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I found this video card has a label "Mad Dog" on it, so I did a bit research on the net and found the driver for it, it's a NIVIDIA Geforce MX440 driver. In the BIOS I set the Primary video to PCI-the "Mad Dog" card, cuz the screen looks better, everything is fine until I try to play DVD movie, strange enough, the movie only plays in black and white. When I set the Primary video back to Onboard, the color is back. Why is that? I went through the Mad Dog control panel, nowhere can I found anything to do with color or B&W,  Did the Mad Dog eat all my color?  :-? :-?

MacPCDog eat all my color?LOL

What DirectX do you have installed? :-? :-? :-? Hmmmm, I am pretty sure it's all up to the latest, this is running on Windows 2K Pro SP4 with the latest update from MS, the first thing I do after a freash installation is to go on MS to get every update they have, I assume all DirectX are there, is that right?

Oh, the vedio card has only 64M of RAM, could that be the problem?

MacPCDid you uninstall the video drivers then download and install from Nvidia?

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Hi,

I found this video card has a label "Mad Dog" on it, so I did a bit research on the net and found the driver for it, it's a NIVIDIA Geforce MX440 driver. In the BIOS I set the Primary video to PCI-the "Mad Dog" card, cuz the screen looks better, everything is fine until I try to play DVD movie, strange enough, the movie only plays in black and white. When I set the Primary video back to Onboard, the color is back. Why is that? I went through the Mad Dog control panel, nowhere can I found anything to do with color or B&W,  Did the Mad Dog eat all my color?  :-? :-?

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I had simmilar problem years AGO, turned out it was a mixture of incorect resolution and too many colours, mess around with them with various combinations. It might work.
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Oh, the vedio card has only 64M of RAM, could that be the problem?

No, that card should have no problem playing DVDs.

You mentioned a "MADDOG" control panel.  Do you mean nVidia control panel?  You should see an item in your Windows Control Panel for nVidia nView Desktop Manager.
Yeah, that's what I meant the NIVIDIA control panel. I have the PC HOOKED up to two monitors, one goes to te Mad Dog crad and the other one goes to the onboard video. when I drag the screen of the MOVE form te Mad Dog monitor to the onboard monitor, the movie is in color, but when I drag it back to the Mad God monitor it changes back to B&W, I tried to set the resolution and the color depth on the Mad Dog, it doesn't seem to help.

Can I teach this mad dog a new trick?  

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I found this video card has a label "Mad Dog" on itMacPC ...
You "found" it.  Did you buy it, or was it an unused card you happened to obtain at no cost?  What do you know about its history?

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In the BIOS I set the Primary video to PCI-the "Mad Dog" card, ...  When I set the Primary video back to Onboard, the color is back.
So, if you set onboard video as primary in your BIOS, the PCI card displays normal color?  


Yeah, I found this card when I was cleaning out the closet, it was still attach to an old PC. The PC isn't MINE, it was sitting there for 3 years and no one claims it. The card seem to be working fine, the color is good and nothing seem to be wrong with it except when comes to playing DVD movies. I never play with vedio card before  so I am not sure what to do.

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