Video won't play at all, only audio..

[Detective]

I can't get video to play on my system since it Xp was re-installed. I have DivX player, WM player 10 and Xvid and the relevant codecs but only audio will play when I try and play an .avi or dvd. When I try and capture vidoe from for Samsung digital vidoe camera it won't show in the preview box and won't play back, but if I click on my video camera through MY COMPUTER, it will play what is on the tape in a small screen. Any ideas cos I am really stuck?

[directhex]

reinstall your graphics card drivers

[Detective]

I'm having trouble with that - I've downloaded the driver but when i try to install it it stops half way through and says "Setup was unable to complete installation. Try to set up your display adapter with a standard vga and try again." Does that mean to lower the resolution cos I've got it set at 1680x1050?

[Detective]

Finally got it working, reinstalled driver but made no difference. I've turned hardware acceleration off and it works. Any ideas why - i don't want to have to keep turning hardware acceleration off to play video...

[directhex]

your off-screen drawing is broken

it's a driver issue - almost always a graphics driver issue, but sometimes motherboard chipset too

[Detective]

Thanks - I've downloaded and installed the latest driver (after first uninstalling the other one) but no luck. Wired2Fire - where it is unbder warranty from - say it is probably a settings/issue but it will have to go back to them to check and if it is a driver/settings issue and not a hardware one I'll have to pay the carriage!!

[Detective]

Thanks - it was the motherboard - just had it changed for an A8N-SLI and all working fine...