DVD & CD player's acting very strange!!

this will be fresh thread- No spyware/malware problems!!

have a new system, HP, AMD 64-bit,2.2Ghz,512Ram,200G HD. WXP-SP2 Pro/ Media Edition.

Problem is:

CD's & DVD's video playback has gone from excellent to so-so to $uck,
access to and use Media Player Classic, Irfanview Viewer, DiVx, Nero Media Player and WMP 10. The playback on ALL is junk, 2-3 minute wait to start to play and then terrible playback-jerky, cannot advance smoothly.

Audio CD's works.

Try CD's in old computer and everything works fine-remember, these same CD's worked fine before on new computer.

When i play a video from the HD on any of the above mentioned players they will play perfect.

I don't know if screwed up a setting somewhere along the line.

All the drivers seem to be OK.

Just wierd how it has been a progressive problem.

And yes, Ad-Aware, Spybot, Spywareblaster, Norton AV all running and updated. Zone Alarm running.

This is driving me nuts!!!

Thanks for any help!!

Just in case, boot to safe mode, go into device manager and check those cd devices for multiple installs. If they have multi installs, remove all instances of the installs and reboot to windows. That will let the OS pick them up and reinstall the drivers. See if that helps.

Train, did that, only one install of each device- both stock devices that came with the computer (soon to be changed-i hear santa!!).

???- Should I uninstall both drivers via device manager and let WXP take care of it?

???- Back up what want saved, bite the bullett, and do a Sys/Recover?

thanks for the reply Train, there is nothing more frustating than having a new toy (my shiny new comp!), and having it not running at 100%...everything else is running/working great..so perplexing.

O yeah, I did everything in MS Article 321641, and yet no joy.

Remove the drivers and reboot. Yes, they could be corrupted. Does not happen often, but does.

Then we will see as there are a couple other tricks that can be done before any sys/recovery as you call it.

Backup! Just a pet thing I have, as so many folks fail to back things up, they lose everything when something goes wrong. That lose can be avoided and so easily too.