Title Page Stays On - Video Driver upgrade solved problem

[Wayne White]

I figured out which disks have a problem, but, have not solved my problem. This is obviously related to a combination of this paricular laptop's settings and the change Star Disc did to remove the STAR and put an A in it's place in the Title (in mid 2006). The problem starts with Country Disk # SD462 & the Pop Disk # SD4607 & every Star Disc since then. This coincides with the Change in their Name on the Title Page.

These songs play fine on every other computer I have (3 of them are on Vista). I tried to reimport SD462 on this computer, but, it told me it was already imported so I didn't go to the trouble fo deleting it, but I did import one song (as if a singer had brought the disc to a show) and it still has the same problem as the version on the laptop.

To refine what the problem actually is; the Title Page stays on for a Looong time & then fades dimmer & dimmer & then the words come up really fast & it ultimately catches up...

The Laptop is a COMPAQ Presario CQ60 Notebook. It has 2GB Ram, a 32 bit processer, which is the AMD Dual-Core QL-62 2.00GZ

I have searched for title page problems & haven't found anything helpful (and have updated the computer with all upgrades available & verified/made all the changes MTU recommends for Vista).

This problems may have happened to others 3 years ago, I am hoping someone can remember it...Wayne

[Wayne White]

I forgot to list that the it has the NVIDIA GeForce 8200M G video card...Wayne

[Roy Dennis]

Have you tried running it with your anti virus software turned off ?

Roy.

[Wayne White]

Yes I have turned off the anti virus

[Wayne White]

It is amazing that no one else has ran into this problem. This is every Star Disc after they changed their front page by replacing the STAR in their name with an A.

I have several computers & this COMPAQ Is the only one that has this problem. I am guessing that it may be the video card because I have uninstalled everything it doesn't need to run.

Does anyone else have a NVIDIS GeForce 8200M G Video card in a Laptop?

I am about ready to just sell this laptop & start over...Wayne

[Wayne White]

I searched this forum for using looking for NVIDIA 8200 & found a post from July for a similar problem (although his problem was sporatic - I figured out exactly which disks were causing mine).

He went to NVIDIA's site & downloaded an upgraded driver (which I never thought of since I thought it was a new Laptop). The new driver appears to have solved my problem....Wayne

[admin]

Originally Posted by Wayne White

I searched this forum for using looking for NVIDIA 8200 & found a post from July for a similar problem (although his problem was sporatic - I figured out exactly which disks were causing mine).

He went to NVIDIA's site & downloaded an upgraded driver (which I never thought of since I thought it was a new Laptop). The new driver appears to have solved my problem....Wayne

Wayne, I'm glad you found the solution.

It is amazing that time after time, we all think "upgrading" the computer FROM MICROSOFT will bring it up to full upgrade level.

NOT SO!

We were discussing this very point about drivers in meeting at MTU this morning. Why can't Microsoft get their OS to a stable state for everyone to use? One of our Beta Testers just had an "Expert Installer" install Windows 7 on 2 computers ( a 32-bit and a 64-bit) and neither worked right. Gary had to solve it himself!

[ddouglass]

Originally Posted by Wayne White

I searched this forum for using looking for NVIDIA 8200 & found a post from July for a similar problem (although his problem was sporatic - I figured out exactly which disks were causing mine).

He went to NVIDIA's site & downloaded an upgraded driver (which I never thought of since I thought it was a new Laptop). The new driver appears to have solved my problem....Wayne

Never assume a "New" computer is up-to-date. This is unfortunately an assumption everyone makes. They are only good for the last updates they added to their installation disks. I just got a brand new Dell Vostro. I had 33 updates to do just from Microsoft. That doesn't count the ones from card manufacturers.