An annoying problem, hope someone can help. I have a Time Computers laptop with Mobile Amd Athlon 1600+ 256mb ram integrated S3 Twister K graphics 30gb Hard Drive Crystal WDM Audio Codec Int Dvd-Cdrw combo Pcmcia wirless network card When i play Avi Films on the laptop, nearly everytime the laptop crashes sometimes blue screen but most of the time it just freezes and restarts, it especially happens if i skip through the video. This is getting annoying as i want to watch films when i am at work. The codecs that are on the computer are : Divx 5.2.1 Codec iccvid.dll Indeo video 5.10 ir32_32.dll ir41_32.ax iyuv_32.dll msh261 msh263 msrle32.dll msvidc32.dll msyuv.dll tsbyuv.dll Xvid Mpeg-4 video codec any ideas would be helpfull Thanks Columbo1977

More ram would help. Less resource using player, I would go into programs, windows media folder and get the icon for mplayer2, send to desktop. Use that. Would be easier for machine to play vids off harddrive, not rom. Shut down any programs not needed for video. Run an avi thru VirtualDub and see what it says. Check to see if dub says any about timestamps etc, May be why the film takes so long, if there missing, then the player has to count eah frame till it gets to spot slider is sending tom or just a slow machine. Any updates missing? And get back to work, sheez. KPACHbIЙ OKTIABR

if the blue screen has error messages on, and the messages are the same each time, try typing the codes into google and see what it finds. I have found solutions that way sometimes.