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I think I have a unique problem,
I have Windows XP Media Edition, clean instal, Windows Media Player 10, DirectX 9c, ALL the updates from microsoft update, the newest drivers for my ATI Mobility Radeon 9600.
BUT... I can't play ANY video files! The windows media player 10 crashes, then when it does the "not reponding" thing and "End Task" thing, my whole system crashes! I move the mouse a little bit, nothing... then... mouse freezes. I have to hold the power button to shut down, and restart.
I've tried mpg, wmv, and avi(with the newest DivX6 codecs. I even tried using the DivX 5.2.1 codecs because I heard they were more reliable.) but DivX aside, I can't even play windows media videos??? I don't get it... WINDOWS MEDIA player, with WINDOWS MEDIA edition XP, and I can't play WINDOW MEDIA videos? I'm seriously stuck. Please help. Is my video card not good enough for XP Media Ed.?
My Laptop:
AMD 2.13GHz
512 MB Ram
ATI mobility 9600
(ALL updates, and updated drivers)Please help! Thanks!
jpintaiwan, SWAG, first thought across my feeble is memory. A video requires a huge amount of video memory. Are you sure your video card has enough? What about stuff running in the background? Is it possible you have enough things running that they use up available machine memory?
HTH.
Ed in Texas.
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It's jpintaiwan again,
When I turn on my computer there is only one short beep. It's a laptop and it works fine. As for the Memory thing, I only have 512MB of Ram. Do I need more? I use a program called FreeRAM XP Pro, and when I only use internet explorer, norton, and MSN messenger, FreeRAM tells me that I only have 40% memory left. If I had more RAM in my computer would it help? or do I need more memory on my Video card? (meaning a new video card...)Thanks for the help, and let me know if I could try anything else.
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well your problem might be just that maybe you can buy a new Video card
but since you can't even watch video on windows media player i suggest you reinstall it and if that doesn't solve it, you defenately have to do a repair of windows because it looks to me that its not a hardware problem but its a OS problem
write back if this information was helpfull
Mess with the best, die like the rest!!!!
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JpinTaiwan again...
Well, I'm not going to buy a new video card, and I just installed this OS... so... I'm sorry, but I have to find a better solution. The only problem is... I CAN'T uninstal windows media player because it's imbedded in WinXP Media Edition so I can't reinstal it. I've tried that with no success. I can install the DivX player and play DivX videos through that program, but it sucks because if I want to use Media Connect... I get no dice!
Still no solution... I still need help...
Anyone?.... Anyone?.... Anyone?....
Bueller?.... Bueller?.... Bueller?....
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JpinTaiwan again...
One more thing to add:
I can play DivX files on the DivX player perfectly. Is there a possibility that the .mpg codec on my computer is messed up? I don't know much about codecs, and I wondered if that could be a problem. Could someone inform me more about codecs, or where and how I could reinstal them on my computer.Thanks again for all your help.
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I have a similiar problem.
My system used to crash when I played a video. I have a laptop with Win XP Home edition and an ATI Mobility Radeon 9600. I used every player I could think of. It didn't work- except for irfanview that would crash only the program. If I closed the program and ran it again, the video would play, but the system would crash when shutting down.
Later I formated the pc. Video played fine, no crashes. And now it started crashing again.
I'm trying to think about all the programs I installed recently. So far I came up with:
- LDC++ (though it's not installed, just extract and ready to use)
- Configured Windowns Media Player 10 (It was installed but I had never used it)
- Secure W2 Client (to use wireless network in college, but i didn't have it before format)
- Realtek AC97 driver update (my soundcard)I think that maybe one of this programs is conflicting with the video player. I would bet on windows media player, as it is a video player, but not the default. The realtek driver update could also be the problem.
Can anyone help?
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This is probably of no use, but this happened to me this week. I'm running XP Home with 512 RAM. Purchased another 512 at CompUSA, installed it, and videos that had been running will would crash the system. Tried it 5 times with same result. Took memory out and everything is fine. I was very careful to install the correct memory, but something was wrong with it.
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I have this exact same problem. You think it could be a hardware problem? I have an AMD Athlon processor, ATI Radeon video card. Running XP Pro and all the latest codecs.
The only program that will play any video whatsoever is Media Player Classic. Everything else crashes instantly when I load the video file. Evidently I'm not the only one with this problem. I'll try removing some memory to see if that's to blame, but I don't understand how that could be the case... everything else works fine... only video crashes.
Any other suggestions?
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