[geeks] Flash Player Video/XP/AMD glitch

[Mark Benson]

On 26 Dec 2009, at 15:02, Lionel Peterson wrote:

> On Dec 26, 2009, at 4:43 AM, Mark Benson <md.benson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> As you can imagine, with money laid down and a system built we are kinda
>> bummed it doesn't work.
>
> Was there a question?
>
> What O/S?

Sorry. XP Home SP3.

> Does MB MFG supply appropriate drivers for desired O/S?

Yes. Installed as instructed.

> Have you updated all drivers?

We;ve tried zOTAC's latest driver package for the board and also NVIDIA's
latest Windows XP Drivers.

> Have you been able to use computer for extended periods running any
programs?

Everything bar Flash Video seems to work just fine. We left it playing a Harry
Potter DVD for well over an hour, no issues.

> Connected to DVI/VGA monitor make a difference?

Does it when attached to HDMI (via DVI port) or VGA.

> I would suspect bad software before hardware, but only because I've had such
good luck with H/W that I (falsely) assume all H/W is good.

The fact the board is new lead me to believe it's not faulty. The fact also
the problem only manifests itself in Falsh Player currently as far as we have
investigated also leads me to software.

I just wondered if anyone else ran over this issue and if they can shed any
light on possible causes. I guess you just tried to do just that but to be
honest Dad and I have been building PCs since the 386 days and we've tired all
the obvious, there's on overheating no regular symptoms etc. Only thing I can
think of is maybe if I encourage him to let me put a high-end game demo on the
machine and test the 3D fully, it seems to use the NVIDIA gfx chip for all
video work. Playing Flash video yields a less-than-5% CPU load even from BBC
iPlayer. DVDs also take next to no CPU time.

It's annoying me but I can't get over the fact we have 2 Windows 7 boxes in
the house that both work flawlessly on the same tasks. I wonder if it's XP +
new hardware being stoopid, and if we wouldn't be better off trying Win 7 Home
Premium.


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