XP wont play video files correctly on seconday HDD

[RL]

>-----Original Message-----
>When I try to open a video file on a second or third
hard
>drive, it will not play correctly. It plays fine on the
>primary HDD and if I transfer the file from the Second
>HDD to the primary it plays fine (Videos are AVI and MPG
>and are anywhere from 16mb to 750mb). The playback
jerks
>and stutters along. I have a new Dell 4550 2.66 ghz and
>have tried it with the original video card (ATI 32mb
>ultra 128) and another video card (GeForce 3 500ti).
>Also I've tried it on a HDD formated with NFTS and one
>with FAT32. Tried turning off everything nonessential
>and in Safe Mode, tried it with both Windows Media
player
>and Quick Time, have done all Windows updates, have
added
>extra 512mb of RAM.
>
>Now if I do the same on my old P3 500 with Win 98 and
>384mb RAM, everything works fine.
>
>I'd greatly appreciate it if anyone can offer any
>suggestions on how to fix this problem. My HDDs are:
>30gb WD (boot), 80gb (Maxtor) and 18gb IBM.
>
>Thanks!
>
>-RL
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I finally figured out the problem. I needed to change a
setting in the BIOS. My extra hard drives were being
recognized, but without changing the BIOS setting (for
the IDE channels) they wouldn't operate fast enough to
stream the video.

Thanks for looking though.

-RL
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