> Before switching to the EpoX board, I've been using an Abit BP6 board > (which has a BX chipset) with identical software settings and have not > observed anything like this. Same graphics card? same color depth? > So it seems to be a BIOS/hardware related problem. I'd say the gfx card can't deal with the data rate. Guess you are using 32 bpp? With Xvideo it works better simply because yuv video data is 16 bpp, i.e. you need half bandwidth only. Gerd -- Get back there in front of the computer NOW. Christmas can wait. -- Linus "the Grinch" Torvalds, 24 Dec 2000 on linux-kernel