newly built... choppy video

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Hi Everybody...
Well, I've been out of the PC building arena for awhile, and have decided to get back into it... (Doom III looks fun!)
Well, here is my setup:
AMD 3500+ 939
K8N Neo2 Platinum Motherboard
1 GB Corsair value select ddr
ATI 9800 pro
Seagate 80GB SATA HD
Pioneer 10X dvd
with Windows XP home edition and service pack 1a

I dont have any games yet, so just as a test i tried to play a dvd, and it plays very choppily. both audio and video. I am just using the motherboard on-board audio. Could this be the problem? I am stumped, but I assume an ATI 9800 pro should be able to handle dvd decoding. Is there a hardware decoding setting that I am missing??

the other problem doesnt have to do with video... Every other time i turn the PC on, it freezes at the user select screen. the mouse pointer wont move and the keyboard wont respond. I reset the PC and everything works fine. This happens every time i turn the PC on.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks a lot!
K.C.
 
your random freezing problem is also probably bios related. are you running your bios settings at setup default???

when i first got the board i left it at defaults and couldnt even install windows without a freezeup.

what i had to do was go in and disable stuff i wasnt using and actually tighten ram timings and a few other things

the defaults loaded like some sort of 4449 settings and the ram/cpu didnt like those when i switched to 33310 they were stable.
 
I had the same choppy DVD video/audio problem on two machines. In both cases, the problem was solved by enabling DMA mode for the drive's IDE controller channel.
 
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