Weird, sound with my movies but no video

[yourkeylady]

I've searched the web to solve this problem with no results. We have dvd's from blockbuster which we can hear but no video output. It's being viewed on a monitor hooked to the pc. We also downloaded WinDVD and the codec for it, but no results. So as a last resort we formatted the harddrive and reinstalled windows. Now we have a clean machine with no video.

*&^%#$@! What do we do now? is it software or hardware???

Thanks
Tricia

 

[vacunita]

Does the PC have another monitor hooked up to it in addition to the one you are trying to view the movies on?

Is the Monitor that you are using set up as the primary display, DVD's have special copyright that prevents them from being watched in anything but the primary display of a Computer.

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[yourkeylady]

No, just one monitor is hooked up.

Thanks
Tricia

 

[Nelviticus]

Have you installed drivers for your graphics card (or on-board graphics)? Windows might be using its default VGA driver, which could be the problem. If so, download the right drivers from

http://www.nvidia.com,

http://www.ati.com

or

http://www.intel.com

depending on your hardware.

Regards

Nelviticus

 

[Lemon13]

verify that u have the propper video codec

 

[yourkeylady]

We unplugged the CDROM and put in only the DVD.

Now the DVD works but we have no CDROM.

We downloaded the codecs for WinDVD

Thanks
Tricia

 

[spudnuts]

Make sure your CD/DVD drives are configured or jumped correctly (Master/Slave). If everything works when you disconnect the CDROM then i'd say that something is wrong with the drives connection/config.

Since you have 2 optical drives, I would put them both on one IDE (prefer Secondary). Make one master and the other slave, NOT CS (cable select). Your hard drive(s) should be on the primary IDE but what ever way the hard drives are configured, keep it. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Information Assurance,CCNP,CST

 

[torturedmind]

what media player are you using to play your dvd movie?

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