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drmih
11th January 2009, 14:08
I have seen so many references to this across the web but the solutions vary and it's driving me mad. Any help would be grateful.

My system was working fine until sometime before Xmas but now something has changed (I may have installed something but nothing obvious). I have an ATI x1950 graphic card running under Windows Vista Ultra 32bit and now it only plays hd-dvd (I have an LG GGW-H20L) - blu-ray discs play but with a black screen for the video in HD material - the menus are there as are some items like the copywrite messages. The sound is also present. I have tried original discs, original discs with Anydvd running, ripping the discs to the HDD, and even ones converted with BD-RB. All worked fine until recently. I have upgraded PowerDVD to the latest version, the new ATI Drivers (8.12), update the LG firmware, and updated vista with SP1 but still no blu-ray. The same problem occurs with Windvd. I did try a trial of MediaTheatre (to be able to play material off the HDD) which was fine but I uninstalled after it expired.

Am I going mad?

Kado
11th January 2009, 14:15
Is your connection DVI or VGA?

laserfan
11th January 2009, 15:57
Am I going mad?I have an almost identical system to yours (except Win XP & PDVD 7.3 v3319a) and have a slightly different problem: my PDVD works great, but when I installed TMT I got the black screen problem for HD! Tried my damndest to get it work but haven't yet!

I have my days when I'm amazed, for as complicated as this PC software & hardware is, that the bloody thing works at all! :devil:

drmih
12th January 2009, 00:16
It's DVI via an adapter to vga.