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707134 2008-09-23 06:24:00 I have purchased a used OEM XP Media Center PC which works perfectly well in every respect except that when I configure the display adapter for TV output (clone mode) the TV will display everything except Media Center. If I open Media Center the screen goes black with only the cursor visible.I can press the windows start button on the keyboard and the screen will come back but if I click on anything in Media Center the screen will go black again. This happens even if the TV is not connected to the PC. Media Center works fine if the display is configured for monitor only. Any ideas? NIGGEL (2358)
707135 2008-09-23 07:03:00 How are you connecting the PC to the TV - what sort of cabling/ Connections ? wainuitech (129)
707136 2008-09-23 08:02:00 Composite cable from video card, ultimately hoping to use composite via AV sender to TV NIGGEL (2358)
707137 2008-09-23 08:08:00 Problem is, the screen goes blank even if the TV is not connected. It happens as soon as I configure the display adapter for TV output. Am I doing it wrong? NIGGEL (2358)
707138 2008-09-23 08:27:00 Do you know what the video card is?, make?, model even, we could check the manual! SolMiester (139)
707139 2008-09-23 10:34:00 ATI Radion x300sePC1e 128 mb DDR VGA/TV out NIGGEL (2358)
707140 2008-09-23 10:43:00 . feersumendjinn (64)
707141 2008-09-23 11:00:00 Do you have the right video driver for MCE
game.amd.com
Maybe this'll help
www.amd-firefly.com
(click the 4th then 2nd items).
feersumendjinn (64)
707142 2008-09-24 09:31:00 Thanks for the links. I will look into it but since this PC was built for MCE I would have thought it would have the correct drivers already. NIGGEL (2358)
707143 2008-09-29 08:08:00 Tried the new driver Plus Windows updates to no avail. Found a fix on another forum which suggested to create a new user profile and start WMC under the new user. Works perfectly. Must have re-initialised WMC under the new user profile. Now I only need to switch profiles to view WMC on the TV. Anyone know how I can re-initialise WMC under my old profile so I don't have to switch users? NIGGEL (2358)
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