Commercial DVDs won't play after XP re-install

Due to a severe virus attack, I formatted my drive and re-installed
WinXP MC from the Dell CD's that came with my Dimension 8400. My 2 DVD
drives, which were working perfectly before the install, will not play
commercial DVD's now. Home-made DVD's play fine, and data and music
disks play as well. I have tried 6 different players (ATI which came
with my video card and worked before; Media Center, Inter-actual,
PowerDVD, RealDVD and Windows Media Player), all open up, but I get a
black screen shortly afterward. They don't seem to freeze (as I don't
get the "Not Responding" message in Task Manager). They just seem to be
stuck in a loop of sorts. I have checked each drive's Region Code
setting in their Properties, and they are both marked as being set to
Region 1 with 4 changes left. Occasionally, I can get as far as the FBI
warning page, but that's about as far as I can get.

You may have too many DVD viewing apps installed..? Pick just one or two and
choose one as the default..Make sure it is updated too, the video cards apps,
decoders, etc, should stay and MP9-10..
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;321641
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/u...ptember16.mspx
Food for thought..
j;-j

"SmurfitTom" wrote:

> Due to a severe virus attack, I formatted my drive and re-installed
> WinXP MC from the Dell CD's that came with my Dimension 8400. My 2 DVD
> drives, which were working perfectly before the install, will not play
> commercial DVD's now. Home-made DVD's play fine, and data and music
> disks play as well. I have tried 6 different players (ATI which came
> with my video card and worked before; Media Center, Inter-actual,
> PowerDVD, RealDVD and Windows Media Player), all open up, but I get a
> black screen shortly afterward. They don't seem to freeze (as I don't
> get the "Not Responding" message in Task Manager). They just seem to be
> stuck in a loop of sorts. I have checked each drive's Region Code
> setting in their Properties, and they are both marked as being set to
> Region 1 with 4 changes left. Occasionally, I can get as far as the FBI
> warning page, but that's about as far as I can get.
>
>