Strange CD sound

[offspringy]

Hello

been having tons of problems with a current pc i built for my other half.

the graphics card is desplaying strange patterns (sometime on boot-up) and some images within games dont load (oblivion items within the menus such as your icon for the sword)

now the blumin cd drive (im not sure it is the cd drive anymore as we sent one back and its still doing the same with the newer upto date one,)


Heres the problem:

Insert disc, eg dvd video (loads up and starts to play) the sound and video then begins to be jumpy, like the music/video will be playing smooth and every 1 second it will slow right down. in a slow motion strobe effect...


Any idea why this is happening because the DVD-Rw is new and be tryed another before this one and that did the same...

Please please help? (could the gfx card be buggerin the rest of the pc up?)

 

[Codmate]

Check to make sure the Drive hasn't fallen back to PIO mode.

To do this, right click on 'My Computer', choose 'manage'.
Now choose 'Device manager'.
Open the tree marked 'IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers' (or similar)
Right click on the controller the optical device is connected to.
Choose 'properties'.
Choose 'advanced settings'.
Transfer mode should be 'DMA if available'.
Current transfer mode should be some sort of DMA mode.
If it is not - first check to see if you have Starforce (malware that comes with some games) installed - instructions here:
http://www.glop.org/starforce/detect.php

If it is there - remove it! Starforce can force optical devices to go back to PIO mode - grrrr!

Either way - if your device is in PIO mode - the easiest way I have found to get it back in DMA mode is to remove the IDE device causing the problem (the one you just right-clicked on, and that was showing PIO mode in 'advanced settings').

After removing it (right click on the device and select 'Uninstall') reboot the machine and it should be detected and installed. Check now and it should be running in DMA mode.

As for your graphics problems...
Sounds like a dodgy card to me - try a different one.

 

[offspringy]

im talking my otherhalf through the install now and shes said that it says the DMA thing (but it says n/a) where its suposed to tell you what kinda DMA its in.

she uninstalled the SF stuff, rebooted (like the site said) now she says her monitor is going to a black screen by the sounds of it every 2-3 seconds (on-off-on-off)

:/

Ill see if i can send the card back as ocuk are usualy very good at their customer service!

Any ideas what it could be still?

Thanks for your time peeps!