Problem occurred again, tried restart and this time everything is working
fine and has been stable. Will monitor to see if I can identify any cause.
Thanks.

"mvgberg" wrote:

> no, I have not tried that. I really don't even know how long it has been
> happening since I discovered it pretty much by accident. I rarely turn on
> the speaker. But a couple weeks ago there was no audio, so I tried the
> different applications to see if any had audio and that is when I noticed the
> messed up video. I had never had that problem before, although I rarely play
> a DVD. Since a restart worked then I pretty much thought it was OK. Then it
> happened again and the restart did not help.
>
> "Cari (MS-MVP)" wrote:
>
> > Did you try System Restore to when all worked fine?
> > --
> > Cari (MS-MVP) Printing & Imaging
> > www.coribright.com/windows
> >
> > "mvgberg" <mvgberg@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:418672B9-520B-4AF1-8AA9-E02D61ECBB6F@microsoft.com...
> > > running windows xp media center edition with sp3 on dell desktop.
> > > have encountered following problems which seem to occur randomly and all
> > > at
> > > same time.
> > >
> > > 1. when play dvd using media center there is no audio and dvd runs like it
> > > is in fast forward.
> > > 2. when play same dvd using power dvd 5.0 there is no audio and dvd runs
> > > jerky
> > > 3. when play music in media player 11 there is no audio and progress bar
> > > runs like fast forward.
> > >
> > > when first encounterd did a restart and all was well, but last time
> > > occurred
> > > restart did not fix.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >