Garbled video during DVD playback in Vista Media Center

Hi,

I've just installed Vista Home Premium SP1 and the DVD playback picture is
all garbled in Media Center - lots of mainly green, pink and purple blocks
with an occasional flicker of a proper image. The audio is fine and playback
with PowerDVD is fine too (dont want to use this as I cant get 5.1ch sound
without buying it), I have uninstalled PowerDVD but to no avail. I get the
same problem with Media Player 11.

Basic spec of the pc is as follows:
Processor: AMD Athlon 2.4 GHz
RAM: 1GB
Video: ATI 2100
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 250GB SATA II

Can anyone give me some ideas as to what is going wrong? I've got all the
latest hardware drivers installed

Thank you

Mark

Mark wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've just installed Vista Home Premium SP1 and the DVD playback
> picture is all garbled in Media Center - lots of mainly green, pink
> and purple blocks with an occasional flicker of a proper image. The
> audio is fine and playback with PowerDVD is fine too (dont want to
> use this as I cant get 5.1ch sound without buying it), I have
> uninstalled PowerDVD but to no avail. I get the same problem with
> Media Player 11.
>
> Basic spec of the pc is as follows:
> Processor: AMD Athlon 2.4 GHz
> RAM: 1GB
> Video: ATI 2100
> HDD: Seagate Barracuda 250GB SATA II
>
> Can anyone give me some ideas as to what is going wrong? I've got all
> the latest hardware drivers installed
>
> Thank you
>
> Mark
================================
It's possible that SP1 installed an incorrect
video driver. Did you try updating your video
driver from the manufacturer's support site?

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John Inzer
Digital Media MVP

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Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

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Hi John,

Thank you for your suggestion, the video driver installed is from the driver
disk that came with the motherboard, I have checked the ATI website for
updated drivers but my adapter isnt even listed. I suppose I could uninstall
it and try the generic Windows driver and see how that works.
The problem I have is that this all worked with a trial installation of
Vista Home Premium (not SP1), but now I have bought my own copy things seem
to be going wrong!
I'll try the driver idea and let you know what happens.

Mark

I believe this is the driver you need for the 2100 chip on your MOBO.

http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_ca...grated-vista32


"Mark" <Mark@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
newsC10B98A-129E-4522-BECE-F47FB5227BF9@microsoft.com...
> Hi John,
>
> Thank you for your suggestion, the video driver installed is from the
> driver
> disk that came with the motherboard, I have checked the ATI website for
> updated drivers but my adapter isnt even listed. I suppose I could
> uninstall
> it and try the generic Windows driver and see how that works.
> The problem I have is that this all worked with a trial installation of
> Vista Home Premium (not SP1), but now I have bought my own copy things
> seem
> to be going wrong!
> I'll try the driver idea and let you know what happens.
>
> Mark

Thank you I'll give that a go.

"JW" wrote:

> I believe this is the driver you need for the 2100 chip on your MOBO.
>
> http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_ca...grated-vista32
>
>
> "Mark" <Mark@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> newsC10B98A-129E-4522-BECE-F47FB5227BF9@microsoft.com...
> > Hi John,
> >
> > Thank you for your suggestion, the video driver installed is from the
> > driver
> > disk that came with the motherboard, I have checked the ATI website for
> > updated drivers but my adapter isnt even listed. I suppose I could
> > uninstall
> > it and try the generic Windows driver and see how that works.
> > The problem I have is that this all worked with a trial installation of
> > Vista Home Premium (not SP1), but now I have bought my own copy things
> > seem
> > to be going wrong!
> > I'll try the driver idea and let you know what happens.
> >
> > Mark
>