Hello, I'm relatively new here, but I have found quite a bit of useful information. I recently developed a problem with my computer. One day my computer operated as it should and displayed videos from the net and off of DVDs. Then the next day it all quit. I first attributed the problem to perhaps the website I was trying to view videos from, and then when I tried to view my own DVDs and received no video (audio comes in perfectly) I knew I had a problem. I came on here, looked through various threads, and attempted to solve my problem. I thought the problem may have been with my installed codecs. I used the thread here to uninstall them, and then proceded to use a guide, also located on here, to install those such codecs. Did not work. Any information would be helpful. I used DirectDVD to view DVD content, but PowerDVD and Interactual also failed. (I tried DVDShrink just to see if it could display the video, and it can in the analysis window, but not when you try to preview the video.) Also, Quicktime is still functional. My computer stats are Dell Dimension 8250, 2.4 Ghz P4, 512 MB RDRAM, 16x DVD Reader, NEC-2500A DVD Burner, 60GB and 160GB HD, BFG GeForce 6800, yadda yadda. Please, if you can, help me to solve this problem so that I don't have to do a system redo. Thanks
you may have to do a non-destructive recovery. it would be a good idea to back your hdd up anyway.... but it sound like possibly you lost your video card. try an un-install of the driver then do a re-boot to see if it works. if not, the recovery may fix what creates your woes..
Well everything else on my computer works fine. I did update my graphics driver recently, but I don't remember if the problem was occurring before or after the driver update. Thanks for the idea. Do you have good way of going about non-destructive recovery? Hmm, the way I last remember how to do it is deleting the windows directory and re-installing or something?
it would be in you start menu.... somewhere under dell tools or dell support... if not, reboot the pc and hit F8 i believe or F10 on start up and it will take you to that menu, then select NON-DESTRUCTIVE recovey only.... but do a HDD back uo first just in case... you know, save all your proggies, data, pics, music, stuff like that ! assuming you have XP... try this link http://www.windowsreinstall.com/install/oem/Advent/advent_XPpc.htm found this link too... http://groups.google.com/group/micr...ecovery+on+dell&rnum=1&hl=en#d88cd5807cb01c49
