DVD lagging...

Hey all. Hope you can help me out with this problem. Basically I'll start a DVD movie on my computer. Everything is fine till about an hour into the movie then the HD light comes on and stays on. The DVD freezes and skipps maybe 1 frame every 3 secs. But it always happens about a hour into the movie. My computer specs: AMD Althon 1.3 Biostar M7MIA mainboard 256 DDR Ram 40 gig HD (20% full) Radeon VE 32 DDR Soundblaster 5.1 soundcard The DVD player, I think is a delta. Iam running the movie through ATI mulitmedia player 7.6. I have reinstalled all current drivers for my mainboard (south and north bridges) AGP drivers, directX 8.1, 4 in 1 VIA driver 1436. Messed around with my BIOS setting changing the AGP to 1x/2x/4x and the AGP memory setting to 64/128/256 to no help. If anyone can point me in the right direction or have a fix I would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Heath Hill ps: I use win 98se

 

Hi Hill
Welcome to the boards!
Has your DVD player always done this....or did this just start happening recently?

Daizy

 

Possibly a heat related problem, try removing the case/covers and direct a house fan at the innards of your machine. Also check your Biostar M/B CD for a monitoring utility to install, to check CPU temps, fan speed etc. HTH

 

Thanks for replying Daizy and luqa.

It used to do it but to a far lesser extent. It would maybe lag for a sec or two then correct itself and go on.

I thought to it might be a heat thing so I blew out the inside let it sit for hour to cool down and then I booted it up started the DVD and advanced it to hour twelve minutes into the film and it still just froze with the harddrive light on.

Any thoughts what may be happening?
Thanks
Heath Hill

 

Going out on a limb here - wayyyy out.

Could be a swap file problem. Your Ram isn't holding that entire DVD movie in memory.

Based on what you've already tried, I'd adjust my virtual memory to a user defined setting - usually 3 or 4 times the amount of RAM you have. Doing that, Windows should create a new swap file of that specific size. I've never liked giving Windows the ability to dynamically change the size of the swap file as it sees fit.

You may also want to delete all your C:\windows\temp files. Do this from a command prompt so you don't delete files that might be in there when Windows is running.

Not sure if this is of any value to you - just floating some suggestions out there.

Gary