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Color all messed up

1. rmc9591Salvaged from archive5 Oct 2006, 22:57
   When i go to view most vidoes, not all just most the color is really messed up. I dont know how to explain it much more thatn that, the only colors are yellow green blue red, basic colors like that.
2. Big OzzieSalvaged from archive5 Oct 2006, 23:24
   Monitor is shot......http://www.websmileys.com/sm/comp/comp26.gif
3. rmc9591Salvaged from archive6 Oct 2006, 01:19
   no its not the monitor because i had it happen on the dell i used to have. by the way this is a new computer. but my brother who knows more about computers than i do downloaded something that fixed it. but i dont remember what it was called
4. tim2xSalvaged from archive6 Oct 2006, 03:53
   If this is only when viewing videos, does it happen in just the Windows Media player, or in all of the players that you try to use? ( flash player, real player, quicktime, etc.) If it is in all of the players, you may want to find the software that specifically came for your video card, and re-install it, then go into that configuration and make sure that you have the settings correct. If it is only in one specific media player, you will also want to reload the codecs and drivers for the media player. You should be able to find them on the websites from the company that built the player. You may want to re-run the mother board disc ( not the restore discs that came with your computer, unless you want to lose everything. Your mother board disc will say what it is exactly. ) You can re-load the drivers from that for all of the system hardware. If you do not have a specific mother board disc, contact the computer manufacturer, especially if it is a new one like you said, and have one of their techs walk you through the software issue. If they can't do that for you, then they need to replace something.
5. tim2xSalvaged from archive6 Oct 2006, 03:55
   Also, what is your computer? Video card specs, processor, OS, RAM. Does the video card have it's own built in RAM, or does it use the system?
6. rmc9591Salvaged from archive6 Oct 2006, 19:46
   i think its the codecs, i built my computer myself( im just not THAT software savy)but my system specs are: core 2 duo E6400 Gigabyte DS3 2 GB patriot 667 RAM sapphire 1900xt 512 it only happens in windows media player, i havent tried quicktime but flash works EDIT i downloaded the new windows media player and so far everything is playing fine. thanks a lot
7. tim2xSalvaged from archive6 Oct 2006, 23:04
   i think its the codecs, i built my computer myself( im just not THAT software savy)but my system specs are: core 2 duo E6400 Gigabyte DS3 2 GB patriot 667 RAM sapphire 1900xt 512 it only happens in windows media player, i havent tried quicktime but flash works EDIT i downloaded the new windows media player and so far everything is playing fine. thanks a lot Nice. Sounds like a gamer rig. glad you found the issue.
8. rmc9591Salvaged from archive7 Oct 2006, 01:26
   yeah it was the only thing that has been messed up, as my first build ever it turned out to be very easy. i had no problems at all besides this.

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