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March 2nd, 2006 22:00

Cpu usage and DVD skipping

I've recently had problems with the DVD player on my Inspiron 1150. It'll play alright for a few minutes then the audio and video will start skipping. Checking the task manager, I see that the CPU usage maxes out at 100 percent when the skipping starts. I've minimized the programs running in the background, and ran a virus/spyware scan, and still the CPU usage will start at ~50% then will slowly go up to 100% and begin skipping. The computer is only 15 months old, and it used to play DVDs just fine. My CPU is a Celeron 2.6GHz. Help!
  • bacillus

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    Posted March 3rd, 2006 08:00

    It sounds very much like your optical drive has slipped into PIO mode.

    You will need to look in device manager under IDE controllers > secondary IDE channel > properties > advanced settings. Ideally, the box for the current transfer mode should read UDMA 2 and not PIO.
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    Posted March 3rd, 2006 11:00

    My current transfer mode for device 0 is listed as Ultra DMA Mode 5. No PIO.
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    Posted March 3rd, 2006 12:00

    my bad, on your model you have to look under the primary ide channel.  :smileysad:
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    Posted March 3rd, 2006 22:00

    You were right. I've got everything working now. Thanks a lot bacillus.
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    Posted March 4th, 2006 07:00

    excellent