If you have DVD+G400...Please read

[CrazyBee]

I have had no problems with mine with either PowerDVD 2.55 or Matrox DVD. Even when I overclock it.

A fresh install of Windows? Did you remove the entire Windows directory than re-install? I had to do that to get my machine to reconize my ZIP drive and not crash when I moved my DVD window around or when something went on top of it. That was both annoying and weird.

I would suggest backing all of your perishables up, removing the Windows directory entirely, and then installing Windows again. Doing that, as much as a pain in the ass as it is, did wonders for me.

Oh, and I also removed all the PCI/ISA cards aside from the G400. And reinstalled each one at a time.

CB


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Abit BX6 Rev.1
Celeron 366A PPGA @ 566, 2.1v
192 meg RAM, CAS2
13.0 gig Maxtor 4320 HD
6.0 gig Maxtor (in removeable drive bay)
HP8110i 4x2x24
Pioneer DVD-104
SB Live! 1024
USB ZIP 100
G400 32MB DH 5ns RAM
Two KDS 17" Trinitron monitors

[Dave Deehan]

I am also experiencing floating "blue pixels" and posted this problem in MURC back in December '99. (see 'Overlay Problem'). These pixels not only occur in DVD playback but also when watching WinTV through a Hauppauge TV card (in overlay mode, not in primary). The pixel effect is not evident on DVD playback to television, only on the monitor.

I have tried the following without success:
(1) using the most up to date G400 drivers (ver 5.41)
(2) changing a number of bios settings
(3) removing all PCI cards (except soundcard), hard drive format and reinstallation of Win98

Since the blue pixel effect can be removed when watching television by switching off the "allow overlay" and using "force primary" I guess the problem is connected with dxmedia and overlay. Hauppauge supply a utility for switching between overlay and primary but this has no effect on the Matrox DVD software.

In December I emailed Matrox Tech support but as yet they have not replied!!

I had a G200 card before the G400; both DVD video playback and TV were perfect on it.

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Intel 400 Celeron (Slot 1)
128MB PC100 Ram
Gigabyte GA 6BA motherboard (Bios Ver 2.9) - BX chipset.
Matrox Millennium G400 AGP 32MB (Bios Ver 1.5 – 22) [Serial No JBR09331]
Maxtor DiamondMax hard drive 7.5GB
Toshiba SD M1212 DVD (Bios Ver IR22)
Hauppauge WinTV
SoundBlaster PCI 128 soundcard
Panasonic LS-120 floppy drive
Iiyama 19" Vision Master Pro 450

Dave

[Solo22]

I have tried from a fresh install many times...but the problem is still existant.


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PIII-500, 128M RAMpc-100, ADVANCE 5/133 Motherboard, QuantumKA 18.2gig, QuantumST 6.4gig, Creative DVD-Rom 5x, Pioneer CD-Rom 12x, G400Max Dualhead, SB Live, Winmodem 33.6, NEC MultiSync E900+ 19" Monitor, Windows SE