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  • darkgoth678
     
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    Magician Lord
    Posts: 327
    Dec 30, 2007 8:06 pm PT

    Hey guys im having trouble here, i got an old Latitude Dell laptop for a good deal. it came with a media docking bay and it has a DVD drive but when u pop in a DVD, it plays the DVD but REALLY chopy.

    WHY?

    my best guess is not enough memory, its only got like 640M (yeah, ouch) so i was thinking just a good 2GB memory upgrade will fix it.

    thats my opinion, any other ideas?

    its really my dad's laptop because i have a great PC but he wants it to view emails and watch DVDs. yeah 2 GB seems like alot but it'll last him.

    THANKS GUYS!

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    Hey guys im having trouble here, i got an old Latitude Dell laptop for a good deal. it came with a media docking bay and it has a DVD drive but when u pop in a DVD, it plays the DVD but REALLY chopy.

    WHY?

    my best guess is not enough memory, its only got like 640M (yeah, ouch) so i was thinking just a good 2GB memory upgrade will fix it.

    thats my opinion, any other ideas?

    its really my dad's laptop because i have a great PC but he wants it to view emails and watch DVDs. yeah 2 GB seems like alot but it'll last him.

    THANKS GUYS!

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  • Burdith
     
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    Posts: 297
    Dec 30, 2007 9:12 pm PT
    In my opinion it would be the graphics card in your laptop, I can't confirm though
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acYLkCkfqSk
    In my opinion it would be the graphics card in your laptop, I can't confirm though
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  • Munkyman587
     
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    Dec 30, 2007 9:35 pm PT

    You might want to try downloading the klight complete codec. It comes with a basic media player that can play on most systems (it is pretty basic, and has just what you need to play movies, keeping memory consumption down)

    Edit: Here is a link Free-Codecs

    Edited on Dec 30, 2007 9:36 pm PT

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    You might want to try downloading the klight complete codec. It comes with a basic media player that can play on most systems (it is pretty basic, and has just what you need to play movies, keeping memory consumption down)

    Edit: Here is a link Free-Codecs

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  • darkgoth678
     
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    Posts: 327
    Dec 31, 2007 8:02 am PT

    Burdith wrote:
    In my opinion it would be the graphics card in your laptop, I can't confirm though

    yeah i would think that too but you cant change the graphics card on a laptop.

    the only thing i can change is the memory, the HDD, or the fan (-.-)

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    [QUOTE="Burdith"]In my opinion it would be the graphics card in your laptop, I can't confirm though[/QUOTE]

    yeah i would think that too but you cant change the graphics card on a laptop.

    the only thing i can change is the memory, the HDD, or the fan (-.-)

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