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Windows XP never supported any BD drive to play any BD movie. The workaround back then is to install anydvd hd. Vista was the first Win os to support BD. PowerDVD9 does support BD but only in Vista..
I likely had purchased that drive to eventually swap it into a much newer BD supporting desktop. Again, I only used it a few times for playing DVD (not BD) movies and ripping CD tracks; can't believe it would just die on me. Need it now to load an M-Audio soundcard driver.
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https://www.cnet.com/products/sony-optiarc-bwu-500s-bd-re-drive-serial-ata-internal/
Circa 2010, installed the drive and the Cyberlink powerDVD 9 in an old Dell Dimension 8300, Windows XP Pro Service pack 2, which always runs fine. Naturally, I keep this old pc off the internet and use it only for redundant file backup and sometimes for music, DVD movies.
Checked the BWU-500S’s power and data cables. Device Manager says the drive is enabled and is operating normally. But after I inserted a DVD movie I didn't hear the motor spin up to read it. And in Windows Explorer when I click on the drive it says to insert a disc, which I already did. I barely got any use out of this drive so how likely that any optical or electromechanical parts would be defective? Is a corrupt driver file most likely the problem?
So I went here https://www.sony.com/electronics/support/results?query=bwu500s and entered the model number of the BD optical drive but no support available. I then had no option but click on another Sony support page and found no optical drive or computer accessories to click on, except for Sony VAIO computers, which I knew Sony no longer supported. I then tried to log on to Sony Community forum but my password didn't work. I then tried to reset my password but refused to enter my birthday; none of the dozens of forums I have joined ever asked me that. What to do next?
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PowerDVD 9 is included in Media Suite 8, which is bundled with the Sony BWU-500S BluRay burner I plan to buy.
My current desktop pc is an old Dell P4 3.6GHz pc, 2GB RAM (Windows XP SP2) and ATI Radeon X300 SE 128MB video card. Of course, I won't get HD picture quality from this ancient system but when I install the Sony BD drive and Media Suite 8, won't PowerDVD 9 still play a BluRay movie and output some kind of decent image? As long as I can get standard DVD movie quality I'm happy for now. At least it should look reasonably good since my card's DVI-D output feeds my excellent EIZO HD2442 monitor.
However, does PowerDVD 9 require XP's SP3? I hope not because when I installed SP3 on my Lenovo laptop it slowed down, even its Core 2 Duo processor.
Worst case: If PowerDVD 9 cannot play BD movie discs, can it at least play BD movie disc "scenes"? Is this done by clicking on the disc's Stream folder and then clicking on the largest of M2TS files first? Please advise.
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PowerDVD 9 is included in Media Suite 8, which is bundled with the Sony BWU-500S BluRay burner I plan to buy.
My current desktop pc is an old Dell P4 3.6GHz pc, 2GB RAM (Windows XP SP2), ATI Radeon X300 SE 128MB video card. Though I don't expect to get HD picture quality from this ancient system, can PowerDVD 9 still play a BluRay movie disc on my Sony BD drive? Of course, owing to the old video card, I'd simply see standard def DVD quality,
yes? At least that should look very good since my card's DVI-D output feeds my excellent EIZO HD2442 monitor.
But does PowerDVD 9 require XP's SP3? I hope not because when I installed SP3 on my Lenovo laptop it slowed down, even its Core 2 Duo processor.
If PowerDVD cannot play BD movie discs, can it at least play BD movie disc "scenes"? Can this be done by clicking on the disc's Stream folder and then clicking on of the M2TS files? Please advise.
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