some DVD software wrote:Your motherboard is using an ALi, SiS or VIA series of chipset. We strongly recommend you to install the IDE or bus master driver that comes with your motherboard and enable the DMA mode for accessing your DVD-ROM. Not enabling DMA mode or using an improper IDE driver might either degrade the performance of PowerDVD or even prevent PowerDVD from properly executing. For more information about the IDE driver, please visit the web site of your motherboard vendor.
i've installed the firmware for the DVD player off the benQ website, and have enabled my DMA, set it as a master slave, and have checked every setting i can think of.
My problem resides in the computer still not knowing it's a DVD drive. the Interactual software (which was not my choice but what i have to wrok with) Displays the DVD as a half image, which i knows means some resourses are being overworked and PowerDVD locks up hard if i try to play a DVD.
if anyone has any ideas (i've tried the motherboard vendor and HP isn't 'down' with releasing that info)...please email me or post here.
thanks for your time.
