Media Center blank screen & Screen Saver hangs

>I have installed Vista Build 5728 on my Inspiron 8600 laptop. It has a
>nvidia
> geforce go5200 display card.
>
> The problems i have are:
> 1) Vista hangs whenever a screen saver other than the default one runs. It
> just hangs. I am using the screen savers that come with vista.
>
> 2) If i run media center It just goes blank.
>
> I have tried installing latest drivers from nvidia but it doen't help. Its
> the same.
> Any help is appreciated.
> Thanks

> How much memory onboard your 5200 card?
> By the latest drivers I assume you mean th 96.33 drivers for you CPU X86 or
> 64 bit.
> Did you have a previous of Vista working on your laptop?
>
> "Praveen" <Praveen@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:904F049B-4151-415F-923B-E106C5980C61@microsoft.com...

> >I have installed Vista Build 5728 on my Inspiron 8600 laptop. It has a
> >nvidia
> > geforce go5200 display card.
> >
> > The problems i have are:
> > 1) Vista hangs whenever a screen saver other than the default one runs. It
> > just hangs. I am using the screen savers that come with vista.
> >
> > 2) If i run media center It just goes blank.
> >
> > I have tried installing latest drivers from nvidia but it doen't help. Its
> > the same.
> > Any help is appreciated.
> > Thanks

>
>
>

> JW I have 30MB on the card, and 127 mb of shared mem. CPU is X86.
> yeah i used 96.33 drivers. I actually had to change the inf file to
> install
> them. but they were of no use. excact same behaviour with them too.
>
> This is the first time that i installed vista on that laptop.
>
> "JW" wrote:
>

>> How much memory onboard your 5200 card?
>> By the latest drivers I assume you mean th 96.33 drivers for you CPU X86
>> or
>> 64 bit.
>> Did you have a previous of Vista working on your laptop?
>>
>> "Praveen" <Praveen@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:904F049B-4151-415F-923B-E106C5980C61@microsoft.com...

>> >I have installed Vista Build 5728 on my Inspiron 8600 laptop. It has a
>> >nvidia
>> > geforce go5200 display card.
>> >
>> > The problems i have are:
>> > 1) Vista hangs whenever a screen saver other than the default one runs.
>> > It
>> > just hangs. I am using the screen savers that come with vista.
>> >
>> > 2) If i run media center It just goes blank.
>> >
>> > I have tried installing latest drivers from nvidia but it doen't help.
>> > Its
>> > the same.
>> > Any help is appreciated.
>> > Thanks

>>
>>
>>

> It may be that Vista is not recognizing that you have more then 32MB on
> your 5200 card available. Does the additional memory show up in the
> system BIOS as allocated?
>
> "Praveen" <Praveen@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:00974180-426B-4F30-B297-420DB46574FE@microsoft.com...

>> JW I have 30MB on the card, and 127 mb of shared mem. CPU is X86.
>> yeah i used 96.33 drivers. I actually had to change the inf file to
>> install
>> them. but they were of no use. excact same behaviour with them too.
>>
>> This is the first time that i installed vista on that laptop.
>>
>> "JW" wrote:
>>

>>> How much memory onboard your 5200 card?
>>> By the latest drivers I assume you mean th 96.33 drivers for you CPU X86
>>> or
>>> 64 bit.
>>> Did you have a previous of Vista working on your laptop?
>>>
>>> "Praveen" <Praveen@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>>> news:904F049B-4151-415F-923B-E106C5980C61@microsoft.com...
>>> >I have installed Vista Build 5728 on my Inspiron 8600 laptop. It has a
>>> >nvidia
>>> > geforce go5200 display card.
>>> >
>>> > The problems i have are:
>>> > 1) Vista hangs whenever a screen saver other than the default one
>>> > runs. It
>>> > just hangs. I am using the screen savers that come with vista.
>>> >
>>> > 2) If i run media center It just goes blank.
>>> >
>>> > I have tried installing latest drivers from nvidia but it doen't help.
>>> > Its
>>> > the same.
>>> > Any help is appreciated.
>>> > Thanks
>>>
>>>
>>>

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