When I play DVDs on my computer they skip and sometimes studder but keep playing. I just built this computer mostly new except for the DVD-ROM drive and a few other minor components. What could be causing this? WinXP Pro Core2Duo, 2GB DDRSDRAMII GeForce 6800GT SB Audigy 530W PSU

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If your computer's doing too much in the background it could cause this. An antivirus prgram performing a scan would be a relitavely likely culprit if this is the case.

yes ,this seems like quite a rare problem and is probably a bad DVD -Rom drive,it is mounted level within the computer--check its positioning and mounting screws,beware with the screws are not too long,this would cause an intrusion into the drive itself

a few months ago i bought a new laptop and that had a similar problem playing DVDs with the preloaded Intervideo player. I installed PowerDVD and it was fine with that