Hi,

First, here are my related PC specs (it's a Dell Dimension 8250)
- Win XP Pro SP1
- P4 2.52
- 512 RAM
- GeoForce4 MX 420 Graphics
- Sount Blaster Live Series
- Sony DVD -RW DRU-820A
- NEC CD-RW 9300A

I have an odd problem playing DVD's and CD's. Basically, music and
video's are playing in fast forward. Not so much so that you can't see
or hear like a normal fast forward but at sort of hyper speed - maybe
1.5x so the sound is a bit garbled and video is jumpy.

I have had the CD and DVD players working with no problem over 6
months. It all started happening after I rented a DVD that I didn't
notice had a huge scratch in it. I was watching it on my TV's DVD
player and it wouldn't go past a certain point so I tried it in my PC's
DVD player. It played a little further but still had issues around the
same time frame. On my PC it gave an error popup - something to the
effect of not being able to read the DVD. I tried a couple of times
and gave up. But, ever since then I've had the hyper speed problems.

I've done a bunch of troubleshooting already -
- Checked for DMA/IRQ conflicts and don't see any.
- Tried playing DVD's and CD's in different software - VLC, Windows
Media Player, Real Player, Nero Showtime - all had the same issue.
- Thinking it might be my DVD player I contacted Sony, they ran me
through a bunch of updates including updating my ASPI and the DVD
firmware - same issue.
- Uninstalled and re-installed Nero (the suite was bundled with the
DVD).
- Uninstalled and re-installed both CD and DVD players - same issue.
- Finally, I tried the DVD and CD players on a different PC that I have
and they both worked fine.

I am at a loss now - not sure what it could be at this point. I wanted
to check if anyone had any ideas on what the problem is before I go do
a clean install of XP? I'm just hoping it isn't something with the
system board IDE connections.

Thanks for your help in advance.

there might be prob with ur operating system..

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thegonz14 wrote:
Hi,

First, here are my related PC specs (it's a Dell Dimension 8250)
- Win XP Pro SP1
- P4 2.52
- 512 RAM
- GeoForce4 MX 420 Graphics
- Sount Blaster Live Series
- Sony DVD -RW DRU-820A
- NEC CD-RW 9300A

I have an odd problem playing DVD's and CD's. Basically, music and
video's are playing in fast forward. Not so much so that you can't
see or hear like a normal fast forward but at sort of hyper speed -
maybe
1.5x so the sound is a bit garbled and video is jumpy.

I have had the CD and DVD players working with no problem over 6
months. It all started happening after I rented a DVD that I didn't
notice had a huge scratch in it. I was watching it on my TV's DVD
player and it wouldn't go past a certain point so I tried it in my
PC's DVD player. It played a little further but still had issues
around the same time frame. On my PC it gave an error popup -
something to the effect of not being able to read the DVD. I tried a
couple of times and gave up. But, ever since then I've had the hyper
speed problems.

I've done a bunch of troubleshooting already -
- Checked for DMA/IRQ conflicts and don't see any.
- Tried playing DVD's and CD's in different software - VLC, Windows
Media Player, Real Player, Nero Showtime - all had the same issue.
- Thinking it might be my DVD player I contacted Sony, they ran me
through a bunch of updates including updating my ASPI and the DVD
firmware - same issue.
- Uninstalled and re-installed Nero (the suite was bundled with the
DVD).
- Uninstalled and re-installed both CD and DVD players - same issue.
- Finally, I tried the DVD and CD players on a different PC that I
have and they both worked fine.

I am at a loss now - not sure what it could be at this point. I wanted
to check if anyone had any ideas on what the problem is before I go do
a clean install of XP? I'm just hoping it isn't something with the
system board IDE connections.

Thanks for your help in advance.


I think I'd try a differnt DVD-CD drive.

Mark Z.