Re: playing a DVD

From: Cari \(MS-MVP\) (Newsgroups1_at_coribright.com)
Date: 07/10/04 

Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 10:33:20 -0700

Go to the website of the notebook manufacturer, download and install updated
graphics card drivers. 

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Cari
MS-MVP Windows Technologies - Printing/Imaging/Hardware
www.coribright.com
"DP Hunt" <DP Hunt@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:FE3140F4-1D02-436D-B9FE-7D8DC531193A@microsoft.com...
>I am trying to play a DVD on WinDVD2000 and I receive a message that says 
>"creat Overlay Failed.  Please lower your screen resolution or color depth 
>and retry."  I have lowered it to 600x800 and 16 bit and have rebooted a 
>couple of times to no avail.  Under Display Properties, I have gone into 
>the settings tab and selected the advanced button - and gone to the monitor 
>tab and the properties button is greyed out - as my PC is a laptop and 
>there is only one monitor (the default).
>
> Does anyone know how to get this DVD player to work?
>
> DP
>