Satellite X200 - HD-DVD playback problems

Hi,
I've recently acquired an Satellite X200.
I decided to upgrade to the latest drivers and applications found on the Dutch support site.
Since I now have my first HD-DVD player, I also bought the latest Harry Potter on HD-DVD.
Playback with no upgrades didn't work, so I upgraded to the newer HD-DVD player.
Playback worked fine now, but when I upgraded all other stuff (Broadcom decoder, NVidia drivers, etcetera), playback hangs after just a few seconds.
I now rolled back pretty much everything and I can play the movie fine again, but ofcourse I would really like to keep my drivers up to date. Anyone here with similar experiences and (hopefully) a solution?
Another problem I have is when I hook up my TV through HDMI, playback stops.
The TV is not HD, but can downsample HD signals perfectly. I have an XBox 360 connected that I tested this with, but with the Toshiba, it just won't play.
Again, any and all tips are welcome...
Maurice

Hi there,
I would suggest you to reinstall the whole system and update your BIOS since it could be that the software is a bit overloaded or your system has too much stuff which is probably unnecessary.
Mostly the problem surely could be a damaged driver so please try e.g. a display driver from the european driver download site, maybe the work better than the dutch versions.
I assume that the problem is somewhere to search on the display drivers since the issue sounds really like them.
Is your X200 a SLI machine? If not then you could try this site www.laptopvideo2go.com because they have the most actual drivers and they fitted the drivers for mobile system.
Good luck

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