Skoots

I've had the same problem with the blank screen in Media center after
installing the update drivers from Nvidia. I reverted back to the old
drivers and everything worked fine again.


"JW" <nospam@no.spam> wrote in message
news:%23rQIYmK6GHA.4604@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> It may be that Vista is not recognizing that you have more then 32MB on
> your 5200 card available. Does the additional memory show up in the
> system BIOS as allocated?
>
> "Praveen" <Praveen@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:00974180-426B-4F30-B297-420DB46574FE@microsoft.com...
>> JW I have 30MB on the card, and 127 mb of shared mem. CPU is X86.
>> yeah i used 96.33 drivers. I actually had to change the inf file to
>> install
>> them. but they were of no use. excact same behaviour with them too.
>>
>> This is the first time that i installed vista on that laptop.
>>
>> "JW" wrote:
>>
>>> How much memory onboard your 5200 card?
>>> By the latest drivers I assume you mean th 96.33 drivers for you CPU X86
>>> or
>>> 64 bit.
>>> Did you have a previous of Vista working on your laptop?
>>>
>>> "Praveen" <Praveen@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>>> news:904F049B-4151-415F-923B-E106C5980C61@microsoft.com...
>>> >I have installed Vista Build 5728 on my Inspiron 8600 laptop. It has a
>>> >nvidia
>>> > geforce go5200 display card.
>>> >
>>> > The problems i have are:
>>> > 1) Vista hangs whenever a screen saver other than the default one
>>> > runs. It
>>> > just hangs. I am using the screen savers that come with vista.
>>> >
>>> > 2) If i run media center It just goes blank.
>>> >
>>> > I have tried installing latest drivers from nvidia but it doen't help.
>>> > Its
>>> > the same.
>>> > Any help is appreciated.
>>> > Thanks
>>>
>>>
>>>
>
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