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August 28th 06, 01:42 PM
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Video Card Help
Can anyone offer some been there - done that experience with video cards &
Vista. My old 128 Meg ATI Sapphire worked fine for all videos, but would not allow me to burn DVDs on Vista. I upgraded to a 256 meg Nvidia 6200LE from Tiger Direct in the hopes that it would solve the problem... instead it made things worse. Now it will not play WMV files clearly. I am now faced with trying to find a replacement card for under $100. Can anyone offer any suggestions from this page that will work? http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/category/category_slc.asp?Recs=10&Nav=|c:318|c:933|&Sort=4 
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August 28th 06, 02:10 PM
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Video Card Help
Well I'm not sure as to what sort of system you are running but to me it
sounds like a driver problem. I have a similar video card, and had some issues like the ones you have described, I downloaded the vista beta drivers from the nvidia website and everything has been running smoothly ever since just remember when installing the video drivers to install them in administrator mode I'm running the following specs asus p4p800s-x mobo p4 3.0 ghz 800mhz fsb prescott core cpu 1 gb of geil ram 2x 512 mb nvidia n6200 agp video card "HagarTheHorrible" wrote in message ... Can anyone offer some been there - done that experience with video cards & Vista. My old 128 Meg ATI Sapphire worked fine for all videos, but would not allow me to burn DVDs on Vista. I upgraded to a 256 meg Nvidia 6200LE from Tiger Direct in the hopes that it would solve the problem... instead it made things worse. Now it will not play WMV files clearly. I am now faced with trying to find a replacement card for under $100. Can anyone offer any suggestions from this page that will work? http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/category/category_slc.asp?Recs=10&Nav=|c:318|c:933|&Sort=4
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August 28th 06, 03:59 PM
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Video Card Help
Thanks Will.
I am running an Athlon 2500XP with 1 Gig of Ram. Some WMV files will work fine with the card, but most will not. Especially the sample WMV files that came with Vista "Will Schuitman" wrote: Well I'm not sure as to what sort of system you are running but to me it sounds like a driver problem. I have a similar video card, and had some issues like the ones you have described, I downloaded the vista beta drivers from the nvidia website and everything has been running smoothly ever since just remember when installing the video drivers to install them in administrator mode I'm running the following specs asus p4p800s-x mobo p4 3.0 ghz 800mhz fsb prescott core cpu 1 gb of geil ram 2x 512 mb nvidia n6200 agp video card "HagarTheHorrible" wrote in message ... Can anyone offer some been there - done that experience with video cards & Vista. My old 128 Meg ATI Sapphire worked fine for all videos, but would not allow me to burn DVDs on Vista. I upgraded to a 256 meg Nvidia 6200LE from Tiger Direct in the hopes that it would solve the problem... instead it made things worse. Now it will not play WMV files clearly. I am now faced with trying to find a replacement card for under $100. Can anyone offer any suggestions from this page that will work? http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/category/category_slc.asp?Recs=10&Nav=|c:318|c:933|&Sort=4
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August 28th 06, 07:00 PM
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Video Card Help
I am the "changing video cards" MASTER. I own the concept...lol
It DOES sound like a driver problem. You ARE using the Vista beta driver from the nVidia site, and not any of the drivers from the cd that comes with the video card, right? If not, that's your problem. If so, good. Vista is very picky about things. Especially video cards. I have video cards from several vendors. Some of them, even though they have the same chipset as another that DOES work, won't work properly. I do know that my eVGA cards (Both the 6200 and 7600) work okay, though there is considerable "tracing" on the display. I haven't taken the time to see if that's the card or the monitor or the driver yet...was going to do that after my friend's funeral... "HagarTheHorrible" wrote in message ... Can anyone offer some been there - done that experience with video cards & Vista. My old 128 Meg ATI Sapphire worked fine for all videos, but would not allow me to burn DVDs on Vista. I upgraded to a 256 meg Nvidia 6200LE from Tiger Direct in the hopes that it would solve the problem... instead it made things worse. Now it will not play WMV files clearly. I am now faced with trying to find a replacement card for under $100. Can anyone offer any suggestions from this page that will work? http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/category/category_slc.asp?Recs=10&Nav=|c:318|c:933|&Sort=4
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August 28th 06, 07:53 PM
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Thanks for the info.
I was using first using the Vista drivers, then the NVidia drivers. Neither would allow me to play certain WMV files in any watachable form. "Raven Mill" wrote: I am the "changing video cards" MASTER. I own the concept...lol It DOES sound like a driver problem. You ARE using the Vista beta driver from the nVidia site, and not any of the drivers from the cd that comes with the video card, right? If not, that's your problem. If so, good. Vista is very picky about things. Especially video cards. I have video cards from several vendors. Some of them, even though they have the same chipset as another that DOES work, won't work properly. I do know that my eVGA cards (Both the 6200 and 7600) work okay, though there is considerable "tracing" on the display. I haven't taken the time to see if that's the card or the monitor or the driver yet...was going to do that after my friend's funeral... "HagarTheHorrible" wrote in message ... Can anyone offer some been there - done that experience with video cards & Vista. My old 128 Meg ATI Sapphire worked fine for all videos, but would not allow me to burn DVDs on Vista. I upgraded to a 256 meg Nvidia 6200LE from Tiger Direct in the hopes that it would solve the problem... instead it made things worse. Now it will not play WMV files clearly. I am now faced with trying to find a replacement card for under $100. Can anyone offer any suggestions from this page that will work? http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/category/category_slc.asp?Recs=10&Nav=|c:318|c:933|&Sort=4
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August 28th 06, 10:43 PM
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I'm haven't been able to play the sample WMV video files at all, not sure
why they don't work but everything else does work for me, so I haven't bothered with them seeing evrything else works . "HagarTheHorrible" wrote in message ... Thanks for the info. I was using first using the Vista drivers, then the NVidia drivers. Neither would allow me to play certain WMV files in any watachable form. "Raven Mill" wrote: I am the "changing video cards" MASTER. I own the concept...lol It DOES sound like a driver problem. You ARE using the Vista beta driver from the nVidia site, and not any of the drivers from the cd that comes with the video card, right? If not, that's your problem. If so, good. Vista is very picky about things. Especially video cards. I have video cards from several vendors. Some of them, even though they have the same chipset as another that DOES work, won't work properly. I do know that my eVGA cards (Both the 6200 and 7600) work okay, though there is considerable "tracing" on the display. I haven't taken the time to see if that's the card or the monitor or the driver yet...was going to do that after my friend's funeral... "HagarTheHorrible" wrote in message ... Can anyone offer some been there - done that experience with video cards & Vista. My old 128 Meg ATI Sapphire worked fine for all videos, but would not allow me to burn DVDs on Vista. I upgraded to a 256 meg Nvidia 6200LE from Tiger Direct in the hopes that it would solve the problem... instead it made things worse. Now it will not play WMV files clearly. I am now faced with trying to find a replacement card for under $100. Can anyone offer any suggestions from this page that will work? http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/category/category_slc.asp?Recs=10&Nav=|c:318|c:933|&Sort=4
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