Presentation Director: oemdspif.dll cannot be loaded

[treydur]

i have this problem. I am on a Z61T which has an integrated Intel graphics card. (9440-D9U)

I ended up loading ATI drivers for docking station, which I had a PCI-e ATI x550 installed in. The docking station, incidently, is probably going back, to many issues.

I am able to easily get a second monitor to work while just on laptop, but cannot load Presentation director at all. I get oemdspif.dll cannot be loaded. I have uninstalled and reinstalled all files related to Presentation Director with same results.

I have completely uninstalled the ATI drivers, have even downloaded an run an ATI system driver cleaner. So, there should be no ATI references here.

Is it that Presentation director thinks its needs an ATI card/driver to run ? If so, how do I 'tell it' to quite looking for the ATI card ?

As an aside, Function + F7 seems to do nothing. I was able to run Presentation Director once and it even saw the second monitor.

THanks for any help

[barrywohl]

I just installed Vista Business 32 bit and loaded all the Lenovo applications by way of System Update 3.

I did a clean install on a new hard drive. I still have WinXPsp2 on the original hard drive (thank goodness).

I get the same "OEMDSPIF.DLL cannot be loaded." when I attempt to launch Presentation Director.

I am running the ATI driver version 7.14 that Vista installed. I've downloaded but not installed the 8.33 version from the Lenovo website. I can't find the ATI Catalyst program either.

I'd like to see the solution to this.

Barry

[barrywohl]

This thread:

http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.ph ... 580#265580

Fixed both of my problems.

Loading 8.33 from the Lenovo site was the answer.

Barry

[treydur]

Hi Barry

Two problems with that fix. One, my video card is the Intel, not the ATI, two I am running WinXP Pro, not vista.

I have this problem whether docked or not, and the only time ATI comes into play is when I am docked.

http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.ph ... 580#265580

Fixed both of my problems.

Loading 8.33 from the Lenovo site was the answer.

Barry[/quote]

[ThinkFanatic]

Have you uninstalled/reinstalled Presentation Director after you removed all of the ATI stuff? Not 100% sure it will fix it, but there may be some "hooks" in PD that are looking for the ATI stuff you uninstalled.

I am really surprised to hear that Fn+F7 does nothing. Even with everything else messed up, if you have the hotkeys driver loaded that should toggle you between LCD-only/external-only/LCD+External.

I would uninstall PD and then run TVSU to update everything. Good luck!