I'm currently running Windows XP home edition (service pack 2 installed). DVD's have normally played fine for me, but now I'm having a problem with the DVD 'skipping'. Every 40 seconds to a minute it'll jump ahead a few seconds... Needless to say, this gets very annoying.

I have tried several different programs, including windows media player, realone, interactive, powerdvd, etc. All of them do the same thing. I've also ruled out the possability that it is a hardware problem.

I'm stumped... It's always worked fine on my computer, but it just started doing this about a week ago. Anybody have an idea what's going on?atl220....... Have you tried .......completely uninstalling the DVD player .......physically unplugging it .......removing its DRIVERS and then rebooting .........make sure theres no referance to it anywhere and then shut down ..... plug the IDE and power cables back in ....start up and let windows find the new hardware , install the drivers and when you get the message that it has been successfully installed try it and see if it still skips ?

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dl65  Have you thought of cleaning the lense?Thankyou for your recommendations. I felt somewhat stupid having not thought of those things. I did each of them... I cleaned the lense, and I removed the drive completely from the computer, and made sure that the computer had completely removed it. Regardless, these things have not fixed the skipping problem. I have tried several dvd's with it, as well as normal music cd's. The problem persists.That was just me by the way. FORGOT to log in. As a side note, the problem is not only on my dvd drive, it is also on my other drive, which is a cd-rw.Questions:

1. Do you experience other problems with your computer?
2. When has the problem first started?

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