Re: VLC pixelated gray screen
Posted: 11 Jan 2018 14:28
You have done it correctly. Whilst it may seem counter intuitive to my original description, setting AHCI LPM to "active" effectively disables HIPM & DIPM.@thesandvolcano - I tested RAMdisk and for me at least, you're dead right, it's a disk power management issue. I made the change to the registry as per your instructions and the ACHI - Link Power Management - HIPM/DIPM option appeared in the Power Options / Advanced Options screen. I was expecting to be able to disable it (as I thought that if this was the problem, that's what I should do - perhaps I misunderstood you?), but that option wasn't available. So instead, I chose "Active" and voila, the video is running smoothly again....at least for now. I've no idea if this is the opposite of what you were recommending, but thanks either way.