OK, I have a older PC now that is feeding my projector untill I can afford a newer one ...

I just picked up an ATI 9200 Rad 128MB vid card from a friend for really cheap, I previously had an old school ATI AIW 16mb.

I installed the card, everything installed correctly including all software ..... However when I play back a DVD, or try to. I get errors.

In ZP, I get the red screen message listing several possible problems
In PowerDVD, DVD will play back buts its jittery
In WinDVD I get a message that says, Overlay failed (or something to that extent)

If I view the advanced display properties, and go to the overlay tab, all the controls are greyed out and it wont let me function them

Anyone know why this is doing this .... Ive unistalled all DVD playback software and re-installed to no avail ...

Just throwing out an idea, would it maybe driver issues? Did you uninstall all the AIW driver and get the latest catalyst drivers?

Clinton

No I didnt ..... so Im restoring to an old point now, and going to try that .....

What are catalyst drivers and why would I need them, I have the software disc that came with the card, wouldnt those be acceptable?

Install the latest ATI catalyst drivers, and for powerdvd, turn on hardware decoding. It is not enabled by default.

Everytime you replace the video card, you NEED to uninstall the drivers and install new ones for the card you just put in.

Catalyst is just a video driver, except it was named by ATI, for ATI. Just like Forceware for NVIDIA.

I updated the catalyst drivers and all is good ....

I tried to uninstall the old drivers, but couldnt ....

it was an old AIW card, that didnt have any drivers/software made for XP, however some default XP drivers worked great for it. Go figure .....

When I removed the old card, all traces of it were gone .... I went searching through everything ..... I guess since there was no software, nor official drivers installed, there was nothing to uninstall

Nonetheless its all working now!!

Good to hear.

Clinton