FASTER MIKE!!

as above when i try and watch a avi file on either windows media player or real player the computer runs very slowly and sometimes pauses and in a worst case the computer crashes, though no blue screan of death. now ive reformated the hard drive and it still happening. it even happens when i open the folder with all the avi's in. can anyone shead any light of the problem?

cheers mike

jpor

iTrader: (1)

Are you using the manufacturers Graphics card driver? Sounds like your using Microsofts safemode driver to me.

D16GER

Memory issue perhaps? How much memory is installed? Run Memtest to see if it is all okay?

scooby24

I've seen that once and i'm sure it was a dodgy avi movie, if its only happening when you open the avi folder try creating a new folder and moving the avi's one by one till maybe you find the dodgy one.

worth a shot

FASTER MIKE!!

how do i check that?
512mb of ram on a amd 64 3500+ processor. how do i run Memtest?
the grafix card is a nvida geforce fx 5500 128ram
can be the avi as ive since formated the computer and its doing it on other avis

cheers mike

D16GER

Okay, to check what driver is installed, right click on desktop, select settings>advanced>adaptor>properties>driver.

As for Memtest, it is a bootable floppy program. Get it, along with full instructions here

FASTER MIKE!!

when im on desk top i dont get "settings" i'm useing xp if that makes any difference. i take it you mean from control panel, then system? from there im lost

cheers mike

D16GER

Whoops, sorry you need to select properties first from desktop.

jpor

iTrader: (1)

Okay from there: Click the 'Hardware' TAB. Then click the 'DEVICE MANAGER' button then click '+' next to display adapters.

The other way would be at the desktop (Where you may have a picture on it) right click then 'Properties' then click the settings tab.

FASTER MIKE!!

yea done that, also been on the nvida site and downloaded the drivers for the grafix card, it works better but still crashes if i try a one avi then close that down and do that a couple of times it crashes again. when i looked at the setting every thing looked ok no ? symbles

mike1210

Mike as far as crashes when playing them, im not too sure however they may be crashing when you open a folder because windows by default will try to load them all up into memory. This then kills your PC totally, there is a registry fix for this, taken from another website. Common problem with AVI files this

Avi files (divx) can be trouble in xp. there is a fix to let xp behave much better so it's possible to move or delete large avi files. The obnoxious bug in XP that causes Explorer to read the entire contents of broken AVI files before allowing any access to them is caused by bad behavior of shmedia.dll.

To correct this misbehavior in Windows XP, remove the following
registry key.

Go into start menu, then into run and type regedit:

do a search for this key. Can be done with find on the top left of the registry window (i just serached for end number 87xxx and it found it)

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{87D62D9 4-71B3-4b9a-9489-5FE6850DC73E}InProcServer32 (delete this)

This will prevent Explorer from loading shmedia.dll in response to file property queries on these files.

As always newbie or not, if you FUBAR your registry its your own fault. This fix does work, I use it and have applied it to many XP machines. Now go ahead and fix this royal pain in the ***!

John1uk

DID YOU INSTALL THE AGP DRIVERS FROM YOUR MOTHERBOARD MANUFACTURES DRIVERS DISK?????

ChefDude

sounds silly, but also check your sound card drivers.

in the past, my video problems have been down to **** sound card drivers.

jpor

iTrader: (1)

The only other thing I can think of is the actual CODEC. I take it you are using an up-to-date version of Direct X?

FASTER MIKE!!

mike1210 your a star working spot on now!!! thanks for the help scoobnet to the rescue onc again!

mike

FASTER MIKE!!

strange things are happening now minimize a program/window i get funny block over the screen from where the window has gone down to the tool bar. and on msm the smilies are just squares

mike

jpor

iTrader: (1)

Do you have direct x ver. 9c installed? to check this do this:

Click start then click run. Type: dxdiag and press return key.

If you don't then try downloading this from the Microsoft website.

If you do. Then who manufactures your Graphics card? I have heard that the actual card manufacturers drivers can be better than say the Nvidia ones.

FASTER MIKE!!

yea diret x is there. what do you mean by the card manufacturers drivers?

cheers mike

jpor

iTrader: (1)

Okay as it stands you may have a Nvidia Graphics card. But this card will be manufactured by say:

Winfox or XFX or Leadtek or someone else. So with this in mind if you visit the manufacturer site they will have a NVidia driver designed specifically for the card you have.

FASTER MIKE!!

the computer is a mesh matrix, ive got a asus mother board wich has a drivers disc will it be one of the drivers on there?

jpor

iTrader: (1)

Does the drivers disc mention your graphics card?

FASTER MIKE!!

nop couldnt see any. cant find out who make it either??

jpor

iTrader: (1)

Had a quick look on the Mesh site. But they are as use as a 'Chocolate Teapot'

The only other thing you could try is to use a lower dated driver from Nvidia. Or try the role back feature in XP to take you back to the last dated Graphics card driver.

FASTER MIKE!!

seems to be running ok at the mo if it starts playing up again i'll look into the lower dated driver. cheers for your help

mike