DVD audio problems

Question

Hello, I hope someone can help, I started getting popping, clicking noises from the speakers on my Inspiron 1300 when playing DVDs a couple of months ago, and it seems to be getting worse. I've updated all the drivers, firmware, etc, but that has made no difference. Cd's play fine, and DVDs saved on the hard disc play fine, but any type of DVD disc sounds lousy, and now the video is getting a bit jerky. Tried the usual laser clean, different media players, headphones etc. The problem is definitely playing DVD discs. The DVD drive is a TSST corp DVD+-RW TS-L532B. Many thanks in advance for any help or solutions.

23vern · Answer

done that, all set fine, still lousy audio.

Skybird · Answer

Check that your drive is in DMA mode and not PIO mode here .......

Start | Control Panel | System in classic view | Hardware tab | Device Manager

Click on the (+) next to IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers. Right-click the channel
the DVD drive is on and select Properties. Click the Advanced Settings tab.

Dan David · Answer

Try the following steps:   Click on Start -> run -> type DXDIAG -> Click on OK   Windows will appear , click on NO . Click on Sound tab , reduce the sound bar to one place to left. Click on Exit.

23vern · Answer

Cheers Dan, slight improvement but no where near what it should be. Audio still popping but not as bad. Any other ideas? Thank you.

Dan David · Answer

Try one more thing:   Right click on the desktop. Click preperties option, select settings tab and then click advance button. After that click the troubleshoot tab , there you can see a same slider , just reduce it 2 points to left.

Dan David · Answer

Also perform one morre thing:

Please click on the link Download the utility ,Click on Unzip , it will unzip 1 file then click close, Press start button, click run and write C:\DELL\DELL and file name puchdma.exe will appear, Click on it once and hit enter, (Note: there will be no application that will open), after that restart the laptop.

http://support.us.dell.com/support/downloads/download.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=gen&releaseid=R53986&formatcnt=1&libid=0&fileid=63977

23vern · Answer

Dan, you the man. Job done, thank you very much. A couple of questions, how and why? Also is there any likelyhood this might affect anything else? Thanks once again. Much appreciated Vern:smileyvery-happy:

Dan David · Answer

This is normal in laptops, happens because of hardware acceleration,   Njoy your DVDs.. :smileywink:

Severus S · Answer

Vern,   For other Members that may read this. Has nothing to do with Hardware acceleration, your drive was stuck in PIO mode as Skybird addressed in his first post. Quote: This utility can be used to set secondary IDE CD-ROM devices back to a UDMA mode after the Operating System (WindowsXP) has set the device to PIO mode   Good day, Severus

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