No DVD decoder after installing 2000 pro

[phineasfreakears]

After a long battle with my Windows 98 OS, I finally installed 2000 pro. Because everything was so screwed up in this computer, ( I bought it used), I bought the 2000 system on ebay, reformatted, partitioned, and got it up and running. I updated the bios, and downloaded the thinkpad config. utility from the IBM website also. But I still have a few issues to clear up, and any help would be greatly appreciated.
For starters, it will not play DVDs. When I put one in the combo drive I get a message that says there is no windows 2000 compatable DVD decoder installed, and if it could play DVDs before, I may be able to download one from the computer manufacturer, But I couldn't find anything on the IBM site. I did find an upgrade for mediamatic (which was the player that was on it) on a tech page for installing 2000 on a blank hard drive, but that did me no good, as I needed the original version to upgrade in the first place.
Besides that, are there any other updates, upgrades, or programs I should be aware of to make the best of this OS?
Sorry for rambling on, once again any help would be great.

computer model & type: 2645-AAU (600E)
DVD combo drive- Toshiba SD-C2102 OS-Windows 2000, service pack 3

[G-Man]

Read this.

Regards,
G-Man

[n3il]

How about this:

ftp://www.thinkpads.com/pub/DVDExpress-27L2581.ISO

[phineasfreakears]

None of those links worked, however I did find a download off of another forum that has done the job. I'll post it hear so that anyone else with a similar problem can check it out. Thanks for your replies.

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/foru ... dId=117595 - 55k

P.S. after I downloaded this DVD player, I went to the IBM support site and downloaded the mediamatic DVD upgrade for W2K.

http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.ws ... &loc=en_US

[sgielow]

Here is a website that has the original DVD Express that, once loaded,
will allow the upgrade to install.

http://www.thinkpads.com/ftp_resource.htm

I tried all sorts of 3rd party software to activate the HW DVD decoder
on a 770ed with Windows 2000 without any luck. Finally, I had to
set it up under Windows 98. Once I got all the various drivers
installed, loaded the original DVD Express, then the DVD Express upgrade,
the DVD worked fine WITH the hardware decoder. CPU usage remained
at around 20% during playback.

Steve.

[sickofit]

Sgielow......with a 770ED and 2000,you just have to install the Mpeg features for 2000 from IBM and just use windows media player....once you install the mpeg features it will put a DVD Player icon under Entertainment in the start menu.....

Greg St.L

[sgielow]

Tried it already with the 1.03 version of MPEG support (latest).
Unless a newer version of Media Player could make
a difference, I don't think it will work on my machine.
If you have actually gotten it to work with HW MPEG decoding,
perhaps there are other things I will need to play with.

When I researched the problem some time ago, both WinDVD v.5
and PowerDVD programs were only able to run with software decoding.
MediaMatics DVD Express was the only software I could find that
supported the HW MPEG decoding. The problem many people evidently
had (me included) was (re)installing/upgrading DVD Express to the latest
version. (also IBM only has drivers for DVD Express that work with 95 or 98).

Thanks,
Steve.

Sgielow......with a 770ED and 2000,you just have to install the Mpeg features for 2000 from IBM and just use windows media player....once you install the mpeg features it will put a DVD Player icon under Entertainment in the start menu.....

Greg St.L