Play DVD = restart! help!

[drewster2100]

Hello all, i am having problems trying to fix my friends comp, every time they play a dvd, it goes about 20 seconds into it and restarts. But only with dvds in dvd player, dvds off of hd work fine. they have a radeon 7000 and a generic dvd player (ripping also works fine) so any help would be great, thank you.

[Mr.ZAk]

be sure to have the lastest catalyst driver (ver 3.7)

and make sure you put the right Ide of the dvd (if its not usb already)

[mimeryme]

What's his PC specs? CPU, Mem, # of HDDs/Optical Drives, and PSU?

[drewster2100]

nothing! grrr.. as for specs, it is a 2.0 intel ( i think) 1 20gb hd, and (i think) a 300 psu.

could the psu be too weak? (/has that happened before)

there has never been a problem before, with the old vid card, or the new one for quite a while, i still dont know if i really want to put in the time to fix it, the chick turned into a skimpin bitch.... any ideas?

[mimeryme]

That casts a doubt that the fault is w/ the PSU, but depending on the brand, its performance may have degraded over time.