# Computer freezes when playing video

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/computer-freezes-when-playing-video/38340>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [December 21, 2003, 2:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/computer-freezes-when-playing-video/38340 "2003-12-21T14:31:14Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![blah\_de\_blah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a8b319/32.png) [@blah\_de\_blah](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/blah_de_blah)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2003, 2:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/computer-freezes-when-playing-video/38340/1 "2003-12-21T14:31:14Z")

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Why does this happen!! I just reformatted everything, but when i try to play a video in kazaa or using windows media player, the whole computer just slows down (pretty much freezes)…:-\ Does anyone know why?? thanks :?)

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2003, 3:24pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/computer-freezes-when-playing-video/38340/2 "2003-12-21T15:24:01Z")

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sounds like a ram problem, maybe you are overheating, what are your specs?

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2003, 3:29pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/computer-freezes-when-playing-video/38340/3 "2003-12-21T15:29:55Z")

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shouldn’t be because everything worked fine, its just that i hadta reformat my harddrive, and so i changed from win 2000 to XP. Now i get this problem :-\

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2003, 4:36am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/computer-freezes-when-playing-video/38340/4 "2003-12-22T04:36:26Z")

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after getting all the critical updates and everything, the same still happens! ☹ What should i do!!