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<blockquote data-quote="tigerplanehouse" data-source="post: 1555171" data-attributes="member: 610135">OK, heres the deal. I just got an LG HD-DVD/Bluray player drive for my pc today. I installed the drive via an available SATA port on my mobo. and installed all the firmware for the drive and my PC recognized the drive with no problems, ace. However, whenever I try to play a dvd or place a dvd game into the drive, it just chugs and chugs, locks up my pc for a bit, then does nothing. I did manage to get one DVD to play for about 45 seconds then it just stopped, audio, video and all. Additionally, I got another burned movie to play flawlessly, however, it was basically just a video .avi file placed onto the disc....but it still played.What I&#039;m getting at is, could the drive be defective, or is my system not blu-ray/hd-dvd ready? Is the problem with my motherboard? I used to have 2 IDE drives(one stand alone DVD player and another CD.DVD burner drive) hooked on one IDE cable leading to my mobo. Since this(hd-dvd/blu-ray) drive is SATA only, could the fact that it is not IDE affecting or completely disabling any video capeabilities possible? My HDD is SATA, and my mobo. has 4 SATA ports. Also, ive tried the drive on another SATA port, with no avail.Im completley baffled, please help me! EDIT: forgot to mention that i have CyberLink 7.0 media player which came with the drive as package software to play CD/DVD/HD-DVD/Blu-ray installed, so its not like i dont have compatible software to play the movies.core Rig specs:-Win. XP SP.3-Intel Q6600 quad-core 2.4Ghz-Intel DP965LT mobo.-4GB 800Mhz RAM-500gb WD SATA HDD-Nvidia 8800GT superclocked 512mb (hooked up via DVI to an HDCP compat. monitor)-Creative Xfi XtremeMusic sound card&nbsp;Also, Is it possible my motherboard is getting confused by the IDE drive that is also connected to my mohterboard? Some sort of setting in my BIOS is interfeering with playback? This still wouldnt explain why I got partials of a DVD to play, however Ive read about SATA conectors being &quot;old&quot; and not being able to handle optical rives, but my motherboard isnt exactly &quot;old&quot;, about 2 years old.I just dont understand why a SATA HDD could operate perfectly, and a SATA optical drive won&#039;t. I&#039;m hoping that the drive is just FUBAR and the new one that I recieve works; in the mean-time.... ANY help or knowledge is appricated.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="tigerplanehouse, post: 1555171, member: 610135"] OK, heres the deal. I just got an LG HD-DVD/Bluray player drive for my pc today. I installed the drive via an available SATA port on my mobo. and installed all the firmware for the drive and my PC recognized the drive with no problems, ace. However, whenever I try to play a dvd or place a dvd game into the drive, it just chugs and chugs, locks up my pc for a bit, then does nothing. I did manage to get one DVD to play for about 45 seconds then it just stopped, audio, video and all. Additionally, I got another burned movie to play flawlessly, however, it was basically just a video .avi file placed onto the disc....but it still played. What I'm getting at is, could the drive be defective, or is my system not blu-ray/hd-dvd ready? Is the problem with my motherboard? I used to have 2 IDE drives(one stand alone DVD player and another CD.DVD burner drive) hooked on one IDE cable leading to my mobo. Since this(hd-dvd/blu-ray) drive is SATA only, could the fact that it is not IDE affecting or completely disabling any video capeabilities possible? My HDD is SATA, and my mobo. has 4 SATA ports. Also, ive tried the drive on another SATA port, with no avail. Im completley baffled, please help me! EDIT: forgot to mention that i have CyberLink 7.0 media player which came with the drive as package software to play CD/DVD/HD-DVD/Blu-ray installed, so its not like i dont have compatible software to play the movies. core Rig specs: -Win. XP SP.3 -Intel Q6600 quad-core 2.4Ghz -Intel DP965LT mobo. -4GB 800Mhz RAM -500gb WD SATA HDD -Nvidia 8800GT superclocked 512mb (hooked up via DVI to an HDCP compat. monitor) -Creative Xfi XtremeMusic sound card Also, Is it possible my motherboard is getting confused by the IDE drive that is also connected to my mohterboard? Some sort of setting in my BIOS is interfeering with playback? This still wouldnt explain why I got partials of a DVD to play, however Ive read about SATA conectors being "old" and not being able to handle optical rives, but my motherboard isnt exactly "old", about 2 years old. I just dont understand why a SATA HDD could operate perfectly, and a SATA optical drive won't. I'm hoping that the drive is just FUBAR and the new one that I recieve works; in the mean-time.... ANY help or knowledge is appricated. [/QUOTE]

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