Hum, Ho, Disk Drive issue...

Originally Posted by Grigori Rasputin

For the last few monthes, however, the one disk drive, which is a DVD Burner, can't seem to play Audio CDs and the Audio on a DVD without skipping A WHOLE LOT. The video on the DVD plays normally, CDROMS play normally, burned Audio CDs and DVDs play normally on other machines, but for some reason this thing can't handle playing audio strait off a disk.

Let's rule out the obvious first. Do you have DMA enabled for your drive?

Check Device Manager for the IDE controller to adjust these settings.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Grigori Rasputin

You'll have to bear with me, I'm not tech savvy vocabulary-wise... where can I find the Device Manager, I haven't seen it in ages.

Sorry but I was assuming you were running Windows XP, although you didn't supply this bit of information in your initial post. In XP, rightclick 'My Computer', select properties and go to the hardware tab.

Originally Posted by Grigori Rasputin

Also the brightness issue is video files ONLY, so it's not just my monitor (I think that's what you where saying)

Looks like the Gamma settings for your video overlay might have been altered. You should be able to find these settings in the options dialogue for your graphics card.

There's nowhere I can't reach.