can you see the file on the DVD disk or dose it sat there and blink blink at you?.

If I explore the DVD disc (by clicking "select source" button on PowereDVD), the computer can read everything (.bup, .ifo, .vob).
The problem is that during loading through PowerDVD play mode (auto or manual), the "error code: 89020003-The DVD disc might have been damaged so as to inhibit playback operation. Please clean the surface of the disc if possible. If it has been scratched, it might not be readable." comes up. Under Win98, the only time this happened was when the disc was truly defective (scratch or blemishes). When I was running Win 98 and 2000 on the same machine, I had one DVD that would only play on 98. On 2000 the error code would come up.
Perhaps it's my configuration of the prog. or a driver that isn't up to date that prevents the computer from reading of some of the DVD's that I have, but it does play other DVD's with no problem.
 
As for blinking, 2 recent purchases have come up and blinked during the disclaimers/warnings and would repeat them in the different languages then it would shut off (blank screen).
 
I have dx80bda.exe and DX81eng.exe installed.
 
Here is my configuration as seen by PowerDVD 4.0:
 
Player Information :
Player Region Code : 1
Current Focus Drive : E:
Title Region Code : Not Available
Display Information :
Video Mode : Not Available
Display Mode : Not Available
FourCC Code : Not Available
Surface Type : Not Available
Video Attribute : Not Available
Audio Attribute : Not Available
Subpicture Attribute : Not Available
Hardware Information :
Processor: AMD Athlon Processor running at 909 MHz
3DNow! Technology : In Use
Enhanced 3DNow! Technology : In Use
3DNow! Professional Technology : Not Detected
IA MMX Technology : In Use
IA Streaming SIMD Extensions : Not Detected
IA SSE 2 : Not Detected
Video Accelerator : NVIDIA Hardware Video Acceleration (in use)
Multispeakers Audio Device : Creative SBLive! (not in use)
SPDIF Output Device : Creative SBLive! (not in use)

Try using one of those cleaning discs in your drive. Sometimes dust gets in there and causes trouble.

I agree with Davros you may want check that out

Ok, I'll give it a shot.
Thanks.
 
 
Ok, I'm back. Used a cd laser lens cleaner twice before loading another DVD. Tried 2 different DVD's and both didn't play, just the error code again. Checked for the umpteenth time just to make sure I didn't miss scratches and such. Nada. I'm really stumped.

It is possible that the laser is misaligned, but if that were the case, it wouldn't play under 98 and I believe you said that you have some that will not play under 2000 but would under 98.
 
Found this in looking at PowerDVD's board: "PowerDVD might report
various error messages in this situation, depending on the nature of the incompatible driver. However, all error codes have a common prefix
"8090xxxx" or "80axxxxx".
 
This is not a problem with PowerDVD itself. Should you encounter this kind of incompatibility, there are some solutions for this one is -
 
- download ASPI32.EXE from Adaptec to upgrade your ASPI files to the latest version. However, that upgrade requires either an Adaptec host adapter or an Adaptec version of the ASPI layer, which may have been installed by an application or a SCSI device driver, exists on your system. Or You can check if there is an ASPI layer upgrade from your SCSI host adapter or device vendor."
 
Perhaps, it is time to contact support from the manufacturer of your DVD. It could be that new firmware is order.

I did some research into the ASPI32.EXE. I downloaded some progs to find out (cdvdinfo.exe and driveinfo11.exe as well as aspichk.exe) if I can upgrade the firmware. Even with this, I don’t know if I can or not. One website (firmware.fr.st/)stated, “Don't forget you also need a region free DVD software!!! See the link page to find them.” PowerDVD was listed, so does this mean that the software is region free, and what about my DVD-drive? I don’t want to destroy my drive (there were 2 downloads to choose from), nor do I know where to put the “wnaspi32.exe” (I got it from the firmware site) file extracted by the zip. I hope I’m not overloading on the info guys.
 
