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Subject: Re: DVD PLAYBACK PROBLEMS


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MIKE DEGEN
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Date Posted: 15:43:25 01/10/00 Mon
In reply to: Patrick Heley 's message, "Re: DVD PLAYBACK PROBLEMS" on 10:54:30 01/10/00 Mon

I AM GETTING MUSIC FROM THE CD DRIVE, AND I CAN HEAR THE MOVIE PLAYING BUT NO PICTURE. THERE MUST BE AN EASIER WAY TO GET THIS GOING. WOULD A TRANSFER OF SYSYTEM FILE FROM A MACHINE WITH THE DVD WORKING BE A WAY TO GET THIS GOING? ANBODY THINK MIGHT WORK?


> Hi Mike,
> As you may have noted from my post from a couple of
> days ago, I also
> am having problems getting the DVD to work. After
> removing and replacing
> the drivers, I was getting the same error message you
> mentioned in your post.
> So I did the routine of following the "INSTRUCTIONS
> GIVEN ABOUT UPDATING THE DISPLAY ADAPTER DRIVER USING
> THE VIDEO DRIVER FROM THE DISK, DELETING REAL MAGIC
> AND THEN SUT DOWN AND LOAD REAL MAGIC..." etc., and
> now no longer get the "does not support a video
> device" message, but still get "MCI ERROR"
> –MMSYSTEM275 cannot find the
> specified file. Make sure the path and file name are
> correct" when trying to play a DVD.
> I am wondering if the proper CD/DVD drivers are
> loaded. Yours may have been removed when
> you reformated you HD. Does your DVD drive work at
> all? (can you read CD's?). I notice that when I strart
> up my machine, the Teac cd-rom drive is mentioned
> (which was the original drive
> in the machine I purchased, and listed below that as
> secondary master is the Toshiba DVD drive, which is
> the type of the new DVD drive I recently installed.
> After installing the DVD drive, I
> did the DVD install as per the instruction sheet (for
> the Real Magic player,etc.), but haven't seen anything
> about loading CD/DVD drivers.
> Hopefully somebody out there can help us shed some
> light on this matter
>
> Patrick
>
> > I HAD TO REFORMAT HARD DRIVE AND NOW MY DVD PLAYER
> > DOES NOT WORK. AN ERROR MESSAGE COMES UP SAYING
> "YOUR
> > DISPLAY DEVICE (OR DRIVER)DOES NOT SUPPORT A VIDEO
> > PORT. A VIDEO PORT IS REQUIRED FOR THIS APPLICATION
> TO
> > RUN" I HAVE TRIED ALL KINDS OF DIFFERNT DRIVERS FROM
> > TRANSMONDE'S, TO C&T DIRECTLY,NONE GET RID OF THE
> > ERROR MESSAGE. IT WORKED BEFORE I FORMATTED THE
> DRIVE
> > SO I KNOW THERE IS A WAY. I ALSO FOLLOWED THE
> > INSTRUCTIONS GIVEN ABOUT UPDATING THE DISPLAY ADAPTER
> > DRIVER USING THE VIDEO DRIVER FROM THE DISK, DELETING
> > REAL MAGIC AND THEN SUT DOWN AND LOAD REAL MAGIC
> > AGAIN. HAS ANY ONE HAD THIS PROBLEM AND KNOW HOW TO
> > FIX IT.
> > MY CONFIGURATION IS AS FOLLOWS
> > VIVANTE SE 300 P11
> > C&T 69000 VIDEO ADAPTER
> >
> > THANKS.

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