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aliansAnonymous Visitor
 | I build my machines myself. Recently, I switched to using
Intel motherboards instead of Supermicro because they
had better support layers for Microsoft operating systems.
In the past, I would always turn off the onboard video
and put an ATI card in one of the slots. Recently, I have
started using the onboard Intel Graphics because they
work pretty well now. When I build the machine and install
the OS, I am usually pretty meticulous about going into the
device manager and making sure that all devices are either
listed as working properly, or they are disabled. I don't
usually install a driver unless I absolutely have to.
Imagine my surprise then, when I went in recently and discovered
that Windows had the video adapter listed as not working properly.
I know that at one point it was working correctly. Obviously, over
the course of the last few years, one of the programs that I
installed on the machine had corrupted the video driver.
The worst part of it was that the machine gave me no
indication of the problem. Programs that I use regularly
like Premier, Sonar, Audition, Ableton, DVB Dream, ProgDVB, etc.
all were working just fine. Nevertheless, I reinstalled the
driver for the onboard graphics and got all of that working
again. It didn't seem to have any effect on all of the
other programs that I just mentioned. They all still work
fine. I even went in to Dxdiag and it told me that everything
was cool. I nuked Sichbo and installed it again, but it is
still doing the same thing. At this point, it is probably
a compatibility issue with some of the hardware. More than
likely, it is the video card.
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