Video Lockup

[Guest Scott]

When i play any movie that uses media player, the video freezes but the audio

continues for around 4 seconds then my entire computer locks and i am forced

to hard reboot. i have XP home, latest video card drivers and direct X.

specs

AMD athalon 3600

gig of DDR ram

ATI 9800

 

this started 2 days ago. I have installed no program since this. System

restore does not help even when i restore far behind the day it started. I

have up to date AVG anti virus, spy bot resident shield sygate personal

firewall and ad aware....This copy of windows is probably 4 weeks old. its

very new. Any advice? because i have no desire to waste yet another 3 hours

of my life reinstalling XP.

Thank you for your time.

[Guest Andrew E.]

RE: Video Lockup

 

First open system properties,advanced,performance,page file,change button,

set to:"let system manage" from the custom setting its in,click set

2X,close out,

a restart pc should be prompted..Also,open event viewer to get OS details

when

the pc locked up.

 

 

"Scott" wrote:

> When i play any movie that uses media player, the video freezes but the audio

> continues for around 4 seconds then my entire computer locks and i am forced

> to hard reboot. i have XP home, latest video card drivers and direct X.

> specs

> AMD athalon 3600

> gig of DDR ram

> ATI 9800

>

> this started 2 days ago. I have installed no program since this. System

> restore does not help even when i restore far behind the day it started. I

> have up to date AVG anti virus, spy bot resident shield sygate personal

> firewall and ad aware....This copy of windows is probably 4 weeks old. its

> very new. Any advice? because i have no desire to waste yet another 3 hours

> of my life reinstalling XP.

> Thank you for your time.