RoShamBo

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All

Just got an IBM Thinkpad T20 at work with DVD player but have been told by our teccies that there are no drivers available for DVD with NT4 on the thinkpad ???
Anyone know where I could find some - as I am sure there must be some somewhere ?

Any ideas?

Ro

Dr Hu

The new version of WinDVD 2000 (2.3 I got)supports NT4 - must have service pack 6 on it though.

Mind you it whops the processor - I've got a IBM 300GL PIII 500 196Mbs and its going FLAT out !!!

How much video ram have you got - mine just a crappy 8MB no9 ****ey vid card and its pants.

You can find the latest version of WinDVD on a few of the 'TESTING' try before you buy type sites.......

Hope this helps

Dr Hu

P.S - This is the ONLY software solution for NT4 at the mo as Intervideo the makers of WinDVD made a big song and dance about how brilliant they were to get it to work when no-one else could...!!

Mr Footlong

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Just a quick thing. It's all well and good getting hold of the above software, but do you have DMA support enabled under NT4. This is a pretty important pre-requisite for decent streaming from the DVD drive. NT4 did not support this out of the box. It became available to enable IDE DMA support from SP4 onwards. I have always manually enabled it upon install of SP4 then sp'd up to 5-6A. 5 and 6A might already have the registry variables installed and set, I don't know. Use sp6A (Must be 6A, 6 a tad buggy to put it mildly. If OEM installed OS, then the DMA stuff may already be set. If not, then your PC HD speed will also increase nicely and use virtually no CPU time in the process.

If you are not sure about the above stuff, then reply and I can help further.

Nick

Dr Hu

the WinDVD install checked for the DMA status then offered to install the IntelATA drivers for DMA.

Seemed to work OK.