From: J. Williams (williams_at_u.washington.edu)
Date: Wed Nov 21 2001 - 19:54:00 EST
Hi,
I have a 770ED also. As far as I know, the counter is reset everytime you
install Win2k (I find it much better than Win 95).
Have you tried PowerDVD or any other player? Some have time-limited demos.
I hardly ever use the DVD to watch movies but PowerDVD work for me a while
ago.
John
On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, Ronald W. Heiby wrote:
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> Hello ThinkPad,
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> 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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