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. any ideas would be helpfull Thanks Columbo1977

Sounds like a codec problem to me. Can you list exactly what codecs you have installed (ie: DiVX, XViD etc) Gigabyte K8NSNXP-939 Athlon 64 3500+ @2450 Dual - Corsair TwinX CMX512-3200XL Gecube X800 XT Platinum Seagate 200 Gig Coolermaster Wavemaster Silver

you can get gspot. its a program that tells you what codecs you need for the video (avi). Please keep us updated so we know if we helped you or not.

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 Hope this helps. Columbo