r30 display adapter

Hi all - I'm a newbie to the Vista Beta program. I'm participating in the Vista beta program at the request of my employer. I've been reading a lot of posts in this and other Vista forums, several of which have helped me solve some minor issues. So far my biggest challenge was getting a compatible antivirus installed. I opted for the McAfee 8.x beta because it's the only one that would install and update correctly.
In the last couple of days, however, it appears my display adapter has not been functioning properly when I view videos with Windows Media Player. I keep getting a message that the "...R30 Display adapter stopped responding...and has been recovered...". My screen will "black-out" and then reappear when this occurs. I can even restart and run Windows Media Player as if nothing happened. The problem first appeared using the Microsoft driver and it still appears after updating to ATI's beta display adapter. I'm using Vista on a Dell Inspriron 6000 with the ATI Radeo X300 display driver, running 1680 x 1050 resolution.
If anyone has any suggested workarounds, troubleshooting suggestions it would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks. Dennis

This sounds more of a Driver Issue.. Have you contacted Ati.com via an email explaining your problem?
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Hi all - I'm a newbie to the Vista Beta program. I'm participating in the Vista beta program at the request of my employer. I've been reading a lot of posts in this and other Vista forums, several of which have helped me solve some minor issues. So far my biggest challenge was getting a compatible antivirus installed. I opted for the McAfee 8.x beta because it's the only one that would install and update correctly.
In the last couple of days, however, it appears my display adapter has not been functioning properly when I view videos with Windows Media Player. I keep getting a message that the "...R30 Display adapter stopped responding...and has been recovered...". My screen will "black-out" and then reappear when this occurs. I can even restart and run Windows Media Player as if nothing happened. The problem first appeared using the Microsoft driver and it still appears after updating to ATI's beta display adapter. I'm using Vista on a Dell Inspriron 6000 with the ATI Radeo X300 display driver, running 1680 x 1050 resolution.
If anyone has any suggested workarounds, troubleshooting suggestions it would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks. Dennis

Yes - I emailed ATI, but they have yet to respond.
Cortez
"Deansweb2004|NT" wrote in message

This sounds more of a Driver Issue.. Have you contacted Ati.com via an email explaining your problem?
-- Deansweb2004|NT - Dean Wronowski Server2003 R2 (Grasshoppers) NNTP Hoster SourceCentral - http://www.deansweb2004.com
"dch" wrote in message Hi all - I'm a newbie to the Vista Beta program. I'm participating in the Vista beta program at the request of my employer. I've been reading a lot of posts in this and other Vista forums, several of which have helped me solve some minor issues. So far my biggest challenge was getting a compatible antivirus installed. I opted for the McAfee 8.x beta because it's the only one that would install and update correctly.
In the last couple of days, however, it appears my display adapter has not been functioning properly when I view videos with Windows Media Player. I keep getting a message that the "...R30 Display adapter stopped responding...and has been recovered...". My screen will "black-out" and then reappear when this occurs. I can even restart and run Windows Media Player as if nothing happened. The problem first appeared using the Microsoft driver and it still appears after updating to ATI's beta display adapter. I'm using Vista on a Dell Inspriron 6000 with the ATI Radeo X300 display driver, running 1680 x 1050 resolution.
If anyone has any suggested workarounds, troubleshooting suggestions it would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks. Dennis