Help!! RivaTNT and DVD.

Hobbes

My friend has installed a RivaTNT card into an IBM aptiva machine and now the DVD doesn't work anymore.

As far as I know the Video part is on the main board of the Aptiva.

Anyone have any ideas?

Helv

Dunno, possible make sure the integrated card is disabled in device manager?

Not exactly sure what you are getting at...conflict????

[This message has been edited by Helv (edited 14-09-99).]

Hobbes

As far as I know the games and windows run fine. It's just when the DVD is run it doesn't work.

Helv

Sorry but I really dont know much about the TNT. It is DVD compatible I take it?

MrBlonde

Yup, DVD compatible.

Should be a Xing player or summmin to play DVD with TNT2 Ultras neway

WhiteWashMan

i'll get back to you hobbes when i get into work.
since i work for ibm and support aptivas, should be no problem finding out how to get it working.
first thing i would do though is make sure that dvd software is installed properly, make sure graphics card installed propperly and make sure drivers are newest.

but since tnt doesnt ship with aptiva, you dont get no free help from me
white(1800-772 2227 ibm pc helpcentre)wash

Hobbes

Hey aren't we in the same Borg collective? You can't charge me.

What the chap has done is setup two hardware profiles. one for watching DVD's (TNT disabled) and one for normal (TNT enabled).

He can't disable the vid on the board, cause it won't work at all. What it looks like is the DVD software is getting confused.

I've had something similar on the mac happen (the DVD software will only allow me show it on one monitor at any one time). I had two large monitors set up to show a movie in my lab but the thing would only let me show on one, so we all ended up watching it on one monitor

WhiteWashMan

why did he disable his tnt card?
surely thats only 3d isnt it?
and if it is 2d/3d why not just run through that?
and what happens when you disable the original graphics card?

try removing display drivers in device manager. rebooting, going into bios and setting the on-board-video to disabled.
this will stop it from reinstalling. your monitor will reinstall itself as will your tnt and all should be hunky dorey.

that is if you can actually run dvd through a tnt.
just get a voodoo3. so much easier!

McGuire

Could it be a BIOS setting ?

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WhiteWashMan

you cant disable on board video on aptivas

McGuire

Yes you can, you can disable them usually via BIOS setting or in Device manager (probably under Display adapters). There's no such thing as non-disablable
Anyway, forget about SoftDVD, use the registry hack for Windows media player instead to get a better player. A lot less visual banding in it than in SoftDVD for some reason.
Its up in the regsitry section of 3dspotlight. At least it will be in a few days once the guy updates the article for me, sigh. Least on IOL I could update automatically, sigh

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Hobbes

WWMan is correct as far as I know (the guy has already tried) and WWMan would know

Hey WWMan, whens the wearable PC's coming out by IBM?

WhiteWashMan

what wearable pc?
is that like a fashion accessory?

and mcguire, most aptivas that come with onboard video are not able to be disabled in bios. sometimes you can choose the pci slot over the agp as your main graphics card slot and sometimes you cant. there are very few aptivas with bios disable on board video. i think all those were the black stealth machines that came out about 3 years ago
and i would indeed know as i support that shaggin machines.
christ i do about 10 formats a reloads a day and the rest of the times its idiots who are tryin to intall 2 printers, 2 scanners, a second hard drive, a second cd-rw (and want to know why they dont get sound from their second cd but do from their first) and external zip drive and a modem and a network card and then wonder why their pc keeps freezing. i actually had a case like this last week. woman shouted down the phone as to why i couldnt help her unless she took of all the peripherls that werent supported by me. which was just about everything listed above.
im surprised she didnt try to stick on a second monitor and coffee maker as well
soopid americans

WhiteWashMan

can you give me the machine type and model no on the aptiva hobbes?
if you give me the 16 didgit no at the back of the pc starting with is21xxxxxxxxxxxxx
i can see what i can do for you.
unless he fixed it himself!
want a job in ibm?

Hobbes

Erm I work for IBM

WhiteWashMan

yeah but yer a localisation muppet or somethin arent ya?

Hobbes

International Development actually

Btw, saying you work in localisation is like saying "I work in computers". Too broad a statement.

WhiteWashMan

wouldnt know to be honest.
afaik localisation was just about changing software to he local dialect, setting etc.

hell, im only a hardware technician!
i fix harddrives!

and youre out of warrenty.
heresd the no to microsoft and theyd be happy to help
thank you for calling ibm

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