S96j sound+video problems...dvd drive?

I'm not sure what it is, but when playing the audio from a DVD, there's a constant, small popping sound in the background. This problem exists in the onboard speakers and with a headphone.

In addition, the video seems to pause, go, pause, go, etc. It's very slight, like half a second go, half a second pause...but it's noticeable. I'm thinking that the DVD isn't reading right, and so the sound is suffering as well as with the video.

The sound from games doesn't seem to have this problem...so..:-\ not sure. Can anyone help me?

 

I tried out some more stuff...and now I'm pretty sure it's the DVD drive. Video playback is not smooth...nor is sound playback on DVDs. But loading stuff that's on the hard drive doesn't have that problem.

Any ideas how to fix it?

 

Seems it's not JUST the hard drive...when I preview songs on iTunes the sound also is messed up. There's a lot of static and it stutters....:-\

 

Have you downloaded new drivers? Go here for a list:
http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scr...466&OSFullName=All Operating Systems&lang=eng

There's a new 9/2/2006 driver for
Universal Audio Architecture (UAA) Driver

Krista

 

Thanks, but I found the problem. To those that are interested:
http://www.techmind.org/dvd/index.html
Windows had my DVD drive set on PIO mode rather than DMA mode.