Anyone ever run into this before??

[overboard]

GeForce 6600 pci express card. DVD player prob....help!

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HP Pavilion AMD Athlon 64 3500+ 2.4GHz Computer
ATI Radeon Express 200 on board vid card
512 Megabytes Installed Memory
Harddrive 250GB

These are some of my cpu specs.

I just installed GeForce 6600 pci express card and all the lastest games I have work extremely well. But now when I try to play store bought DVDs like Star Wars (which installs InterActual player) they are choppy or black screen and choppy sound. It plays better in WinDVD but its still choppy.

DVDs played perfect before I put the new card in, but I need it for gaming. I don't know what the heck happened here but it driving me nuts.

I'm sure there is just some setting I'm missing here. Any ideas out there??
I attached a pic of what options I have when I open the cards settings.
Could it be a power issue or something?

[Baldrick]

try play with videolan. could be some mpeg2 codec problem and videolan has it own mpeg2 decoder.

and PLEASE try use a subject that describes your topic, I should'nt need to click on a topic rto ead what it is about.

[overboard]

I tried it in that player video lan and the movie WILL play. But it takes about a miniute for it to start and it doesn't run the title screen. Parts of the movie still freeze for a second. I tried redownloading and installing the mpeg2 codec but it didn't make any difference at all.

I appreciate the responce. Sorry about the title.

This is just wierd stuff. I buy a better video card and now watching movies suffers, I don't understand this. Wish I did. Any more ideas friend?

J

[Bjs]

Check in your bios for agp video setup , its most likely here one of the video settings is incorrect .

If all worked before , and then not after new card installed , thats where you should look .

If there is an option that allows you to disable the onboard video , do so , and try again .

Some motherboards also have jumpers to disable this .

[waheed]

What PSU do you have?

Make sure onboard graphics is disabled under BIOS as Bjs mentioned.

[overboard]

OK people thanks a lot. I will give this a try when I get home today and let you know. This just might be the prob! I hope!

[overboard]

As far as I can tell everything is set as it should i.be. I's set on PCI-E, not ONBOARD or PCI. (The other 2 options in the BIOS at startup.) This cpu doesn't even have an AGP slot anyway. I also went into the Device Manager and checked under display drivers. The onboard card is not even listed here. Just the new GeForce and it is enabled and working properly. Unfortunately none of this changed anything with the DVD drive. Avi's and such all play perfect. It's only when I try to run a DVD movie in the drive that this choppy problem occures. Games with 'dvd play discs' that I use, run perfect. This is really burning my brain cells!! lol! I don't know where to go from here......bummer. Someone on another site told me it might be a power supply problem with my HP cpu, but I don't think so.

Let me know if anyone happens to think of anything else.

Thanks.