Artefacts and other fun (1 Viewer)

[Champs]

MediaPortal Version: 0.2.3.0
MediaPortal Skin: Default
Windows Version: XP Pro Performance Edition Feb 2008
CPU Type: P3 863MHz
HDD: 8GB Quantum Fireball
Memory: 256 Meg
Motherboard: HP Vectra
Motherboard Chipset:
Motherboard Bios: Updated
Video Card: GeForce FX 5200
Video Card Driver: Updated
Sound Card: Onboard
[Remote: Microsoft

Ok.. I have a server in my Garage with 1.5 TB of movies, tv etc..

I recently decided that the girls need access to this in their rooms. I had two old HP Vectras. I bought them both a GeForce FX 5200 and fired them up. When I first used Windows MCE, the desktop worked fine, but when I opened Media Center, all I got was a box of artefacts.

Figured the machine was not going to cope with MCE, and having played with Media Portal a long time ago, I installed XP Pro Performance and installed Media Portal. Media Portal starts fine however the text on the screen is scrambled. When I guess what each one says and start a movie, the movie plays in flickering shades of pink and green.

I thought that the boxes were to old, but I can play the movies off the network using VLC and Media Player and they display perfect, so the issue is somewhere in Media portal. It is also important to note that all I want them to do is playback, no recording or anything more than play a movie, music and pictures.

Can someone , a lot smarter than me, please help with the configuration of this thing before I toss them in the tip.

Cheers

Champs

 

[Paranoid Delusion]

Try going back to a much older driver either 8xxx or 9xxx serious, there is definately a driver issue you have there.

 

[Champs]

Cheers Ray

No luck so far but as type of progress report....

Driver Frontend text Frontend Graphics Movie

169.21 Only large font Drop down has glitches Green + Pink
81.98 All but the menu items Black glitches everywhere Green + Pink
76.10 All text visible Black glitches everywhere Green + Pink
67.20 All but the menu items Black glitches everywhere Green + Pink

There is a further list of drivers that I have tried, but did not try different resolutions and refreshes etc, so I will go back and test them again.

 

[Paranoid Delusion]

Hi another suggestion i remember was dropping the agp speed down in the bios, pink green really is a common problem with older machines graphics.

 

[Champs]

I read that elsewhere in here, but couldn't find anything in the Bios to let me do that.

I even updated the Bios to see if I could get that functionality, but still nothing.

I'll go back and look again... Cheers