Irritated My drive worked great for a while but now does not want to play any dvd's and if it does its choppy - please help!!

1 Click on MY COMPUTER icon on the desktop. select properties on the pop menu. Select the device manager. All the drives loaded will be listed up. Select DVD drive and see there is no Yellow warning sign next to it. If there is no yellow sign click on this drive and click properties. You will find that it shows whether drive is working properly or not. In anycase you click on the update drive tab and wait for the action to complete. Then try playing DVD. If still there is no improvement go to support section in SONY web site and download the latest DVD drive for your model. Hopefully it should work now.

You can try using another media player.If that does'nt work ,your DVD drive may be bad or need cleaning.Sometimes a bad ram chip can cause the video to mess up.Try playing a movie directly from your HDD downloaded from a website and see if its choppy if its not then its your DVD drive.If it is still choppy it could be the media player your using or it does'nt have enough ram memory/virtual memory.If you have XP change your virtual memory settings and the refresh rate in task manager.(Bring up task manager,go to view tab then update speed to HIGH).

its not a error, your computer is just slow, try using vlc media player to play a dvd and tell me if it plays better

u should to clean the DVD-ROM & check if ur DVDs or CDS back is clear (there is no crashes on them)

Hi,
The options when you play a DVD it will appear when you are connecting ext HD it will not work.
Better you need the play in a DVD Disc to get the good sound.

make sure that you have the latest drivers for your video card and audio cards turn down the visual effects of windows xp to best performance and check all background programs and see whats being used up

Well try the following steps:

1. reinstall the video driver from the support site.
2. remove the primery and secondry channels from the device manager and than restart the system.
3. remove the drivers for the dvd drive from the device manager as well and restart the system
4. try playing with different softwares.

There are many causes one a slow processor speed ( even by pentium III 933mhz stuttered when i was playing divx) two needing to update the dvd software . Third the lense being dirty spay compressed air into the drive.

don't use Windows media player, Try a different one, like POWER DVD or WINDVD I have found playback on these to be better than WMP

First shut down any othe apps that are runnig. Even disable norton AV if it is running while watching a move. Second do a disk clean up from the system tools menu, third make sure windows is controlling virtual memory. Finally get a DVD playe like Power DVD. It is much better at playing DVD's than media player that can be a real pig.