ? . i thought it was the pentium processor untill i see that other ppl are playing dvd's on a 233 mhz processor on ebay . any advice , help ect will be great,
thanks john

jetrail05 wrote:hi ,
im new to this board and i need some help/advice please , i have a ibm thinkpad 770 , recently i bought a dvd rom , which i installed and everything works , but when playing dvd's the pic freezes and doesn't keep up w/ the sound . the dvd player# is 11j8952 , my laptop has a pentium 233mhz processor , 128 megs of ram and a 4 gig hard drive i got the player off a website and it installed fine , is there anything else that could cause the pic to freeze and not play smoothly as the sound ? . i thought it was the pentium processor untill i see that other ppl are playing dvd's on a 233 mhz processor on ebay . any advice , help ect will be great,
thanks john

Make sure that you have the DEVA board installed. The processor alone isn't capable of decoding the MPEG2 video stream quickly enough.

Here's a thread dealing with a similar question with regard to the 770X:
http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.ph ... light=deva

Some more info:
http://groups.google.de/groups?q=770+77 ... com&rnum=1