Media Player and Radeon X1600

> I`ve installed an MSI X1600 256MB graphic card today, yesterday the media
> player videos were working fine with onboard Graphics, yet now the videos
> will not work I just get a green Screen.
>
> AMD 64 Sempron 754 3100+
> 512MB PC3200
> MSI K8NGM-V Mobo
> MSI X1600 Pro TD256E Graphic card

> "carl.h" <carl.h@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:B65D66E1-2D08-4445-97AA-221ACDFF3498@microsoft.com...

>> I`ve installed an MSI X1600 256MB graphic card today, yesterday the media
>> player videos were working fine with onboard Graphics, yet now the videos
>> will not work I just get a green Screen.
>>
>> AMD 64 Sempron 754 3100+
>> 512MB PC3200
>> MSI K8NGM-V Mobo
>> MSI X1600 Pro TD256E Graphic card

>
> You may be a little light on system RAM. The specs for Windows Vista Home
> Basic are 512MB, and for Home Premium and Ultimate MSFT recommends at
> least 1 GB.
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvist...y/capable.mspx
>

> Thanks Travis and Mark but the system was working fine with just 384MB of
> Ram
> uptill I installed the X1600 today, the other 128MB I used as Onboard
> Video
> cache and it all worked perfectly, a little slow in places but media
> player
> played with no problems.
>
> These are the sample videos I`m talking of, I have little else on the
> system
> yet.
>
> If I remove the X1600 and revert to onboard video adapter it all works
> fine
> again.
>
> The X1600 was installed in a virgin state, no driver other than the one
> Vista got itself.
>
>

> "carl.h" <carlh@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:9F88C340-DF3A-4498-AE11-0E3FBBC778BB@microsoft.com...

>> Thanks Travis and Mark but the system was working fine with just 384MB of
>> Ram
>> uptill I installed the X1600 today, the other 128MB I used as Onboard
>> Video
>> cache and it all worked perfectly, a little slow in places but media
>> player
>> played with no problems.
>>
>> These are the sample videos I`m talking of, I have little else on the
>> system
>> yet.
>>
>> If I remove the X1600 and revert to onboard video adapter it all works
>> fine
>> again.
>>
>> The X1600 was installed in a virgin state, no driver other than the one
>> Vista got itself.
>>
>>

>
> I wonder if this has something to do with Crossfire. I recall a few other
> threads that dealt with ATI's Crossfire technology. Try searching the
> forum and see if you can find any insight in those threads.
>

> Thanks Travis and Mark but the system was working fine with just 384MB of
> Ram
> uptill I installed the X1600 today, the other 128MB I used as Onboard
> Video
> cache and it all worked perfectly, a little slow in places but media
> player
> played with no problems.
>
> These are the sample videos I`m talking of, I have little else on the
> system
> yet.
>
> If I remove the X1600 and revert to onboard video adapter it all works
> fine
> again.
>
> The X1600 was installed in a virgin state, no driver other than the one
> Vista got itself.
>
>

> Hi Colin, yes I`ve plenty of power. My Half Life 2 works fine on it but no
> media Player videos will play, which is kinda strange as media player is a
> built in MS app ! It has to be to do with the Ati drivers else why would
> it
> work with the onboard graphics ?
>
> I installed HL2 to test but other than that there`s not a lot else, Trend
> Anti-V is about all at present. I didn`t want to push it too early and I
> have
> other XP machines for everything else !
>
>