hmj Posted March 10, 2006 Share Posted March 10, 2006 Just installed MCE 2005 on an old hp Vectra 933mhz. I have 256mb ram and nvidia club GeForce fx5200 128mb graphics card. In the normal xp window every thing is fine, just a little flickery using the s-video output to TV. When switched to the media centre mode the menues are completely illegible. Horizontal black lines cross the screen and white lines shoot accross the back ground in all directions. When you scroll through the menus the whole screen flickers and re-draws itself and jumps all over the place. When watching a dvd every thing is fine as are the online features. Its just the main menu's, pictures and music screens. Its the same on both monitor and tv. The PC's PSU is only 120w, could this be a the problem? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bionicman Posted March 10, 2006 Share Posted March 10, 2006 Your problem is your whole system. System requirements are available from Microsoft. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hmj Posted March 10, 2006 Author Share Posted March 10, 2006 Your problem is your whole system. System requirements are available from Microsoft.rats....I didnt realise that MCE had minimum system requirements, i just thought that it has hardware requirements for gfx, sound and tv tuners.I have searched microsoft.com for sys requirements but i cannot find any. Can anyone help? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay_Stealth Posted March 16, 2006 Share Posted March 16, 2006 check windows update, i think this was fixed in rollup 2. Also see for and update to your video card drivers. Your machine will be capable of running it despite the slightly lower than required system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bezalel Posted March 16, 2006 Share Posted March 16, 2006 I have searched microsoft.com for sys requirements but i cannot find any. Can anyone help?here are MS's recomendations CPU: 1.6GHz without software encoding and 3.0GHz with software encodingHDD: 60GB +RAM: 512MBGPU RAM: 128MB DDRRecordable DVD DriveBroadband Ready Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pantner Posted March 27, 2006 Share Posted March 27, 2006 I have searched microsoft.com for sys requirements but i cannot find any. Can anyone help?here are MS's recomendations CPU: 1.6GHz without software encoding and 3.0GHz with software encodingHDD: 60GB +RAM: 512MBGPU RAM: 128MB DDRRecordable DVD DriveBroadband Readyeven so, he has a supported video card, so the menu should look fine...he might have issues trying to watch/record digital tv, but it should look ok... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nitroshift Posted March 29, 2006 Share Posted March 29, 2006 Set the Tv region to whatever country you live in. This is done through the graphics card's control panel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ranjit jacob Posted March 29, 2006 Share Posted March 29, 2006 Set the Tv region to whatever country you live in. This is done through the graphics card's control panel.but how would that help him ???. What abt the resolution have you tried changing it ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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