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| Thread ID: 66218 | 2006-02-15 06:55:00 | PC freezes during audio/video playback | rko (9806) | Press F1 |
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| 430576 | 2006-02-15 06:55:00 | Hello . My problem first appeared a few months ago when my little brother was messing with the system files and deleted something . I'm not exactly sure what it was but the result was that my system settings were set to default and seemend unable to save any new settings like wallpaper, resolution etc . Also, whenever I intalled video/audio codecs i had to do it again after every reboot . When I tried to play a video a few minutes into playback pc was freezing completely playing a constant audio sound . I've formatted my hd, reinstalled the system (Win XP pro), but the pc was still freezing while playing video (tried various players) . I tried intalling new drivers/codecs hoping it would help but it didn't . Later I discovered that it also freezes while playing . mp3s, so I figured the problem is with the audio . There were some videos i was able to play and watch for hours without crashing so I checked those to see what video/audio codecs they were using and compared them with those that cause my pc to freeze . As it turned out, every file that was freezing was using an mp3 codec . I got rid of it and started playing loads of videos for testing purposes . No crash . Two months later still no crash and I was sure I've gotten rid of the problem . . until last night when my videos started freezing again and this time none of them are using an mp3 codec as I don't have one . The freezing started again the moment I uninstalled the XP Codec Pack (i had just the video codecs installed, I needed to remove it temporarily) . Please help, I'm desperate :( |
rko (9806) | ||
| 430577 | 2006-02-15 06:59:00 | Most sound chips will support the mp3 codex, so i therefore believe you have either mobo chipset issues if separate card or driver issue with the on-board chip or both. i would check the device manager for driver details...are there updated versions, same with the mobo manufacturer. thats to start with anyway! |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 430578 | 2006-02-15 07:06:00 | I've updated the sound card drivers soon after the first crash. As for the mobo, I've been on the same drivers for ages and never had a similar problem until now. |
rko (9806) | ||
| 430579 | 2006-02-15 07:17:00 | How much ram have u got, whats the CPU in the system, and what programs have u tried already?? Do any entries in device manager have a ? beside it ? |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 430580 | 2006-02-15 08:15:00 | 64mb RAM Celeron 700 No question marks in the device manager. I tried almost every player - WMP, Media Player Classic, Winamp, VIPlay, Micro DVD and many others so I don't think that's the issue. |
rko (9806) | ||
| 430581 | 2006-02-15 08:21:00 | I would get more ram, for starters, if youre using XP . 64 mb is well below the requirements for XP . You're most probably running out of memory . |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 430582 | 2006-02-15 08:56:00 | I've been using it, and watching videos on it for years and this problem only appeared a few months ago. | rko (9806) | ||
| 430583 | 2006-02-15 08:59:00 | I would still get more ram for it, it'll be scraping the hdd soon, once it starts running out of ram. And slowing things down. And using the hdd as virtual memory. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 430584 | 2006-02-15 08:59:00 | are you sure its not a simple case of infection? what AV, antispyware and firewall do you run on it? |
tweak'e (69) | ||
| 430585 | 2006-02-15 09:13:00 | I check for infections on almost daily basis, when the problem first appeared I scanned hdd with everything i could for viruses, malware etc to make sure. Then when I reinstalled the system I did a (failed) playback test before even going online so I haven't had time to catch any infection. | rko (9806) | ||
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