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Can't view in full screen
Hi
When I'm watching a video on a website such as Youtube, GoogleVideo etc. I have suddenly found that I cannot view in full screen.
I can only view videos in the little box on the website.
If I click to see the video in full screen, then the screen goes black, or black and white seperated by a line diagonally from one corner to another.
I've never had this problem before, this has alwasy worked fine without any
problems.
I can watch videos online without any problem, unless I want to see them on the whole screen. And I can watch Videos on RealAudio or MediaPlayer.
I have tried deleting temp files, uninstalling unecessary software, resetting IE7 to default, nothing works.
Could anyone help with this.
Thanks
inspired1525
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745
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Posted March 17th, 2008 23:00
The reason to this is that you have installed a new graphics driver for Intel X3100 via automatic updates. This is a known issue with the latest driver and what Dell has done is to package the latest driver without even testing it. I think if you will go back to the previous driver, it would solve your problem. The new driver has a few good features like Hardware T&L but what good is that when you cannot watch videos full screen. Basically, intel is very poor when it comes to graphics as they have still not been able to release a fully functional driver for the X3100 even after a year.smiler_cov
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745
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Posted March 18th, 2008 10:00
What you need to do is go into device manager and remove or rollback the current driver for the graphics card then providing you have the orignal drivers disks you should be able to reinstall the original driver and all should be wellinspired1525
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745
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Posted March 18th, 2008 22:00
If you could roll back the driver then that would be very nice but I was not able to do so, so what I did was to download the previous version of the driver from the video driver page at the Dell Downloads (thankfully they still have previous versions) and it worked for me.inspired1525
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745
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Posted March 23rd, 2008 00:00
I think your graphics card is different. Please download the one earlier than the version that you have now, i.e. released at the date closest to the one you have now. I hope this works. :)Hi
I've been trying to do this for a week, but the Dell websit is broken, the driver won't download
I've been emailing Dell for a week, but they keep telling me they keep asking me to check my PC. I keep telling them their website's broken, they keep ignoring me
Communication problems....
thanks
largebus
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745
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Posted March 15th, 2008 23:00
PS
I'm Running VistaHome, Insperon 530, all software updated.
thanks