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Having video problems after upgrade!

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by yoshi.andersen

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Okay I upgraded my windows 98 to windows xp home. I was able to view my dvds and videos online just fine but now it just keeps skipping or the volume works but the video just frezzes. Is there a driver I need to down load. Please help, Thanks!

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by thechas

How much RAM does your system have?

And, do you have integrated video or a separate video card?

XP will function with 512MB of RAM. But for things to work well, it needs 750MB to 1.5GB of RAM. If you have less than 512MB of RAM, adding RAM should fix most of your problems.

If you have integrated video, it shares some of your system RAM and just makes things worse.

That said, you might need new drivers for most of your system hardware.

While Microsoft drivers aren't bad, they often are not as good as the manufactures drivers.

What you need to do, is identify the hardware in your system and get the latest drivers from either your system manufacture, or the hardware manufacture.

If Windows did identify your hardware properly, a utility such as Belarc Advisor
www.belarc.com
works good for home systems.

Chas

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