WinXP + AdvanceMenu = nothing??

[Brad Lee]

Since getting my video card back and reinstalled I did a reformat and reinstalled winXP. Copied back over my mame directories (mame37b16 and advance menu), deleted all my configs, ini's, rc files, etc. mame -cc to recreate a new config. Run advancemenu to create a defualt .rc, run it again to create mame.lst. Run it again, which should actually launch the frontend and NOTHING. I get an hourglass for a few seconds, and then nothing. Same with advv and advcfg- nothing happens. Mame by itself runs fine- i also tried .53 and .66, as well as mame32

I know it works 'cuz I had it going last time I had XP installed. I don't have anything fancy setup, basically just XP and radeon drivers. My drive is partitioned into 4gb C:(os) and 16gb D:(mame) but I know it works on different drive letters.

I'm stumped

[Frostillicus]

yeah i had the same problems with advmame - i was trying to get it set up and it just constantly and without exception froze up,  though only with advcfg (yes I had everything set right).  Anyways, HC informed me the keyboard led's don't work in XP with Advmame, so I'm just going back to the regular binary.

[Brad Lee]

It's not freezing up though, it's like it thinks about running and then decides against it

<edit> This is with the regular build of mame37b16, not advance

[Thenasty]

did you pu the irght value for what type of monitor your using in advmenu.rc ?

[Brad Lee]

Yup- well actually I just used the generic NTSC tv as given in the docs
I was looking thru the compatible video cards and my exact model isnt in there- there's a bunch of different radeon 7500's but the all-in-wonder isn't explicity listed.
I've been playing with the -log switch on the command line and it's looking like it can't find a good mode so Ive got a little bit of messin more to do before I give up