Weird video problem I can't figure out.

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I've got a problem with playing videos that's driving me mad.

I've just upgraded my PC with a new motherboard and CPU. I backed up everything and reinstalled Windows XP and everything's hunky dorey. Except for playing video. Certain types of video files cause whatever media I use to crash.

When I play Quicktime movies or DivX movies for example, everything's fine, but when I tried WMV videos or some MPGs, it just causes the video player software to hang and I have to force it to quit via the task manager.

Here's my story:
I put in the new CPU, mobo and RAM, installed Windows from scratch and formatted the C: partition and then copied over my backed up files. When I tried to play some of my videos, I first noticed the problem. I asked this an another forum and someone suggested that it might be a video card problem, but the video card is working fine in another PC and when I swapped it with my old video card, it caused a different problem with the old video card. Instead of videos refusing to play and crashing the software, the videos are all weird looking with washed out colours and parts of them look in negative. The new video card is an nVidia 6600GT and the old one is an nVidia FX5600.

I've tried the following:
Reinstalling Windows XP.
Installing the latest nVidia drivers.
Updating Windows Media Player to version 10.
Trying alternative media player software.
Downloading a set of new video codecs.
Getting the latest version of DirectX.

But nothing seems to work. Anyone got any suggestions?


KM.
 
Had a look around, but all answers found that vaguely related are associated with drivers suchg as the ones you listed. So long as you make sure these are done, apparently, you should be ok.

Installing the latest nVidia drivers.
Updating Windows Media Player to version 10.
Trying alternative media player software.
Downloading a set of new video codecs.
Getting the latest version of DirectX.
 
Is the new video card an AGP or PCI-E?

It may not be completely compatible with the hardware you just installed.
 
VTGT07
Is the new video card an AGP or PCI-E?

It may not be completely compatible with the hardware you just installed.
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It's an AGP graphics card. I thought it might have been a hardware problem, but why would 2 different nVidia AGP graphics cards not work with a motherboard or CPU and give such strange effects like weird colours (also, on the FX5600, some of the vids looked like they were dithered in 16 colours for some reason)? Why can I play games like Half Life 2 and Far Cry perfectly fine, but things only get weird when trying to play video files encoded with certain video codecs? Aargh, I just don't get it!

edit: Just to make things clear, both the graphics card and motherboard are AGP 8x compatible.


Duck!
 
Anyway, I figured it out. I had to downgrade my video drivers by a few versions - there's a known bug with FX cards and 6600 cards with the new drivers and certain motherboards.


Duck!
 

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