[Dmarti29]

Ok, here is my story and it has a happy ending.

I have 2 laptops. One is my business and home machine that I use daily. I also use it to test updated from MTU before loading them on my Sony Vail which is a bit older and slower, but a workhorse.

When I loaded 4.0 and 4.1 everything worked just fine on both machines. Then I loaded Service Pack 3 on my Acer (home machine) and I no longer got grahpics. So, I didn't update the Sony since it was working and I sucessfully made it thru a show, although there were two or three times that it locked up and went down. But it restarted ok and all was fine.

I spend hours and hours trying to debug my Acer and thru the help of the great folks here on the Forum, I went out and joined a driver community and reinstalled the driver for my Acer from sIs. That SOLVED THE ISSUE and I went ahead and loaded MS Service Pack 3 on my Sony. To my surprise, everything worked just fine!

It appears that some audio and video drivers that are original may not be compatible with the newest service pack. But now, not only do both machines run 4.02 but they are both considerable faster as well.

I would update media player via Windows Update, while at it, update anything else that is out there for your machine. Then, if no graphics, update your video card. I can send you a link if you need one, but just a google search will result in a ton of places where you can find the driver for your video card.

Good Luck...