battermoose1

Revhead, I know what you are going thru, My solution was to buy a new dvd rom and install it, I saved the other(samsung 612b ) and am going to try it in a machine that is still using windows me. I will let every one interested know the outcome in a couple of weeks.

;( Thank you to all that helped with my dvd problem. I tried most of what everone suggested but to no avail, so I purchases and installed a new liteon dvd rom for an inexpensive price and all is well. The only thing that i can figure is that this samsung dvd is not compatable with xp and since it is an older model at 12x they didnt bother to create firmware to upgrade it. To all thanks again. I will take the unit and put it in an other machine that is still using me and see if it works.

Quote: Besides the latest DVD codecs, make sure you have the latest chipset drivers for your motherboard running under XP also it wouldn't hurt to check for the latest graphics card drivers and DX9.0b as well I know I have the latest graphic card drivers (catalist 4) and direct x 9.0 but not sure about the chip set drivers. thanks...

Quote: weird?! have you checked the driver? does it play cds ok? can you explore the cd? have you downloaded the dvd codec (divX)? All of the music cd's play fine and I can display contents of the cd's fine. I have loaded the latest driver for the video card (ati Catalist 9000 pro). Samsung no longer supports the dvd Thanks.

;(since I have upgraded I cannot play any dvd's-I have tried numerous soft ware players an they all do the same thing. the unit attempts to spin up but quits and continues to try again any ideas?????