Re: Media Center freezes with new GeForce 6200

Sorry, I forgot to mention that I've had my Intel chipset disabled in the
device manager for some time now - hasn't helped.

I've got a "GeForce 6200 Over Clocked". Not sure if that's the same model as
the TC you mentioned. Mine has 256MB DDR memory. Unfortunately, my HP doesn't
have and PCI-E or AGP slots, so my card is only a plane-jane PCI.

I found an interesting happening: when I press the power button on my tower
to display the Reset, Log Off, and Turn Off options, I can hear the video or
tv in the background playing just fine. Does that make any sense? I've had
something similar happen with my Intel chipset, where the full screen
visualizations in Media Center would only display smoothly if text or the
cursor was displaying over-top them. Could this be connected somehow? With my
new graphics card the visualizations display slowly in Media Center all the
time, no matter what is or isn't on the screen. Visualizations in WMP 10,
full screen or otherwise, have always been fine.

"JW" wrote:

Your BIOSD setting should be fine since you have changed the primary souce
to PCI... Does the Intel chip/card show as disabled in Device Manager? If
not then disable it there.
Do you have the standard 6200 graphics card of the 6200 TC graphics card?
How much memory is on your graphics card?

"FrozenMan" <FrozenMan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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My monitor runs at 1280x1024 @ 60Hz. That is what I have my graphics card
set
at. Is that what you meant by setting it at the 'native resolution'?
I downloaded the 91.47 drivers you mentioned, and there is no change. With
the newer drivers, any video I play or tv I try to watch brings my
computer
to a snail's pace. The mouse barely moves and the task manager window
refreshes once every 30 seconds. With the 89.31 drivers that came on the
installation CD with my card, these types of things still happened, but
after
several mintues of perfect playback.
I tried to disable my onboard Intel chip in the BIOS but couldn't find
how.
Seeing as how I know very little about settings in the BIOS, I wasn't too
surprised. The only setting I saw that was close was changing the primary
graphics port to PCI (where my GeForce 6200 is) or Onboard (where the
Intel
chipset is). It was set to PCI and I left it there.

Thank you very much for your help and ideas. Any other ideas or
suggestions?

"JW" wrote:

I am not a gamer so I did not consider that usage in my previous post.
Are you outputting the native resolution of you LCD monitor over the VGA
connection?
NVIDIA released new 91.47 drivers yesterday(9/1) are these the ones you
are
using?
Is the Intel chip disabled in your BIOS?


"FrozenMan" <FrozenMan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I'm using an HP vs19 flat pannel monitor via VGA. I upgraded video
cards
for
gaming, and at the moment I'm glad I did.

"JW" wrote:

I consider the Intel 82945 chip on your MOBO to be more powerfull
then a
NVIDIA 6200 card. I use one with 128MB of memory allocated on my
Vista
system running Media Center with the NVIDIA PureVideo Decoder and have
had
no problems with TV or DVDs.
What output resolution are you using to what type of Display over
what
interface?


"FrozenMan" <FrozenMan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I recently installed a Geforce 6200-OC graphics card into my HP
m7067c,
replacing my Intel 82915G/GV/910GL Express onboard chip. After it's
install,
I noticed that both live and recorded tv locked up my computer after
a
few
minutes. After I installed the latest drivers from the NVIDIA
website,
it
only got worse. Media Center would lock up before any picture was
shown,
and
the same thing happened when I tried playing the DVR-MS files
through
Media
Player 10 or when I tried watching a DVD on InterVideo WinDVD
Player. I
bought the NVIDIA PureVideo MPEG Decoder (and have it set as default
through
the decoder utility) with no change. When I ran the Media Center
Diagnostic
Tool, my computer had no fails or warnings.

Is there a setting that I'm missing with my new card? Do I have to
live
with
the older drivers (and therefore older controls and settings) to
watch
videos
on my computer? Could it be the card itself? Although I wasn't able
to
find a
list of MCE-compatable graphics cards, others are using lower
Geforce
cards
with no performance issues. Several other threads have had
discussions
on
this problem (although with slightly different circumstances) and
none
of
the
solutions provided seemed to work except for using an older driver.









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