I am using a AMD Athlon 64 Processor with Radeon 9600 series video card with a Gigabyte K8 Triton series K8N Pro motherboard.
I download music videos from the internet and when i try to play them the system goes into a blue screen(which does even last long enough for me to read it properly) and reboots. I tried to reinstall XP a few times but the prb persists. These video files are not bad file because i play them in my P3 machine. Sometimes it reboots when i am playing it and other times its when i click on the video files itself. I have no idea what this might be.
I thought that a component in my PC can be deffective but how come it only does that when i try to play some videos. Also certain other videos play fine. I am very confused and frustrated. If anyone can give me some help on what to do to fix this i would greatly appreciate it. Thanks in advance!!!
download VLC and try playing the files with it…if your system still crashes we can probably rule out that it’s a Windows Media Player issue (assuming that’s what you are using).
I tried to reinstall XP a few times but the prb persists.
so did you successfully reinstall XP?
also, were you able to play these files at some point or has your system always crashed with them?
I get a similar problem on my “machine at work” (used for web design). Im running dual 17 screens on a radeon 7000, its fine but every now and again if you try play a complex game mostly shockwave 3d ones it does the same “Blue screen of death” reboots.
Its coz the graphics card is ****e, struggles and bums out its probley on its way out, but hey its not my machine.
Sounds like a similar hardware conflict or fault could be sound card coz that is used for video and sound files. or ram. apparently it can be 1 of only 12 things.
If you can read the “blue screen of death” you can search for the fault. :trout:
I am using a burned copy of XP and i am also using the dual screens like someone mentioned. This could be a problem with the video crd. I doubt its something to do with any other component but that. The motherboard comes with the nFROCE 3 chipset or something and i have a radeon vid card. maybe thats the case.
Burned copy doesn’t matter, dual screen shouldn’t cause restarts. Also, make sure you clean your computer, compressed air or vacum cleaner works great. I doubt nForce and ATI cards would have a problem, although they’re rivals, they’re still compatible.
