Recent content by dandv

Checking the BIOS revealed that DMA Transfers were enabled. As a sanity check, I disabled them, rebooted, but the DVD drive was still in PIO Only mode. I eventually fixed the problem in a very unusual way. Check this out: I downloaded DVDFab (http://www.dvdfab.com) and noticed that on its...

I have a new Compaq nc6400 (the widescreen version) and DVD playback by VideoLAN VLC or The KMPlayer is very choppy. Process Explorer indicates 40% of the CPU is used by hardware interrupts. The machine has a Matsushita UJDA775 DCD/CDRW drive. I went to the Primary IDE Channel in Device Manager...