I have recently had a motherboard crash and had to replace the
motherboard, and also replaced the hard drive, as well as the video
card. However, when i replaced the video card, (I had previously had a
256MB) I replaced it with a 128MB to save money, don't ask me why i was
so stupid... it's a long story... Now whenever I try to watch video on
Windows Media Player, or DivX, i get really pathetic playback, the
actual video runs fine, there are no issues with sound, the video is
just very bright and makes the videos not worth watching, i know it
isn't the files themselves, as when i copy them over to a friends
computer, they play fine. I don't really think that 128MB is really
that bad, as it seems to play the video fine, it's just all the colours
that are wrong...could it be settings? and if so which ones do i change?
can anyone help me please!!


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Scrappy

When changing motherboards and video cards, you need:

1) Install/re-install the latest available chipset drivers. This is to get
the correct drivers for most the the motherboard devices (IDE, IRQs, USB) and
especially the AGP slot drivers (or PCI Express???).

2) Locate, download and install the latest video card drivers, from the
manufacturer's web site. The drivers are updates at regular intervals since
there are possible "known" issues with the "play-backs."



On 02/12/2005 Scrappy <Scrappy.1zfb1s@pcbanter.net> wrote:
>
>I have recently had a motherboard crash and had to replace the
>motherboard, and also replaced the hard drive, as well as the video
>card. However, when i replaced the video card, (I had previously had a
>256MB) I replaced it with a 128MB to save money, don't ask me why i was
>so stupid... it's a long story... Now whenever I try to watch video on
>Windows Media Player, or DivX, i get really pathetic playback, the
>actual video runs fine, there are no issues with sound, the video is
>just very bright and makes the videos not worth watching, i know it
>isn't the files themselves, as when i copy them over to a friends
>computer, they play fine. I don't really think that 128MB is really
>that bad, as it seems to play the video fine, it's just all the colours
>that are wrong...could it be settings? and if so which ones do i change?
>can anyone help me please!!
>
>

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Y.

If you want a quick solution just change the display settings in the
player to lower the brightness and fix the colors, windows media player
has a really easy one to use its an equilizer.