Compaq 5190, Windows XP Pro, HP 8210i, & MS 2.611

[ksgrandell]

Yes, things work. The 8210 works fine with XP. The video works fine. And, as of today, MS works fine.

After a couple of days installing and re-installing Windows 98 SE and Windows XP Pro, and MS, both MS 2.609 and 2.611, with no success, just for giggles, today, I disabled DirectX 9 and gave it a whirl...

And, everything with MS works great!

I just finished recording and testing a CDG. Beautiful sound, and beautiful lyrics on the screen. Both on the PC and the monitor attached to my stereo and karaoke player.

I am, just for the record, running MS 2.609. I haven't re-tried MS 2.611, yet.

Go figure...

[ksgrandell]

MS 2.611 works as well, after disabling DirectX.

[MTUSUPPORT]

Can you tell me what you mean when you say that you Disabled DirectX 9? I know that all of our programs use this, so this should be needed. Also how did you disable this, I am not aware that you can?

[ksgrandell]

I can tell you what I did, whether I completely disabled the features of DirectX required by MS, I guess I'm really not certain after reading your reply. Anyway, I ran DXDiag, selected Display, and disabled DirectDraw Acceleration from within DirectX Features. Doing so also disabled Direct3D acceleration and AGP Texture Acceleration. And MS works fine now.

[MTUSUPPORT]

I understand what you have done now. Just not exactly why this would work, this should make it fail, but if it is working then great.