Unable to play sound after fresh installation of Windows XP Home

[Wiro]

I recently changed my hard disk, and therefore I reinstalled Windows XP Home and install Windows Media Player 11. I started to play some sound, but the software refuses to return the pictures to me ... I installed all compatible codec packs that I could find but nothing!!! I tried to install another player like VLC media player, Real player, Quicktime but no go !!!!

At last I came to in order to get some solution to this problem ....

[Nihir]

What happens in practice when you want to see a video: does it blacks out, possibly an error message and do this happens with all types of videos.

[Wiro]

yes, it happens with all kinds of video and while scrolling the screen, windows media player appears dark in color: with 2 black vertical stripes on the right and left .. And no error messages

[Nihir]

Might be your graphics card drivers? Which graphics card are you using ? Have you upgraded your drivers ?

[Wiro]

My graphics card is Radeon 9200 SE, I clicked on Update Driver, and then restart but the same concerns...

By the way, how can we know if the drivers (named) are up-to-date?

[mv]

Regarding the drivers, ATI has stopped developing a number of cards along with its updates... Regarding the matter, the latest driver is version 6.11, otherwise requires version 6.5 with CP (Control Panel).

Can you give us your config: Processor, RAM, ...

Before installing the new one, uninstall the one already on your PC from "Add / Remove Programs".

[Wiro]

I have not yet applied the latest drivers because of a small fear! And to conclude the message, my machine config: AMD Athlon XP 2600 + 210 GHz 512 MB RAM.

[kraal]

Just download GSpot that tells you exactly what codec is your video encoded.

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