This is the info I received from driveinfo.exe:
 
DRIVE VENDOR : TOSHIBA
DRIVE PROID : DVD-ROM SD-M1502
DRIVE REVISION : 1008
VENDOR SPECIFIC : 10/16/00
INTERFACE : ATAPI RPC2
SCHEME : YES
SETTING STATUS : NOT PERMANENT
USER CHANGES : 4
MANUFACTOR RESET : 4
REGION CODE : 1
CDR READ SUPPORT : YES
CDRW READ SUPPORT : YES
CDRM2 READ SUPPORT : YES
DVD-ROM READ SUPPORT : YES
DVD-R READ SUPPORT : YES
 
This is the info I received from Adaptec (aspichk.exe):
 
ASPICHK0438: OS = Windows NT (5.00.2195)
UPGRADE1004: c:\winnt\system32\wnaspi32.dll dated 12/23/1997 00:23:24, 48128 bytes.
UPGRADE1062: c:\winnt\system32\wnaspi32.dll version 4.5.7.1008
UPGRADE1004: c:\winnt\system\winaspi.dll dated 12/23/1997 00:23:46, 5600 bytes.
UPGRADE1062: c:\winnt\system\winaspi.dll version 4.5.7.1008
UPGRADE1004: c:\winnt\system32\drivers\aspi32.sys dated 12/23/1997 01:02:46, 23936 bytes.
UPGRADE1062: c:\winnt\system32\drivers\aspi32.sys version 4.5.7.1008
UPGRADE1004: c:\winnt\system\wowpost.exe dated 12/23/1997 00:23:36, 4672 bytes.
UPGRADE1062: c:\winnt\system\wowpost.exe version 4.5.7.1008
ASPICHK0582: ASPI is properly installed and is fully operational. A total of 2 host adapters have been detected.
 
This is what I got from the firmware site:
 
-Toshiba SD-M1502 (16X/48X) 1010, 1012 / 1812, 1816 / 1002 (revB)
(Known firmware : 1008 / 1010 / 1012 - 1002)
You can make your drive region free (RPC-1) by using this patched 1816 RPC-1 firmware (patch by DocteurB).
For newest drive shipped with a 1002 firmware (revB hardware) you can make your drive region free (RPC-1) by using this patched X002 RPC-1 firmware (patch by ChaoticTurtle).
RPC-2

I believe that you change the region five times. On the fifth time, you are stuck with that region. Region free, I believe means that the software is responsible for the region rather than what is set by the drive itself.

You may need to do this
http://perso.club-internet.fr/farzeno/firmware/

What do I need to do SHS? I'm at this site and all I find is this:
13/04/2002 :
- NEW RPC-1 patched firmware for :
Philips DVDRW208 1.61 Patch by Sjwinck
Samsung SD-612S/TGV E1E0 Patch by etna
Samsung SD-616T E304 Patch by etna
Toshiba SD-M1502 X002 Patch by ChaoticTurtle
Added firmware for :
DVD+RW :
Philips DVDRW208 1.61 (RPC-2 firmware, RPC-1 firmware also available)
DVD-ROM :
Pioneer DVD-U05/305S 1.05 (RPC-2 firmware)
Toshiba SD-M1502 1002 (RPC-2 firmware, RPC-1 firmware also available)
 
My Toshiba is SD-M1502 1008. Is the patch by ChaoticTurtle what is called for, and how do I do it?

Take the drivers look for RevB mark firmware Patched X002 or may need RPC-1 firmware Patched 1816 RPC-1 "I think you have this one".

Okay, been busy for the past couple of days.
 
So, I downloaded both patches (X002 and X1816).
 
Now how do I use them (thinking bout using X002). Step by Step if you please. ;( I don't want to do something wrong. Newbee jitters and all. Thanks.

Put the file on a blank floppy disk then boot using a win9x boot disk then pop in that disk with the file on it then type update that all there is to it.
I would try this one first X1816.

Thanks, will do.
 
 
I'm back.
 
Ummm... What does "NTLDR is missing" mean? It wouldn't run the startup disk (plain "bootdisk.bat" floppy). Rem, I'm only using W2K now.

You need dos boot disk like Win95/98/98SE/ME startup disk
If don't have one http://www.bootdisk.com/

http://support.microsoft.com/search/preview.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q249334