Posted by smurfittom on 01/10/83 11:34

Due to a severe virus attack, I formatted my drive and re-installed
WinXP MC from the Dell disks that came with my Dimension 8400. My 2 DVD
drives, which were working perfectly before the install, will not play
commercial DVD's now. Home-made DVD's play fine, as do data and music
disks. I have tried 6 different players (ATI which came with my video
card and worked before; Media Center, Inter-actual, PowerDVD,
RealPlayer and Windows Media Player), which all open up, but I get a
black screen shortly afterward. They don't seem to freeze (as I don't
get the "Not Responding" message in Task Manager). They just seem to be
stuck in a loop of sorts. I have checked each drive's Region Code
setting in their Properties, and they are both marked as being set to
Region 1 with 4 changes left. Occasionally, I can get as far as the FBI
warning page, but no farther.

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