watching dvds?

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hello i have a brand new laptop

3gig sempron with 512 ram and a X700 and its very laggy playing dvds how come?

Ctrl Alt Del everything so basiclly nothing is running but still the sound and the video play is crap :(

hope someone can help

it worked a week ago fine try now and it wont and nothing has been installed.
 
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Check the DVD drive is in DMA/UDMA mode, as if it's in PIO (which can be caused by various things, including apparently the starforce copy protection on some games) that will cause high CPU usage and low throughput from the drive during use, with the result it will probably stutter.
 
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