Windows 'chops' after using dualhead for the first time

[Dr_Straylight]

Having used my new G400 32MB for a few weeks now, I was quite pleased with it's performance. The only thing I needed to test was the dual-head feature so I hooked up the G400 to my TV and started playing a movie in DVDMAX mode. The movie seemed to 'chop' once every second ('chop' = seems to stop for a split-second). I though this was due to a slow CD-ROM drive, but it wasn't. Now this thing occurs whatever I do on the PC (ie writing mails like this), even though dual-head has been disabled. What is wrong?? I have tried a lot of things like installing new drivers and running diagnostic programs, but all to no avail...Can anyone help???

My system specs are:

Abit BE-6 motherboard
128MB SD-RAM
G400 32MB / dualhead
IBM Deskstar GXP 22 13,5MB (ATA 66)
SB AWE 32
Pioneer 12x CD-ROM
LG Electronics Studioworks 56i monitor

[Gazza]

Make sure the DMA checkbox is checked under your DVDROM drive settings. This seems to add a huge improvement to DVD playback. I got the same choppy video and lost my patience. I went for the Creative Dxr3.

Good Luck
RIGOBERT