HOPE SOMEBODY CAN ASSIST... i have a dell which crashes when i play any video in any format AVI/DIVX/MPEG4/DVD i use vlc and also cyberlink dvd player i get alot of my movies off the net and as soon as i open the folder with the media in my windows screen shows an erros message and then crashes my windows screen thus stopping any work that i ma doing at the time this never used to happen i have checked for any kind of virus and nothing can be found, i also have windows media center which no longer works with my sky box saying i do not have the correct drivers installed. I got all this when i brought the pc so i do not have any discs to reinstall. i ahve looked at the reg and there seem to be a few video drivers installed but i do not know which one is supposed to start up. could these problems be linked ? is there anybody that can shed some light PLEASE...........

Determine your video card brand/model (or chipset, if onboard video). Go to the manufacturers website and download the latest drivers. Install the downloaded drivers (you may be wise to uninstall the existing drivers first). Device manager is the best way to determine hardware/driver combinations. It's also the place to uninstall existing drivers. Please let us know if you found someone's advice to be helpful.

Sci-Guy Thank you very much i will try this.