Video problems

Pepsi · Post by **Pepsi** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 0:11

ok i im not very good at english but ill give it a go

i cant play movies on my computer. it crash or freez everytime i try.
i have all the newest codecs and media players.

i cant play videos on google.com and break.com and so on...

what can be wrong? O_o

spanek · Post by **spanek** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 9:44

pc specs?

Pepsi · Post by **Pepsi** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 19:19

windows XP
2.66 Gz
756 md DDR ram
210gb hard drive
uhm.. geforce 6200 AGP
realtek A90 (i think) soundcard

Maz · Post by **Maz** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 21:20

Just some wild guesses...
Try finding updated graphics card drivers and install them. (possible)
If crashes occurs only when you try to play movies on web, perhaps it's the flash? (just a thought)

Have you installed anything lately? (or removed)

And lastly... Remove Windows XP and install Linux

(Well, if you install Fedora, then prepare to do some coniguring before movies work

)

spanek · Post by **spanek** » Wed Dec 27, 2006 11:57

When you say that is crashes or freezes, you mean all the PC or just the window that you are watching the movie? If all your pc freezes, I am afraid that your graphics card overheats and stops responding.
If it is only the window you are viewing, then try to download new drivers for your card. Maybe that will do the trick as Maz says.

Pepsi · Post by **Pepsi** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 22:38

didnt help to doenload updated stuff

i hope not that my grapfic card overheat.. its under ½ a year old :S

Maz · Post by **Maz** » Fri Dec 29, 2006 2:01

If it's that new, don't you have a guarantee for it?

spanek · Post by **spanek** » Fri Dec 29, 2006 9:47

Pepsi wrote:didnt help to doenload updated stuff

i hope not that my grapfic card overheat.. its under ½ a year old :S

Do you remember when this started to happen? Maybe you did something and is causing the hold-ups. Try to do a system restore to an earlier date and see what happens...

Pepsi · Post by **Pepsi** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 5:04

ok i tested the card on my other hard drive and there i could play movies... so... right now i have no idea of what could be wrong...

spanek · Post by **spanek** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 14:23

Bad sectors maybe?

Pager · Post by **Pager** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 6:37

Try another vid card in your computer if you have one.
I find sometimes that there might be a conflict between codecs and drivers. Is your vid card manufactured by GeForce or does it only use that chipset? If it has a different manufacturer, you might need to get those drivers...instead of the nVidia's drivers...of course you could try either...I had similar problems with a mobile Radeon...
Also what version of XP are you running? SP2??