First of all, here?s my rig since I know people will want this info before answering my questions.
ASUS A8N-E Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 Ultra ATX AMD
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ 1GHz FSB Socket 939
Kingston ValueRAM 2GB (2 x 1GB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM
eVGA 256-P2-N515-AX Geforce 7800GT 256MB
WD Caviar SE16 SATA 300MB/s 250GB
Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Sound Card
Antec LifeStyle SONATA II Piano Black Computer Case
Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005
Dell 2405 Monitor
I built the machine in early February, and added a second WD 320 GB hard drive last month.
I?m in EVGA?s step-up program and I actually just mailed out the old card this afternoon. Once my number was near the top, I decided to get a temporary video card to use while waiting for the new one to arrive and also to have as a backup in case my new 7900GT Superclocked doesn?t work. (I have heard of people having trouble with them.)
The temp card I picked out is a Sapphire Radeon 7000 PCI 64MG. You can find its full specs at this Newegg link:
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16814102447
The problem is that this card won?t play back videos. I?ll try and start one up and the sound will begin, but I?ll just get a black screen. This happens in Windows Media Player, Media Player Classic and VLC. Worse, when I try to exit one of these programs, it will turn off, but the sound will keep going and eventually the computer crashes and I have to reboot.
Now I know I shouldn?t be expecting much from a $32.00 video card, but this thing did get pretty good reviews. I?m not trying to play games with it, and it is supposed to support a maximum resolution of 2048x1536. At the moment, I only have it set at 1024x768.
I did update the card?s drivers, which were released less than a month ago, and are supposed to be for Windows MCE. I don?t know if it matters, but just before I installed the temp card, I also updated the A8N-E Bios to the latest version, 1011.
Does anyone have any ideas on a simple solution to this problem? I don?t want to try anything too technical, especially when there?s nothing else wrong with the computer. I understand the best answer may be to just wait for the new card. However, if there is not a simple solution to this, I?m probably going to send the temp card back because it clearly is not working properly.
Thanks in advance.
ASUS A8N-E Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 Ultra ATX AMD
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ 1GHz FSB Socket 939
Kingston ValueRAM 2GB (2 x 1GB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM
eVGA 256-P2-N515-AX Geforce 7800GT 256MB
WD Caviar SE16 SATA 300MB/s 250GB
Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Sound Card
Antec LifeStyle SONATA II Piano Black Computer Case
Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005
Dell 2405 Monitor
I built the machine in early February, and added a second WD 320 GB hard drive last month.
I?m in EVGA?s step-up program and I actually just mailed out the old card this afternoon. Once my number was near the top, I decided to get a temporary video card to use while waiting for the new one to arrive and also to have as a backup in case my new 7900GT Superclocked doesn?t work. (I have heard of people having trouble with them.)
The temp card I picked out is a Sapphire Radeon 7000 PCI 64MG. You can find its full specs at this Newegg link:
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16814102447
The problem is that this card won?t play back videos. I?ll try and start one up and the sound will begin, but I?ll just get a black screen. This happens in Windows Media Player, Media Player Classic and VLC. Worse, when I try to exit one of these programs, it will turn off, but the sound will keep going and eventually the computer crashes and I have to reboot.
Now I know I shouldn?t be expecting much from a $32.00 video card, but this thing did get pretty good reviews. I?m not trying to play games with it, and it is supposed to support a maximum resolution of 2048x1536. At the moment, I only have it set at 1024x768.
I did update the card?s drivers, which were released less than a month ago, and are supposed to be for Windows MCE. I don?t know if it matters, but just before I installed the temp card, I also updated the A8N-E Bios to the latest version, 1011.
Does anyone have any ideas on a simple solution to this problem? I don?t want to try anything too technical, especially when there?s nothing else wrong with the computer. I understand the best answer may be to just wait for the new card. However, if there is not a simple solution to this, I?m probably going to send the temp card back because it clearly is not working properly.
Thanks in advance.