Vista - Video card problem

I have a Dell XPS laptop and the video setting keep going back to vista basic
theme, I don't know why, I looked at the problem and solutions and there is
nothing and then I looked in the event logs and nothing, I will have the
dreamscene on and and the whole screen will go black (the background),
another friend has the same problem on his laptop.

Russ,

Dell makes the XPS laptop in various configuration levels. Depending on
which one you have, it may not be Vista Areo compatible. You can query the
Dell website to determine whether your version supports Areo. If it does,
then post back for possible troubleshooting tips.
--
freddy


"Russ Allen" wrote:

> I have a Dell XPS laptop and the video setting keep going back to vista basic
> theme, I don't know why, I looked at the problem and solutions and there is
> nothing and then I looked in the event logs and nothing, I will have the
> dreamscene on and and the whole screen will go black (the background),
> another friend has the same problem on his laptop.

I run 2 pieces of software that does this, except the display driver
recovers (you might want to check your video driver). Trillian, which is
fixable, and DivX, which has no fix yet. You might be running something that
does not support Aero and the video is not recovering.
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"Russ Allen" <RussAllen@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have a Dell XPS laptop and the video setting keep going back to vista
>basic
> theme, I don't know why, I looked at the problem and solutions and there
> is
> nothing and then I looked in the event logs and nothing, I will have the
> dreamscene on and and the whole screen will go black (the background),
> another friend has the same problem on his laptop.

Thanks for the help, I had checked several times for an updated driver but
there was none, but yesterday there was and it worked fine, I think it was
just a crappy driver that was just thrown out for vista. hanks for your help.