Problems playing burned dvds on my laptop

[Swordster]

I have a Dell inspiron 5100 laptop and a HL-DT-ST RW/DVD GCC-4240N Slim DVD player inside it. Whenever I try to play a burned dvd on my laptop it freezes after a few minutes of playing. This doesn't happen on the DVD player in my brother's tower or in our stand-alone player. I tried asking Dell and of course they have no idea. Please help me.

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[ghoster]

you only need to post this question once. not 3 times. posting it more than once just makes it less likely for someone to help you out....

[Swordster]

Well, I just want it answered. This has been bothering me for two months.

[sitlet]

well that still doent mean that yo ahve to post it many times. just post it in the most correct forum ad it will get answered in a day or two.

anyway, does this problem happen if you play it on a standalone player? if not, the problem is with your laptop. try another software, like windows media player, or update the software you have.

[Swordster]

It does work on my stand-alone as I said in my first post, and I updated my software and I tried, WinDVD, PowerDVD and Windows Media Player.

[dafreak]

what brand of disks are the movies burned on?
are the disks r-, r+, rw?
are those type of disks compatible with your dvd-rom drive?
have you checked dell website for new firmware upgrades for your dvd-rom drive?
have you checked the dvd-rom manufacturing website to see if they have a knowledge base you can check?
can your dvd-rom drive read normal commercially made dvd's?
do you have the most updated drivers for your dvd-rom drive/ide controller?
is your dvd rom drive set to pio/dma?

how does it not play? are you able to rip the dvd to your hd and play the movie from your hd? are there scratches on the disk?

a little bit more info would be helpful.

[GabeB]

What's the CPU speed of your laptop?

Does it happen with both + and - disks?

Which program are you using to play the DVDs?

[Swordster]

what brand of disks are the movies burned on? Memorex 4x DVD-R

are the disks r-, r+, rw? DVD-R

are those type of disks compatible with your dvd-rom drive? Yes

have you checked dell website for new firmware upgrades for your dvd-rom drive? Yes and there were none

have you checked the dvd-rom manufacturing website to see if they have a knowledge base you can check? The company that makes the CD-ROM Drive I use no longer exists

can your dvd-rom drive read normal commercially made dvd's? Yes

do you have the most updated drivers for your dvd-rom drive/ide controller? Yes

is your dvd rom drive set to pio/dma? I don't know.

how does it not play? After five to ten minutes of play time it freezes and locks up the program

are you able to rip the dvd to your hd and play the movie from your hd? Haven't tried but I would rather not, cause I have a lot of DVDs and I like my hard drive free

are there scratches on the disk? No.

What's the CPU speed of your laptop? 2.39 GHz

Does it happen with both + and - disks? I don't know. Haven't tried + but I really don't want to as the burner I use is in california and I am in Hawaii.

Which program are you using to play the DVDs? Pleas try to read the posts you respond to. As I said earlier, WinDVD, PowerDVD and Windows Media Player.