Black screen terror!

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Lord Olav Rekve III

Hey i have a Gigabyte 8iPE-1000MK mobo with a P4 2.4 HT with 512 ram and a
radeon 9700 pro card.

I just recently got a major problem on my pc.. When i try to play MMORP
games or DVD movies which are stored on my HD it wont show anything but a
black screen. When ui press alt+Tab it shows for a second and then botos out
in wondows.. reallty annoying.. have only happened the last two weeks but im
totally clueless what i can do to fix this problem..
I have reinstalled Direct X and WMI but in vain.. please help!!!
I have SP2 on but i cant rmember when it came on the pc so i dont know for
sure if it was after it was installed the problems started.
Would be nice if anyone could help!
Olav
 
Lord Olav Rekve III said:
Hey i have a Gigabyte 8iPE-1000MK mobo with a P4 2.4 HT with 512 ram and a
radeon 9700 pro card.

I just recently got a major problem on my pc.. When i try to play MMORP
games or DVD movies which are stored on my HD it wont show anything but a
black screen. When ui press alt+Tab it shows for a second and then botos
out
in wondows.. reallty annoying.. have only happened the last two weeks but
im
totally clueless what i can do to fix this problem..
I have reinstalled Direct X and WMI but in vain.. please help!!!
I have SP2 on but i cant rmember when it came on the pc so i dont know for
sure if it was after it was installed the problems started.
Would be nice if anyone could help!
Olav
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I would say the PSU is on it's way out, these graphics cards that have the
extra 12v connector really strain a psu of 400w and under.
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Start your game and after the black screen comes up hit the info button on
your monitor. It should show you a resolution and refresh rate. Sounds like
you have yours set to high.

My monitor currently says 1280x1024 H:91.8Khz V:85.5hz
 
Hiya chris
Just wondered somthing...
Do u happen to know what can be wrong with this??
I have a notebook which had Win XP home.. but i screwed up the system so now
im trying to put in Win XP Media Center 2005 but it wont let me.. the disk
is in and it boots trhu the setup part but when its supposed to ask if i
want to format the drive or whatever it just pops out in dos and everything
is screwed up
Please help
 
Lord said:
Hiya chris
Just wondered somthing...
Do u happen to know what can be wrong with this??
I have a notebook which had Win XP home.. but i screwed up the system
so now im trying to put in Win XP Media Center 2005 but it wont let
me.. the disk is in and it boots trhu the setup part but when its
supposed to ask if i want to format the drive or whatever it just
pops out in dos and everything is screwed up
Please help
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The Media Centre Edition is OEM only, and is designed for distribution with,
and installation on, a MCE capable system. Where did you obtain it? It
wouldn't have been though the normal channels (and, if it came with a MCE
capable system, you are in violation of the EULA by attempting to install it
on any other system).
 
Miss Perspicacia Tick said:
The Media Centre Edition is OEM only, and is designed for distribution
with, and installation on, a MCE capable system. Where did you obtain it?
It wouldn't have been though the normal channels (and, if it came with a
MCE capable system, you are in violation of the EULA by attempting to
install it on any other system).
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Actually it came with my brand new custom build PC from alienware but fyi it
has a Multicomputer clause so i can in fact install on 1-3 computers
 
The Media Centre Edition is OEM only, and is designed for distribution with,
and installation on, a MCE capable system. Where did you obtain it? It
wouldn't have been though the normal channels (and, if it came with a MCE
capable system, you are in violation of the EULA by attempting to install it
on any other system).
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No, it is sold though normal channels now with *hardware*.
It is not a violation of EULA to install on a single system.
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=32-102-311&depa=0
 
Lord Olav Rekve III's log on stardate 01 stu 2004
Hey i have a Gigabyte 8iPE-1000MK mobo with a P4 2.4 HT with 512 ram
and a radeon 9700 pro card.
/snip

Would be nice if anyone could help!
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I'd say, Radeon. 9700 was a buggy chip, and i wouldn't be surprised that
it makes problems. Recently, i worked on the similar machine (only i had
G500), and tested with it a whole bunch of hardware, and it haven't failed
me any time.

Try changing R9700 with some other card, or try with new drivers, perhaps.
 
PROBLEM SOLVED... WAS ATI DRIVER 4.9 which dint work very well with my
radeoncard.. when i updated to 4.10(had to undelete 4.9 first..lame) but
then everything worked like smoooooth :)
 
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