Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 08:03:30 +0000
From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [LIB] OT: Video problems w/Toshiba Satellite 1415-S105
From: "David Hettel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Have you actually tried to change the color depth (from true color) to a
lower version, and not the screen resolution, or size?
Yeah... I dropped the 32bit color depth down to 16bit, and the issue
remained. Dropped screen resolution down to for the heck of it, but as I
suspected, it had no effect either.
There was a longer error message we got somewhere along the line that
mentioned a problem with something like 'multimedia subsystem', but I wasn't
able to get it to pop up a 2nd time to write it all down.
My friend is gone for the week, so I'll see what I can find in the meantime.
One of, if not >the< problem, is that the DVD software isn't seeing the D:
drive as a DVD drive, so no D: drive is being reported by them at all.
That, while the system sees the drive at least as a data CD-ROM. Something
in system settings seems to be askew there, as we see the problem both in
WMP and the Touchstone InterActual Player. There may be something XP needs
to have set, or reset to have software see that D: drive as the DVD-ROM
drive that it in fact is.
The OS should have been completely wiped and reinstalled though. He was
having all kinds of problems with adware, spyware and malware last month
that we cleaned uo to some extent with Adaware. But I think he caused more
headaches by just upgrading the OS from WinME to WinXP, bringing all kinds
of problems along as well as causing more due to mis-matched drivers in the
process.
Matt
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Matthew Hanson"
We're having problems getting a Toshiba Satellite 1415-S105 to play DVDs
from the DVD-ROM drive after upgrading the OS from WinME to WinXP. I
don't know if anyone on the list has seen this problem. But Windows Media
Player is complaining there's no DVD disk in the drive.
And Touchstone InterActual Player 2.0 complains:
"Playback failed due to a problem with the video subsystem.
Lowering the color depth may fix the problem"
But changing the resolution doesn't seem to have any effect.
I suppose I need to take this issue to a video support forum... but I just
thought I'd try here 1st.
