600x no longer plays DVDs / videos
Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2010 1:06 pm
My 600x will no longer play DVDs. It plays the sound but the picture just sits there, and occasionally moves to a later still image.
It also won't play a lot of video files (avi, wmv, mp4) that previously played perfectly. They are slow and skip.
What happened is I reinstalled Windows XP SP3. Same hard drive, same DVD drive, same memory, same everything (hardware), same O/S. I don't remember what version of VLC media player I was using. I downloaded the newest one. I do know I was using using Windows Media Player 9. Neither of those is working right on a lot of my video files, and they both worked before (although WMP didn't play all file types - but that's normal).
I did a clean install of XP SP3 on my 600X, and then did all the critical updates from Windows Update. I then installed the following drivers: (display) vftprw2k, (xp-supp) wxpsfd1a (just CStateFlags.reg and monitor ->IBMTPLCD.INF), onscrenkx, (power-mgmt) 1xu105u1, (trackpoint) 78g405ww, (trackpoint-access) 1rg807ww, and (config-util) 7ju501aw. It has/had the latest bios. [The available hard-drive firmware update is not applicable.]
The only other software installed so far is Firefox, Avira Antivir, and Sunbelt firewall. I tried disabling the latter two - no improvement.
After I noticed the DVD/video problems I disabled some Windows services (which I had disabled before - but I don't think it was necessary for DVDs to play) using the "safe" settings at Blackviper.com list. No change.
Any suggestions?
600x w/384MB Ram; 2645-8eu; XP Pro SP3
It also won't play a lot of video files (avi, wmv, mp4) that previously played perfectly. They are slow and skip.
What happened is I reinstalled Windows XP SP3. Same hard drive, same DVD drive, same memory, same everything (hardware), same O/S. I don't remember what version of VLC media player I was using. I downloaded the newest one. I do know I was using using Windows Media Player 9. Neither of those is working right on a lot of my video files, and they both worked before (although WMP didn't play all file types - but that's normal).
I did a clean install of XP SP3 on my 600X, and then did all the critical updates from Windows Update. I then installed the following drivers: (display) vftprw2k, (xp-supp) wxpsfd1a (just CStateFlags.reg and monitor ->IBMTPLCD.INF), onscrenkx, (power-mgmt) 1xu105u1, (trackpoint) 78g405ww, (trackpoint-access) 1rg807ww, and (config-util) 7ju501aw. It has/had the latest bios. [The available hard-drive firmware update is not applicable.]
The only other software installed so far is Firefox, Avira Antivir, and Sunbelt firewall. I tried disabling the latter two - no improvement.
After I noticed the DVD/video problems I disabled some Windows services (which I had disabled before - but I don't think it was necessary for DVDs to play) using the "safe" settings at Blackviper.com list. No change.
Any suggestions?
600x w/384MB Ram; 2645-8eu; XP Pro SP3