x200 video playback issue - can't display blacks or dark

[lmikey]

Hi everyone,


I've had my x200 for about two weeks and would be interested in hearing whether any other x200 owners are having this problem. I'm running XP (installed by Lenovo).



Regardless of the software used (MS media player, etc), whenever video is played, especially in full screen mode, the screen has a lot of difficulty displaying black and other dark colors. Those portions of the picture break up and shimmer as if it were a very low resolution video, and sometimes looks like a "negative image" of that part of the picture. This occurs even when playing dvd-quality video. Bright colors look ok. This only happens during video playback.



I called Lenovo support and they told me that updated video drivers, to be released sometime in the near future, would resolve this issue. They seemed to be aware of this issue and said that it had been resolved on on older thinkpad models. (I own other thinkpad models that don't have this problem. I typed in ctl+alt+f12 and got this driver information, which appears to be the current version:



Intel(R) Graphics Media Accelerator Driver for Mobile Report


Report Date: 09/13/2008
Report Time[hr:mm:ss]: 14:00:18
Driver Version: 6.14.10.4957
Operating System: Windows XP* Professional, Service Pack 3 (5.1.2600)
Default Language: English
DirectX* Version: 9.0
Physical Memory: 3015 MB
Minimum Graphics Memory: 32 MB
Maximum Graphics Memory: 1024 MB
Graphics Memory in Use: 8 MB
Processor: x86 family 6 Model 23 Stepping 6
Processor Speed: 2394 MHZ
Vendor ID: 8086
Device ID: 2A42
Device Revision: 07



I would very much be interested in knowing whether other x200 owners are currently experiencing this issue, so that I can determine whether it's a hardware or driver issue. Thanks very much in advance.

[pwave]

Hi,

I have exactly the same issue with my X200 under XP Professional. I think it is a bad display driver, although I have installed the lastest one from Lenovo's website... Any resolutions?

[tomh009]

Am not seeing the issue (X200s with Vista Business).

Report Date: 04/22/2009
Report Time[hr:mm:ss]: 21:41:33
Driver Version: 7.15.10.1556
Operating System: Windows Vista (TM) Business* , Service Pack 1 (6.0.6001)
Default Language: English
DirectX* Version: 10.0
Physical Memory: 3031 MB
Minimum Graphics Memory: 32 MB
Maximum Graphics Memory: 1292 MB
Graphics Memory in Use: 98 MB
Processor: x86 family 6 Model 23 Stepping 6
Processor Speed: 1862 MHZ
Vendor ID: 8086
Device ID: 2A42
Device Revision: 07