Video file lost upon opening laptop lid during capture

[Barrington2]

I have a GeForce4 4200 Go display adapter/Driver v6.7.4.2. in a Dell Latitude D800 Laptop, using XP Pro w/SP2. When I OPEN (not when it is closed) the lid of the laptop while capturing live video with a camcorder using a Firewire cable into Windows Movie Maker, the video file that is being captured is lost with all of the captured video. It’s size goes to zero and then starts over. A message says the resolution changed so the capture stopped and could not be saved, however, I could not see that the resolution had changed. When I try to capture with Pinnacle Studio 10 I have the same problem but without the message. When I disabled the NVIDIA Display Driver Service the problem went away, however, Standby, Hibernate and Dual Monitors didn't work and when I closed the lid, the backlight stayed on. And when I started the computer there were some messages (too fast to read) and beeps indicating that I probably should not have disabled the service, so I enabled it. I have the computer set to "Do Nothing" when I close the lid. Things work OK when I leave the lid open. I have tried three different Dell laptops and all have the same problem. I have the latest patches, drivers and updates. One of the computers has never been on the Internet, doesn't have virus protection and has no Windows Updates. I tried the suggestion re changing the LidBehavior setting from an 11 to a 10 in the Registry but that did not help. I tried it in one place and in five places.

Any ideas?

 

[wahnula]

Things work OK when I leave the lid open

Then leave the lid open. It's like the patient that tells the doctor "it hurts when I do this" and the doctor says "don't do that"...

There apparently is a function of the lid switch that is confusing to WMM.

Tony

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