Re: dumbest of all questions!

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From: Nigel Barker (nigel_at_hp.com)
Date: 01/10/05 

Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 14:56:10 GMT

On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 15:47:12 -0000, "gd" <grahamdurkin@msn.com> wrote:

>Ok - bare with me please........I built lots of computers over time, from
>scratch and most of the time know what I'm doing - I've recently built my
>own dual tuner MCE 2005 system and it works pretty much 90% perfectly and
>the spec:-
>
>
>The sytem isn't bleeding edge, but is built around the following:
>
>AMD 64 3000+ with 1Mb Crucial RAM PC3200, SATA 160Gb disk and PNY Nvidea
>video card FX5700 with 128Mb memory - all of this sits on an ASUS K8V SE
>Delux motherboard. I have two PCI tuner cards - Black Gold DVB Digital
>
>My problem is that on S-Video I get a small amount of swirling on the TV
>picture (set up as PAL or NTSC - doesn't change)
>
>So, I went out and got a new VGA card - Abit Radeon 9550 Guru - installed it
>and Media centre reports that the card nor drivers are supported. I then
>downlaoded the latest ones from ATi, and still the same.
>
>How do I get Media Center to recognise the drivers - it should be just the
>same as swapping a video card and installing the drivers, then
>re-boot!...............it should just work.........or should I start all
>over from scratch and re-install?
>
>Any ideas anyone please?

Put the Nvidia card back in. It's a better one than the 9550. There is not much
that you can do about poor S-video picture quality. You could upgrade your TV to
one that accepts DVI or VGA. The cheapest alternative is a modded PAL Xbox
running a copy of the US Media Center Extender application feeding the TV via
RGB. 

--
Nigel Barker
Live from the sunny Cote d'Azur

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