Weird Win2KPro issue...

[quakefiend420]

last night i was using windows media player to play some music, as soon as i full screened the visualization my second monitor started acting weird...the wall paper tiled itself, the close and minimize buttons on the windows over there went black, and the video feed i had coming in kept having black boxes pop up...when i would return wmp to windowed mode everything would go back to normal...except my icons now look like they're stuck in 256 color mode...they look like complete crap...the shadowing is gone, etc...everything else appears to be in 32-bit color...wtf is going on here?

EDIT: well, it fixed itself...i rebooted a few minutes ago and it's back to normal again 😕

 

[birdpup]

Check if your video card has newer drivers than you have installed now.

 

[talyn00]

try switching to 256 color then back again to see if it fixes it?

 

[quakefiend420]

Originally posted by: birdpup
Check if your video card has newer drivers than you have installed now.

i considered that, but the last time i updated my video drivers i lost all my powerstrip settings...took about 2 hours to get everything set up again :roll:

Originally posted by: talyn00
try switching to 256 color then back again to see if it fixes it?

tried that...it's only the icons that are like that, games and apps are fine 😕

i really need to reformat and start fresh, i've been on this windows install for about 9 months...i'm a slacker 😉

 

[quakefiend420]

anyone else have any ideas?

 

[quakefiend420]

bumpity

 

[imported_BikeDude]

Well, is it stuck like that, or will it go away on the next reboot? (I assume it goes away)

Have you been able to do the same operation before without ill effects? Is it reproducible?

Did you have many apps running? Windows has some static buffers that can easily be exhausted. E.g. running 30-35 instances of IE pointing to the Anandtech page probably won't work (unless you've increased the desktop heap size or run the x64 version of Windows where the default size is set significantly higher).

Blaming the video driver is always a good bet.

 

[quakefiend420]

Originally posted by: BikeDude
Well, is it stuck like that, or will it go away on the next reboot? (I assume it goes away)

Have you been able to do the same operation before without ill effects? Is it reproducible?

Did you have many apps running? Windows has some static buffers that can easily be exhausted. E.g. running 30-35 instances of IE pointing to the Anandtech page probably won't work (unless you've increased the desktop heap size or run the x64 version of Windows where the default size is set significantly higher).

Blaming the video driver is always a good bet.

it's stuck like that...no amount of rebooting will make it away

and i've ran wmp like that many times without it tripping out on me...this is the first time it's done this...and since it's stuck this way, i can't really reproduce the same circumstance 🙁

i still had 6-700 megs of ram free when it tripped out, so i don't think that was the problem.

i guess i'm gonna reinstall my video drivers...2 hours of video tweaking, here i come :|

 

[spyordie007]

i guess i'm gonna reinstall my video drivers...2 hours of video tweaking, here i come

At this point it's still the next best step to address your current issue.

Also I havent seen it mentioned yet and since I know know what kind of video card you have I'd suggest updating your BIOS (if possible).

Good Luck

 

[quakefiend420]

Originally posted by: spyordie007

i guess i'm gonna reinstall my video drivers...2 hours of video tweaking, here i come

At this point it's still the next best step to address your current issue.

Also I havent seen it mentioned yet and since I know know what kind of video card you have I'd suggest updating your BIOS (if possible).

Good Luck

i've never updated a video card bios...it's a 5900xt

where do i get the flash?

EDIT: how did you know what video card i have? 😛