When trying to view movies I'm having serious problems.

[tacos]

I'm having a serious problem with my windows media player. When trying to view a video in any format it starts up and then all of a sudden my computer goes completely crazy. I have all kind of unusual images on my screen. I ran my nortons antivirus thinking it may be some kind of virus. However, my definitions are up to date and it has found nothing.

I can play mp3's with the player. I just can't view any form of video. I have to turn my computer off using the surge protector just to get off of the crazy screen. I have tried everything. I have even run gateway goback. Nothing has worked yet.

The only other thing I can think of is that I opened up my computer yesterday to measure the agp slot on my motherboard and touched it with the tape measure while the cpu was off. Could this have effected it? Is there anyway to correct this problem. Everything else I have runs fine. Please help.

thanks:(

[tacos]

Ok everything else is not working fine. I just tried to watch a dvd in my dvd rom drive and it started up just fine. Then it went all crazy like the media player. Anyone know what I can do about this? thanks

[RED Hot Machine]

Have you tried reseating the video card?

Also try reseating any other components in the area around the video card, ram, sound card etc. Check that your ide cables are plugged in fully aswell.

[Subzer0]

ill tel you what i was getting, btw my probs were all in 98se.
any avi clip or movie would crash on me but mpegs were fine.it would reset my pc! i never did figure it out as i dual boot with xp pro and id watch the avi's in xp then i formatted ,but im putting my experience here to compare to ! id love to know what could have caused it as they were working fine b4.

[pcgirl]

Have you tried using different software to view movies? If so, do the same things happen?

I would try reinstalling windows media player and see if that makes any difference....

[Teacher_Doug]

Also check the resolution required. If you have an older monitor or video card, it might not be able to handle highre resolutions or refresh rates

[Bmxpunk86pl]

wild guess, try installing the divx codec or installing some because some avi are compressed using divx.

[Subzer0]

in my case i had the codec already and it was working fine untill i got that vieo clip about"how to unlock an Athlon XP" then it started to **** itself and no other programs made a difference. i dual boot so i just played em in xp but i really spend more time in 98 for the moment

[mcennis3]

That happened to me. I finally just did a clean reinstall and used my backup disk. Takes an hour to do a clean install/drivers/ hardware/backup....takes 4 days trying to look for a solution.

[twump]

go to www.divx.com and look for links to a program called nimopack. it is a collection of codecs that fix ALOT of errors in videos. videos with no sound get their sound back, videos with sound but no video get their video back. videos that are high file size but horrible quality can sometimes come out picture perfect.


just my .02