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About Chris Morrison
Expertise
Installation of cards. Difference between card types. What card is best for your purpose. Driver problems. All video issues.

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15 years experience with building, repairing and upgrading PCs. Technical support experience.

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Topic: Video Card Problems



Expert: Chris Morrison
Date: 6/15/2008
Subject: 22" Westinghouse monitor will NOT play dvd

Question
Hi Chris: I bought a 22" Westinghouse Monitor LCM-22w3 about one year ago. It works fine for day to day stuff, but when I want to play a DVD--it just won't work. The screen flashes black and then back to the Windows Media Player/Real Player. I was able to set it to the proper resolution when I got it so I thought the video card was fine. Today I tried again and got a message that it might be the video card needs updating. I can't find any info on this problem. Any ideas? Like I said it works fine all other times, even to watch streaming video online.

Answer
Easy enough.
You'll need to find what type of video card you have.
Right click my computer and choose manage. Scroll down to device manager. Expand display adapters. Write down the make and model.
If the card is Nvidia or ATI, get the driver from their website (free download).
If the video card is anything else, go to the computer manufacturer's website, support page, put in the model and/or serial and download the newest video driver. They may list several, thats why we wrote down the make and model.

You also may need codecs.
http://www.codecguide.com/download_kl.htm
Its free and includes DVD codecs.

Between the new driver and new codecs tha5t should solve the problem. Let me know if it does not.

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