Media Center won't run with Aero turned on.
Posted by admin on Jul 9th, 2006
Hi. I've got Vista Home Premium 32bit. My system is a S478 P4 3.4 Ghz, Asus P4S800EDeluxe with SiS chipset. Theres 2GB RAM and 3 SATA HDDs . Theres a ATI Radeon X700 AGP graphics card with the latest 7.2 driver from ATI/AMD site. All ran well with XP for 2 years also. I have Vista for about 3 weeks now. Its had no troubles, I have either Microsoft drivers running stuff fine, or got Vista drivers for stuff and no problems for weeks. The computer is very fast and I spent years upgrading to a system that I liked, and then the dualcores came out, etc! But this is a great system for me, by no means slow or anything. The system runs perfectly with Aero turned on and I can do any number of things flawlessly, but as soon as I try Media Center all it starts is a blank dark grey screen, like a black screen with light shining through from behind, effect. The entire system is locked, can't CTRLALTDEL, no mouse or anything. I have waited ages a few times, I have to reset it to reboot.Thing is that I can turn Aero off and can run Media Center perfectly fine! I don't watch any TV and its not connected for TV or recording, I just wanted to look at it at least, I set it up for my photos and any video on my hard drives. I have searched high and low for any insight to this. I can only assume it will be sorted out with updates and new drivers as soon as enough people have a problem.Can anyone tell me anything more about this?Thanks. Neil