Richard Lai Posted January 4, 2006 Report Share Posted January 4, 2006 Hi guys! I have recently installed Media Center Edition on my laptop (a Fujitsu, running on P-4 1.6GHz). It has an ATi Mobility Radeon M4 (yes it's not top of the range), and every time I start up Media Center is says "Your video card or driver is not compatible with Media Center" and it says the same thing when I try to open a video in Media Center. I don't seem to understand why Media Center would refuse to play videos - it's basically Windows Media Player isn't it? And I don't have any problems with WMP. Would any of you guys know how to beat the system? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted January 4, 2006 Report Share Posted January 4, 2006 Have you checked on the card manufacturers website for the correct drivers?https://support.ati.com/ics/support/default...ge&folderID=294 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Lai Posted January 4, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 4, 2006 Have you checked on the card manufacturers website for the correct drivers?https://support.ati.com/ics/support/default...ge&folderID=294I have and they no longer support this model (Mobility Radeon M4) because it's about 4 years old, which is probably another reason for why MCE won't support it. But then to me Media Center is just a slightly different version of Windows Media Player so I don't see why it's not possible to play videos in Media Center using my card. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted January 4, 2006 Report Share Posted January 4, 2006 I'm stuck then. Perhaps someone else will be able to help but, I'm not hopeful.There is more to Windows MCE than being a tarted up version of Media Player. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Lai Posted January 4, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 4, 2006 I'm stuck then. Perhaps someone else will be able to help but, I'm not hopeful.There is more to Windows MCE than being a tarted up version of Media Player.It's really just Windows XP with an extra application called "Media Center"... I dunno... Was hoping someone would know how to hack into the system and force it to accept my card. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted January 4, 2006 Report Share Posted January 4, 2006 It's really just Windows XP with an extra application called "Media Center"... I dunno... Was hoping someone would know how to hack into the system and force it to accept my card.I appreciate that but there is more to MCE than just being XP and Media Player - otherwise there would be no point in selling the MCE version. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb Posted January 5, 2006 Report Share Posted January 5, 2006 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/902166/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catgate Posted January 5, 2006 Report Share Posted January 5, 2006 Take heart from the fact that there is never a "problem" with M$ products. They are only "issues". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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