From: Ronald W. Heiby (heiby_at_falkor.chi.il.us)
Date: Wed Nov 21 2001 - 09:32:29 EST
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Hello ThinkPad,
I have installed Win2K Pro onto my 770ED. Calling IBM to ask about DVD
support for this configuration, they helpfully mailed me the DVD
movie player software. I had not yet installed it, though.
I wanted to use my new Star Wars I DVD to access the Episode 2 preview
on the web. Since I was just planning to do DVD-ROMish things, and not
play the movie, it did not occur to me that I might need to have the
DVD movie player software installed. The software on the Star Ward
disc installed, but complained that it could not play the DVD with a
message that implied to me that I needed my DVD software installed.
So, I did so.
(Naturally, before I installed any of this, I was unable to play a DVD
movie.)
After install, I cannot get it to play a disc. It complains that it
cannot find a drive or disc that is appropriate to play. My only
thought here is that back around the time I installed, I had set the
DVD-ROM drive to be drive "Z:", rather than letting it default. (I
don't like having my drive letter float around. If I create a new HD
partition, installed software often cannot find its CD-ROM.) However,
I cannot recall how I set it to Z:, nor can I find a way to tell the
player software where to look for the drive. For that matter, I do not
know where, if anywhere, the software is actually looking.
Also, inserting a DVD-ROM brings up the player that came with the Star
Wars DVD-ROM by default. This one helpfully tells me that it has
encountered a CSS error and maybe I should reboot. A reboot does not
help. Fortunately, it does not seemed to have hurt, either.
Finally, in poking around, I noticed that the system thinks that I
have only ONE DVD region change remaining to me. I find this odd,
because I set it to region 1 when I got the machine, nearly 3 years
ago, and have never set it to any other region but 1. Is it counting
every time I install the OS and it decides that it needs to set my
region (again) to 1 (which it is already set to)? What happens when I
re-install my OS a couple more times, and it no longer can set the
region? Will the install fail, because it cannot set the DVD (which is
already set to region 1) to region 1?
Thanks!
Ron.
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