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D800 lid close hangs media player
Howdy. Recently got a D800 (nVidia GeForce FX Go5200) and found that while watching a captured MPEG via TV out, closing the lid would cause Windows Media Player to hang (100% CPU usage).
Having had good results with Omega drivers on my Inspiron 5100 (ATI Radeon), I decided to try the nVidia version out on the D800. Seemed to fix the problem, but now the TV out doesn't kick in and the video doesn't stretch properly to fill the window - it stretches just the bottom row of pixels all the way to the bottom.
Anyone exprienced any of this behavior before?
Regards,
Cup.
- No, I don't. What I'm trying to do is be able to close the lid and continue to watch the TV output. When I close the lid, the display drivers detect this and (I'm guessing) switch to using the TV as the primary display or something. When I reopen the lid, the LCD flashes on and off a few times (also annoying) as it switches displays back. Media player doesn't seem to like the switch at all.
If I could just get the display drivers to ignore the lid-close altogether I'd be much happier (assuming the LCD backlight would still switch off ok).
I just tried uninstalling the omega drivers and installing the latest display drivers from Dell's site. After several tries (including removing the device, booting in safe mode etc.) it stills says it's using the old (Jan 04) drivers, which is odd. So no idea if the latest drivers help. :(
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Posted November 19th, 2004 08:00