My Hp A6750Y DVD player stalls in playback of DVD movies -

A6750Y HP DVD player stalls when playing video back. Sound is fine. Have upgraded HP media smart, still problem. Have tired to update drifver but have not been able to . Current dVD driver is dated 2006. Running Windows 7ii-64bit - upgraded from Vista - from reformat of drive to istall windows i7 -64 home premium
Have tried for 2 weeks to solve this but no luck - -please help.

Hi,
What your seeing regarding the Driver for your CD/DVD Drive is normal. The driver for these devices is supplied by Windows and there is no update. Here's a screenshot of the driver tab from my Bluray drive - as you can see, it's dated the same as yours.
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