could this be the reason

joemorris86 · 4 Jun 2006 at 13:56

Hey guys, I just brought a new laptop (compaq presario v5000) and for some reason half the time i play videos, it lags and skips, but if i play the same vid from my external hd it plays fine.

I also read on a review of the v5000 that the hd spins quite slow, so is it possible that, that is the problem, its spinning too slow to read the video smoothly?

SiriusB · 4 Jun 2006 at 13:58

Sounds reasonable. If it plays fine on one HDD and not another it is a pretty clear indication its the HDD.

SiriusB

squiffy · 4 Jun 2006 at 14:01

joemorris86 said:
Hey guys, I just brought a new laptop (compaq presario v5000) and for some reason half the time i play videos, it lags and skips, but if i play the same vid from my external hd it plays fine.

I also read on a review of the v5000 that the hd spins quite slow, so is it possible that, that is the problem, its spinning too slow to read the video smoothly?

Is it HD material? I've played movies from 4200rpm HD - fine. Sounds like another problem. Benchmark your laptop HD, and check for bad sectors/clusters, then defragment.

joemorris86 · 4 Jun 2006 at 14:03

the compaq live chat tech said it shouldn't be the hard disc, but i tried doing what he said and it didn't fix it.

what does Benchmark your laptop HD mean? oh, and how do i check for bad sectors.

I defraged yesturday with no luck

Topgun · 4 Jun 2006 at 14:10

Very bizzare. Identify the drive manufacturer from the device manager or BIOS (probably Hitachi, Western Digital, Toshiba or Seagate) then download relevent diagnostic tools from the manufactuers website.

joemorris86 · 4 Jun 2006 at 14:20

found out the make, but the only porgram i could see for ide crashes when i run it, are there any others from this list that would work?

http://www.fel.fujitsu.com/home/drivers.asp?L=en

thanks for the help