Comments on: Can’t Play DVDs

By: Tony

Tony — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 19:34:47 +0000

Hi, Jthao. Try the steps in this article to fix the problem: http://www.vistaclues.com/cddvd-drive-is-gone-how-to-fix-it/

By: Jthao

Jthao — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 05:21:04 +0000

This is happening alot from what I’ve seen I’ve tried hours upon hours of reinstalling and updateing to no avail its probably a vista update that screwed everything up. Might just be on certain mainboards or chipsets would need more research and a poll.

By: Linda

Linda — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 05:10:37 +0000

Help! Lots of comments on whats not happening, namely DVDs not playing, but my laptop came with Vista Home Premium, the decoder and whole works. I pop in the DVD, have it all set to play automaticly and nothing. Just hear the disk load and then power down. No message even. So what do I do?

By: cameron

cameron — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 01:05:25 +0000

I just installed Windows Vista Home Premium (64-bit)… everythings working fine, so i popped in Harry Potter, but nothing happens. When i click to watch the dvd in the media centre it just makes noises and loads forever without going anywhere. no error messages, just nothing……

By: Lmindo

Lmindo — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 03:37:36 +0000

I have Vista Home Premium and mine played DVD for the first 2 weeks and now got the same message as Stewart.

Need to fix this problem or i’m switching to XP!!!

By: luminye

luminye — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 14:06:03 +0000

me too, i have premium vista and it says the same thing about not able to play dvd because of problem with dvd payer, decoder, and video card. I been trying to update everything but cant figure out why cant play DVD

By: stewart

stewart — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 13:51:27 +0000

hi i have been having prob playing dvds even
nero will not play it nero seven essentials it came with comp
only had it a day so nothing else on here apart from games that run slow i get this message with media player

Windows Media Player cannot play this DVD because there is a problem with digital copy protection between your DVD drive, decoder, and video card. Try installing an updated driver for your video card.
the driver is updated 256mb onboard via chrome9
and my vista is home premuim 64bit

By: Andre Albert

Andre Albert — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 07:29:09 +0000

my computer has vista home version it got a virus on it and i had to get it wiped then put back on but ive lost dvd player and microsoft works what can i do to get them back