newbie needs help with pc-dvd please.

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i recieved as a gift an un-opened creative labs pc-dvd 5x drive with a dxr3 decoder card.
os is win98se/128mb pc100ram/sb16 audiocard/stb velocity128 agp videocard/ms-1569mobo/amd k6-2 300 cpu.
out of 8 dvd movies we were able to watch just 3 !
the other 5 movies would all start and within 5sec-90sec would just stop outputting video to the toshiba tv or the pc monitor but still ouputting audio to the tv.
the other 3 movies would play just fine no matter where you started/paused/ff/rw.
tried cleaning the 5 dvd's even though they looked clean anyway and it made no difference at all.
makes no difference whether pc-dvd goes through the vcr or direct to the tv.
was about to do a re-install but then tried one of the movies that was ok and everything was fine.
tried any of the other movies that didnt play and they still didnt play so i decided to not do the re-install.
i am stymied.
movies that play -->baby mozart child educational movie/seven samurai/puppetoon movie tribute to george pal
movies that dont play -->elizabeth/dr. strangelove/to kill a mockingbird/young frankenstein/raging bull
nothing on the computer has changed since the initial installation.
anyone have any ideas ?
ive already exhausted the troubleshooting faq's at creative and in the manual and on-screen.
thanks for any help.

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Topic - newbie needs help with pc-dvd please. - snkby 02:21:28 05/03/01 (3)

For more replies... - Dan Goldfarb 16:15:34 05/03/01 (1)

thanks dan ! greatly appreciated ! nt - snkby 18:57:46 05/03/01 (0)

Re: newbie needs help with pc-dvd please. - Roland 09:15:14 05/03/01 (0)

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