No video in Media Player and Quictime

[blbinaz]

I recently upgraded my video card to a PNY GeForce 6600 AGP on a VIA Technologies, Inc. KT333CF-8235 board, AMD Athlon XP 2600 and 1GB RAM. Now I am getting no video on Quicktime and Microsoft Windows Media Player and the processor runs at 100%, locking up the system.
If I set the video acceleration to none I get the first frame of the video, some sound and that's it. Video on web sites seems to be fine. I have tried downloading the latest driver from NVIDIA web site and codecs also. Still no video.

 

[ski]

Uninstall and reinstall WMP and QT.

 

[blbinaz]

Already tried it. I just found out that the motherboard only supports 4x AGP (the graphics card was bought for a board that supported 8x but it got fried). Any way to enable the card to run at 4x? Otherwise I guess it's buy a new board.

 

[ski]

As long as the MB's AGP slot and the video card have the same signaling voltage(3.0, 1.5, 0.8), then the card should work.

 

[blbinaz]

How do I check that? Also could an underpowered power supply be the problem?

 

[ski]

You have to check the specs for the video card & MB, either in their documentation or online.
A weak PS may be the cause. What size is installed, and what minimum size does the video card recommend?

 

[blbinaz]

I contacted PNY and they had me look on the motherboard's website for updated AGP drivers. That solved the problem. I should have thought of that myself as it is an older motherboard. Thanks for all your help.