Blue Ray Drive

Jun 28, 2009

I just decided to dive into the Blue Ray world. I got a player for me sony bravia.So... I have a open slot for another optical drive on my desktop and was wondering if I can install a blue ray reader and writer instead of a dvdcd drive.I would like to backup some of the blue ray disc's that I have and perhaps watch the blue ray movies on my computing machine. I assume that the blue ray disc's content is much more dense then a dvd and stores much more data.I have DVD Fab 6. Can I get a blue ray drive to install on my desktop that will read and write? and does it depend on the system board as to what type I need to get?My alienware mobile desktop also has an available periphial for another drive and I would like to install one on the desktop and the laptop.

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Blue Screen When Using Floppy Drive

Dec 8, 2009

machine came with vista home premium now have service pack 2 updated, when i try to use a floppy drive for back up or restore i get blue screen, if i go to safe mode the floppy is ok, i also have an external floppy same thing will not work under vista but will work in safe mode, i have also replaced the internal floppy same thing, so i am saying it looks like vista sounds like vista, are there any patches for this problem.

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I'm running Vista Home Premium x64. Yesterday i installed SP2 and after the reboot from that i realised i had the Relevant Knowledge spyware on my startup. I managed to restart in safe mode and removed the relevant knowledge from startup on msconfig and uninstalled it as a program. Following another reboot i noticed that my TV tuner and audio drivers were no longer recognised in the device manager, i also ran a spybot search and destroy to remove any remnants of the relevant knowledge. I guessed that the service pack had probably stopped the tv driver working (as this had happened in the past) so i uninstalled the SP 2.

Following the reboot i got the blue screen of death, but was able to boot from my Vista CD to repair windows, this went through a series of checks but found no memory problems, following yet another reboot i got taken to the system startup and chose to boot into safe mode just to make sure, this was unsuccessful. Things have gone from bad to worse, my cd drive is connected by USB and this is no longer recognised so i cant even boot from cd, and no matter how i choose to start the computer (safe mode, with networking, command prompt, last known good config) the computer just restarts and brings me back to the same screen. I know that this is not good, but would prefer to try and fix myself rather than pay to have it done, any solutions?

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Sep 3, 2009

When I disconnect my external drive via the safely remove hardware icon I end up with a blue screen. I am currently using vista 64 bit operating system.

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Sep 19, 2008

I just finished setting up my Media Center on Vista Home Premium, got all the latest drivers and SP1 and updates. DVD playback is giving me some trouble though, and I've resorted to playing them on my 4-5 year old DVD player instead, which is just plain stupid when I have this whole machine set up with Vista Media Center. I've experienced several problems:

1) No sound.

I have the sound card stereo cable going into the back of the TV, it's possible that VMC isn't downsampling the 5.1 audio to stereo and that it's outputting it over a different port.

2) Drive noise

VMC spins up the drive, as if it's buffering up, then slows it down, then spins it up again, then slows down. It's really annoying as you can imagine. Is there a way to make it read the DVD video disc at a constant, lower speed? Say 2x or 4x ?

3) Jittery image

When played on a standalone player the DVD is fine. However on Vista Media Center it's a bit "jumpy". You can see this quite clearly for example on the credits, text appears (for example film title) and it's jittery, moving up and down a tiny bit. On the standalone player its perfectly stable.

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i was installing my farcry 2 pc game on my computer but suddenly i got a blue screen and then i heard my hard drive loose speed and automatic restart why tis happen (after the restart everything was back to normal i install the game and play perfectly) i am using windows vista x32bit ultimate. here is the report

Problem signature
Problem Event Name: BlueScreen
OS Version: 6.0.6001.2.1.0.256.1
Locale ID: 1037
Files that help describe the problem (some files may no longer be available)
Mini122008-01.dmp
sysdata.xml
Version.txt
View a temporary copy of these files
Warning: If a virus or other security threat caused the problem, opening a copy of the files could harm your computer.
Extra information about the problem
BCCode: 1000007e
BCP1: C0000005
BCP2: 81A54890
BCP3: 8B357A30
BCP4: 8B35772C
OS Version: 6_0_6001
Service Pack: 1_0
Product: 256_1

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does the normal stuff like loading software and starting the wireless internet connection via Netgear, opening some windows/programms I will close. All normal, but than comes a Blue Screen and very fast shut down of system with restart. Hardly can read the message...Look like Blue Screen appears when to much action is going on like opening of IE and Outlook... or open to many windows... or some bad programm/hardware is booting. But when I restart, restart gives a different blue screens and trouble is much earlier or directly after registering to the system.

But all starting or booting turn slower, real slow now. Start in --safe mode with net working-- the PC works, but the PC can't handle heavy workloads, is really slow in action. I cannot open --My pictures-- to see all picture files displyed on screen (2.7 GB) (the process trying to access the files in safe mode is real slow) and when I attempt to transfer the file to a USB stick, the computer is stopping in middle of action (after 50% transfer)..........