[AmyU]

Help! I have been using VideoWave 8 for a slideshow with photos and accompanying audio. Now I'm trying to go back and add text to certain slides. Adding text to my blank slides has not been a problem. However, every time I attempt to add text to a photo slide, and particularly when I try to "move" the text box to a corner or to another space on the slide, my my hard drive (or something) goes nuts. I can hear it whirring loudly -- same thing each time.

And then it locks up my VideoWave and gives me an error that "Windows Display Driver stopped responding. The ialmrnt5 display has stopped working normally." And then I get huge icons on my desktop and the grainy display. (Excuse my ignorance in not knowing proper terms for this situation. I'm not that "techno savvy.")

Anyway, I have a big, bad PC (or so I thought), not even a year old. It's a Gateway GT5026E. Intel Pentium D CPU, 2.80 GHz, 0.99 GB RAM, Windows XP Home Edition. Not sure what other info you need.

Please advice as I'm getting frustrated and I don't want to kill my PC over this video!

Thanks,
Amy

[grandpabruce]

AmyU, on Sep 20 2006, 07:47 AM, said:

Help! I have been using VideoWave 8 for a slideshow with photos and accompanying audio. Now I'm trying to go back and add text to certain slides. Adding text to my blank slides has not been a problem. However, every time I attempt to add text to a photo slide, and particularly when I try to "move" the text box to a corner or to another space on the slide, my my hard drive (or something) goes nuts. I can hear it whirring loudly -- same thing each time.

And then it locks up my VideoWave and gives me an error that "Windows Display Driver stopped responding. The ialmrnt5 display has stopped working normally." And then I get huge icons on my desktop and the grainy display. (Excuse my ignorance in not knowing proper terms for this situation. I'm not that "techno savvy.")

Anyway, I have a big, bad PC (or so I thought), not even a year old. It's a Gateway GT5026E. Intel Pentium D CPU, 2.80 GHz, 0.99 GB RAM, Windows XP Home Edition. Not sure what other info you need.

Please advice as I'm getting frustrated and I don't want to kill my PC over this video!

Thanks,
Amy

It sounds like you have an onboard video chip, for which you need to update the drivers. If you are lucky, you won't have problems after that, but my guess is you need to update to an actual video card that supports all of Direct X functions needed for the software.

[AmyU]

grandpabruce, on Sep 20 2006, 05:03 AM, said:

It sounds like you have an onboard video chip, for which you need to update the drivers. If you are lucky, you won't have problems after that, but my guess is you need to update to an actual video card that supports all of Direct X functions needed for the software.

Thanks for the advice Bruce! I'll see if I can figure that out. I'm a bit of a computer idiot but I'm sure I can find someone to update my video card for me. That'll certainly save me some frustration when using this program.

Amy

[AmyU]

AmyU, on Sep 20 2006, 07:25 AM, said:

Thanks for the advice Bruce! I'll see if I can figure that out. I'm a bit of a computer idiot but I'm sure I can find someone to update my video card for me. That'll certainly save me some frustration when using this program.

Amy

Bruce, you said that I need to update the drivers. How do I go about doing that?

Also, I currently have DirectX 9.0c on my PC.

[sknis]

AmyU, on Sep 20 2006, 02:46 PM, said:

Bruce, you said that I need to update the drivers. How do I go about doing that?
Also, I currently have DirectX 9.0c on my PC.

First you need to know what you have. Use Belarc Adviser to get the specs on your computer or go to Windows Start> Run> type in dxdiag> OK and look at the display tab. What is listed for your device on the left side of the window? I suspect that you have video chips on your mother board so an investment in a new card should be a consideration. But the video chips may still be good enough.

[elcaminojoe]

sknis, on Sep 21 2006, 01:41 PM, said:

First you need to know what you have. Use Belarc Adviser to get the specs on your computer or go to Windows Start> Run> type in dxdiag> OK and look at the display tab. What is listed for your device on the left side of the window? I suspect that you have video chips on your mother board so an investment in a new card should be a consideration. But the video chips may still be good enough.

If you got Paint Shop Pro as a freebee with your PC, you can add the text to the photo in that program and then bring it into your show. I've been having trouble trying to add text within the Roxio product, and this was my work-around until I figure things out

[Noel]

I am having the exact same problem on my new Dell Laptop - Inspirion 6400. I would like to hear all the solutions that are possible.