Hello group, I sure hope someone here can help me, for some unknown reason
in the last couple of days, my pc will not allow my son to play any one his
games, ie, Thrillville of the Rails, Tornado Alley, MS Flight Simulator,
also none of the 3D microsoft screen savers are working. I have not
downloaded anything, nor do I have a virus.
I did a restore to an earlier time which is a real pain, because I have to
un-install Norton to be able to do this, but everything was ok again, but
then again this am we are right back where we started. Does anyone know of
this issue and how to correct it?
Thanks so much for you help.
--
Donna/Indiana
Mom to Carl 25, Hayden (LKS,LDD, Autism), Robert(Aspergers),(Trevor(NT) 9
(Triplets)
Madison(NT) 6
Wife to Mark

Haydens video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBtizuTTz28#GU5U2spHI_4

My Blog: http://tripletmomplus2.blogspot.com/

Hayden's website: http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/haydenswisher
"The mother of a disabled child will never take for granted a "spoken word".
She will never consider a "step" ordinary. When her child says "momma" for
the first time,
she will be present at a miracle and know it" Erma Bombeck

Re: Sudden problem with 3D preview of screensavers and now games do not run on pc? help by Tripletmomplus2

Tripletmomplus2
Thu Feb 21 07:45:56 PST 2008

Well I had already tried this and it tells me a newer or same version is
already installed, so where do I go from here? This is so strange, I have
never had this kind of issue before.


--
Donna/Indiana
Mom to Carl 25, Hayden (LKS,LDD, Autism), Robert(Aspergers),(Trevor(NT) 9
(Triplets)
Madison(NT) 6
Wife to Mark

Haydens video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBtizuTTz28#GU5U2spHI_4

My Blog: http://tripletmomplus2.blogspot.com/

Hayden's website: http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/haydenswisher
"The mother of a disabled child will never take for granted a "spoken word".
She will never consider a "step" ordinary. When her child says "momma" for
the first time,
she will be present at a miracle and know it" Erma Bombeck

"Thee Chicago Wolf" <.@.> wrote in message
news:r66rr3hbk1tiaadiqtgtfi8i0nf9f6qmtb@4ax.com...
> >Hello group, I sure hope someone here can help me, for some unknown
> >reason
>>in the last couple of days, my pc will not allow my son to play any one
>>his
>>games, ie, Thrillville of the Rails, Tornado Alley, MS Flight Simulator,
>>also none of the 3D microsoft screen savers are working. I have not
>>downloaded anything, nor do I have a virus.
>>I did a restore to an earlier time which is a real pain, because I have to
>>un-install Norton to be able to do this, but everything was ok again, but
>>then again this am we are right back where we started. Does anyone know of
>>this issue and how to correct it?
>>Thanks so much for you help.
>
> Try installing the DirectX November Redistributable and see if it
> helps:
> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=1A2393C0-1B2F-428E-BD79-02DF977D17B8&displaylang=en
>
> - Thee Chicago Wolf



Re: Sudden problem with 3D preview of screensavers and now games do not run on pc? help by Tripletmomplus2

Tripletmomplus2
Thu Feb 21 08:26:22 PST 2008

ATI Radeon X1050 256ram video card as far as I know it's current, I just
installed this last fall when I had issues with some video editing.



--
Donna/Indiana
Mom to Carl 25, Hayden (LKS,LDD, Autism), Robert(Aspergers),(Trevor(NT) 9
(Triplets)
Madison(NT) 6
Wife to Mark

Haydens video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBtizuTTz28#GU5U2spHI_4

My Blog: http://tripletmomplus2.blogspot.com/

Hayden's website: http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/haydenswisher
"The mother of a disabled child will never take for granted a "spoken word".
She will never consider a "step" ordinary. When her child says "momma" for
the first time,
she will be present at a miracle and know it" Erma Bombeck

"Thee Chicago Wolf" <.@.> wrote in message
news:mb7rr358tbqg99gqmr10k5sk1e2v02pc93@4ax.com...
> >Well I had already tried this and it tells me a newer or same version is
>>already installed, so where do I go from here? This is so strange, I have
>>never had this kind of issue before.
>
> What video card is installed and is the driver current?
>
> - Thee Chicago Wolf



Re: Sudden problem with 3D preview of screensavers and now games do not run on pc? help by Tripletmomplus2

Tripletmomplus2
Thu Feb 21 11:23:56 PST 2008

Well I found the problem while checking another problem, for some reason my
pc won't install a recent update from MS. In looking at my recent updates,
it shows a driver update, well I rolled back to the previous driver and
everything works now, but how can I change it so MS does not install this
again, as it will not work on my video card for some reason. Also what do I
do about my pc not wanting to install this latest update from MS.

thanks, you have been my savior today.


--
Donna/Indiana
Mom to Carl 25, Hayden (LKS,LDD, Autism), Robert(Aspergers),(Trevor(NT) 9
(Triplets)
Madison(NT) 6
Wife to Mark

Haydens video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBtizuTTz28#GU5U2spHI_4

My Blog: http://tripletmomplus2.blogspot.com/

Hayden's website: http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/haydenswisher
"The mother of a disabled child will never take for granted a "spoken word".
She will never consider a "step" ordinary. When her child says "momma" for
the first time,
she will be present at a miracle and know it" Erma Bombeck

"Thee Chicago Wolf" <.@.> wrote in message
news:ncbrr3h6h4df8uvtpqe3s0hldr7rvh0hqb@4ax.com...
> >ATI Radeon X1050 256ram video card as far as I know it's current, I just
>>installed this last fall when I had issues with some video editing.
>
> The most recent driver (version 8.2) was released on Feb 13th. In
> device manager, it should have a date of 1/22/2008, and a shown
> version of 8.453.0.0 if it is current. Please verify this is what you
> driver version states. If not, here's a direct link to the current
> driver:
> https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.com/gamesite/8-2_xp32_dd_58128.exe
>
> - Thee Chicago Wolf



Re: Sudden problem with 3D preview of screensavers and now games do not run on pc? help by Allan

Allan
Fri Feb 22 17:53:37 PST 2008


"Tripletmomplus2" <markswis@gte.net> wrote in message
news:gdkvj.59705$we5.22108@trnddc02...
> Well I found the problem while checking another problem, for some reason
> my pc won't install a recent update from MS. In looking at my recent
> updates, it shows a driver update, well I rolled back to the previous
> driver and everything works now, but how can I change it so MS does not
> install this again, as it will not work on my video card for some reason.
> Also what do I do about my pc not wanting to install this latest update
> from MS.
>
> thanks, you have been my savior today.
>
>
> --

>
When visiting Microsoft Update, ignore all hardware/driver updates and get
them instead from the manufacturer or hardware vendor. These are usually
optional anyway. I don't believe that graphics card driver updates install
through Automatic Updates.

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Allan