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WMC Black Screen of Death following upgrade to nvidia 285.62 driver
Hi
Run into a problem with Windows Media Centre, which from looking at the posts on this useful site many others have also experienced - but it's new for me.
Just updated my nvidia card to the latest WHQL driver (285.62) - and find that Windows Media Centre now only shows a black screen when playing realtime TV or recorded TV programmes. I can hear the sound track but no video shows. Everything else works fine - and so I'm not sure this is related to the new nvidia driver.
I know that the recorded tv files have content as the listing in WMC dispays a thumbnail image - but that's as much as I get!
I've tested connections and followed instructions on the Windows Support Forum to disable WMC, reboot and then re-enable WMC. That didn't work - and neither did re-scannng the transponder and setting WMC up again.
The problem is definitely just related to WMC as the WinTV 7 (latest version and drivers - 2.4c) works fine. I just prefer WMC - help!
I attach the output from the jcgriff diagnostic program, together with the perfmon report.
I see an error relating to IOCBIOS, which surprises me as I've never overclocked my graphics card and don't intend to. I've tried deleting that service but it persists. Not sure if that's related to the BSOD, either, Also, it's not picked up that I use McAfee at the moment for my virus protection
Hope you can help - thanks in advance