Dear fellow members,
First, and foremost - yes I am a newbie and taken some time to try and resolve my own issues without trying to fob them off, but I have failed. I have read the message about posting information, and although at work and pc is at home I will endeavour to try and furnish the relevant details.
I would only consider myself average in the knowledge stakes of pc's. I understand how to follow instructions, but would never consider myself an analyst capable of modifying programmes in anyway.
So what is the problem. I have a relatively new pc, details below, that until last week I hadn't put completely to the test. I have a blu-ray reader/writer to play blu-ray DVD's on but only purchased a screen capable of HDCP last week, and that is when all the issues started. The system basics are :-
Windows Vista Ultimate x64 Service pack 2
Asus P6T Deluxe Motherboard
Core i7 940 processor
Asus GTX285 Graphics Card with very latest drivers
Asus Xonar D2X Sound Card
Pioneer Blu-ray Writer
Benq 2200HD Monitor
PowerDVD 7.3 Blu-ray Player
Asus Gamer OSD installed
Asus AI Suite installed
Everything was rosy until I installed the PowerDVD to play a movie. It asked me to update which I did then it gave me an error message that dreamscene had been changed, although I had no dreamscene playing in the background at the time. The player came up with an error message that when I followed instructions from Cyberlink didn't go away. I decided to uninstall the player, and it took out the registry in some form for both of my disc drives as they no longer showed up in My Computer. I only knew of one solution which was to reinstall Vista, and probably a lot of you out there are now holding your heads, but I did.
All went well with new installation, all latest drivers, and Vista updates reinstalled and tried Powerdvd again - same problem. Dreamscene has changed, and an error code from player (I think it was 8004014, or something close). I then thought I would uninstall the graphics card drivers and try to reinstall them after player. When I did I noticed for the first time that Windows Updates hadn't offered me the Service Pack 2 Update nor any of the Dreamscene Contents Packs (My Windows cd is Service Pack 1). However on uninstalling the Graphics card they all suddenly appeared so I installed them again. After reinstalling graphics, and Powerdvd I still had the same issues as originally had. No use uninstalling as it takes out disc drives so went into Bios to change start up priority and did a clean install of Windows Vista after formatting drive. Totally clean install ? Well I think so, or as near as I know how. I then reinstalled all the drivers for the system as supplied except the graphics card which I downloaded from nVidia. I religously installed each and every Windows update individually in chronological order when it asked me, and it did not show me the Service Pack 2 update, nor did it offer me the Dreamscene Contents Packs 2/3/4. It did offer me the Dreamscene download and it comes with the 1 background option.
I don't know if this book I am writing should be posted in here, but it seems to be general to me, and the question is how do I watch blu-ray movies, on a Vista Service Pack 2 OS, with all the extras such as Dreamscene I should have after spending the monies on a system that is not the highest of specs, but well up there - I think. Jeez not written that much in a long while.
Regards
First, and foremost - yes I am a newbie and taken some time to try and resolve my own issues without trying to fob them off, but I have failed. I have read the message about posting information, and although at work and pc is at home I will endeavour to try and furnish the relevant details.
I would only consider myself average in the knowledge stakes of pc's. I understand how to follow instructions, but would never consider myself an analyst capable of modifying programmes in anyway.
So what is the problem. I have a relatively new pc, details below, that until last week I hadn't put completely to the test. I have a blu-ray reader/writer to play blu-ray DVD's on but only purchased a screen capable of HDCP last week, and that is when all the issues started. The system basics are :-
Windows Vista Ultimate x64 Service pack 2
Asus P6T Deluxe Motherboard
Core i7 940 processor
Asus GTX285 Graphics Card with very latest drivers
Asus Xonar D2X Sound Card
Pioneer Blu-ray Writer
Benq 2200HD Monitor
PowerDVD 7.3 Blu-ray Player
Asus Gamer OSD installed
Asus AI Suite installed
Everything was rosy until I installed the PowerDVD to play a movie. It asked me to update which I did then it gave me an error message that dreamscene had been changed, although I had no dreamscene playing in the background at the time. The player came up with an error message that when I followed instructions from Cyberlink didn't go away. I decided to uninstall the player, and it took out the registry in some form for both of my disc drives as they no longer showed up in My Computer. I only knew of one solution which was to reinstall Vista, and probably a lot of you out there are now holding your heads, but I did.
All went well with new installation, all latest drivers, and Vista updates reinstalled and tried Powerdvd again - same problem. Dreamscene has changed, and an error code from player (I think it was 8004014, or something close). I then thought I would uninstall the graphics card drivers and try to reinstall them after player. When I did I noticed for the first time that Windows Updates hadn't offered me the Service Pack 2 Update nor any of the Dreamscene Contents Packs (My Windows cd is Service Pack 1). However on uninstalling the Graphics card they all suddenly appeared so I installed them again. After reinstalling graphics, and Powerdvd I still had the same issues as originally had. No use uninstalling as it takes out disc drives so went into Bios to change start up priority and did a clean install of Windows Vista after formatting drive. Totally clean install ? Well I think so, or as near as I know how. I then reinstalled all the drivers for the system as supplied except the graphics card which I downloaded from nVidia. I religously installed each and every Windows update individually in chronological order when it asked me, and it did not show me the Service Pack 2 update, nor did it offer me the Dreamscene Contents Packs 2/3/4. It did offer me the Dreamscene download and it comes with the 1 background option.
I don't know if this book I am writing should be posted in here, but it seems to be general to me, and the question is how do I watch blu-ray movies, on a Vista Service Pack 2 OS, with all the extras such as Dreamscene I should have after spending the monies on a system that is not the highest of specs, but well up there - I think. Jeez not written that much in a long while.
Regards
My Computer
System One
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- Manufacturer/Model
- DinoPC
- CPU
- Core i7 940 4x2.93 Ghz Socket1366
- Motherboard
- Asus P6T Deluxe V2
- Memory
- 6Gb Corsair Dominator (DDR3)1333Mhz
- Graphics Card(s)
- nVidia Geforce GTX 285 1Gb
- Sound Card
- Asus Xonar D2X PCI-E 7.1
- Monitor(s) Displays
- Benq E2200HD
- Screen Resolution
- 1920X1080
- Hard Drives
- Western Digital Velociraptor 300Gb 10,000RPM
A.N.Other 450Gb
- PSU
- Coolermaster Real Power 1500w
- Case
- Coolermaster Cosmos Type-S
- Cooling
- Standard CPU Heatsink and fan
- Keyboard
- Logitech MX5000
- Mouse
- Logitech MX5000
- Internet Speed
- 8MB
