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to all the computer guru's out there:
Ok, my wife uses an older IBM thinkpad for work ( teacher ).. It's a pentium 3, but had xp on it when new.. was not a win 98 upgrade deal.
Has the ati radeon mobility / 16mb memory / 350mhz video processor.
2 days ago at a conference she was watching a dvd video in her hotel room and it worked fine.. then next day, there were lines in the video playback, and on startup you see some 'artifacts' during the 'post' time when the video bios info, and the ibm logo are up right at power on..and occasionally a screen full of '!!!' that goes away when the windows splash screen comes up.. Windows desktop looks fine... etc.
I checked video settings.. everything i could think of.. on a whim, I went into advanced properties / troubleshooting and started moving the hardware acceleration level back.. had to move it to the 3rd notch back which disabled directdraw and direct 3d stuff... Poof... video is fine after that... set it up a notch.. and bang.. video playback is bad.
To clarify.. this is only video playback from a dvd disk.. not other small avi or Quicktime movies .. etc..
fortunately for what she uses the cpu for.. I don't think disabling some of the acceleration on the video is going to have any tangible negative effect for her.. all she does is some word processing, watching an occasional video in it while on trips.. and doing email thru wifi connections when traveling, plus some audio playback via a midi adapter out into a general midi keyboard.
my guess is the internal video adapter is becoming flaky?
any other guess's?
thanks
soundguy
Ok, my wife uses an older IBM thinkpad for work ( teacher ).. It's a pentium 3, but had xp on it when new.. was not a win 98 upgrade deal.
Has the ati radeon mobility / 16mb memory / 350mhz video processor.
2 days ago at a conference she was watching a dvd video in her hotel room and it worked fine.. then next day, there were lines in the video playback, and on startup you see some 'artifacts' during the 'post' time when the video bios info, and the ibm logo are up right at power on..and occasionally a screen full of '!!!' that goes away when the windows splash screen comes up.. Windows desktop looks fine... etc.
I checked video settings.. everything i could think of.. on a whim, I went into advanced properties / troubleshooting and started moving the hardware acceleration level back.. had to move it to the 3rd notch back which disabled directdraw and direct 3d stuff... Poof... video is fine after that... set it up a notch.. and bang.. video playback is bad.
To clarify.. this is only video playback from a dvd disk.. not other small avi or Quicktime movies .. etc..
fortunately for what she uses the cpu for.. I don't think disabling some of the acceleration on the video is going to have any tangible negative effect for her.. all she does is some word processing, watching an occasional video in it while on trips.. and doing email thru wifi connections when traveling, plus some audio playback via a midi adapter out into a general midi keyboard.
my guess is the internal video adapter is becoming flaky?
any other guess's?
thanks
soundguy