bad codec or bug maybe?

[barnfly808]

Aloha Gang,
When I try to play a video file in WMP or any player I get multicolored lines all across the screen as to where the video is not viewable. Audio,wave..mp3 play with no problem. When I turn off WMP there are still lingering lines at the task bar area and around the mouse pointer. This was happening and i had bad sectors on my C drive so i swapped it out with a new one and still the lines persist. This includes reinstall of WP. The lines persist. Any ideas? Thanks for your time....bob

[guns1inger]

Might be worth re-installing or updating your graphics drivers.

[barnfly808]

Re installed drivers, catalyst etc no joy still lines when any video is played..??

[minidv2dvd]

maybe a bad card? try running a test program like this.

http://freestone-group.com/video-card-stability-test.htm

[barnfly808]

Aloha Gang,
Ran that vid card test 2x. Both times as it started the lines multiplied all across the screen and about 20 sec. into it,= blue screen"a problem has been detected......seems to be caused by the file ati2dvag." This is on my older email machine with an agp card radeon 1300. I have an editing machine and a laptop. Also was gettin' ready to upgrade email machine after the holidays anyways. I guess I could pick up a cheap agp card for now or just transfer anything I realy want to view ,video wise to one of the other machine. As i said in earlier post I just reinstalled software so must have latest drivers or maybe put in older set?? Thanks for your help..bob

ps then went back and ran benchmark=55fps and then tried stability test and it ran for 20 min with the result=failure