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  • 1GKar
    Junior Member
    Junior Member
    • May 2002
    • 45

    PC hanging when watching original DVD

    When watching A Perfect storm my PC will hang after between 15-30 minutes; the time varies. I alt+ctrl+del and the blue screen of death comes up and press any key. I then get the dialogue box and close the dvd player (WinDVD3 ver2.3) and the PC returns to normal.
    I restart WinDVD and carry on watching until next time it hangs.
    Any ideas.
    I have closed all running apps before starting so only systray and explorer are running and the system is running at 93%.


    Celeron 900 running 1011mhz
    Asus P3V4x M/b
    192mb ram
    Cardex GE Force2 MX 32mb graphics card
    Soundblaster Live Value
    Asus DVD-E616 drive
    WinDVD 2.3
    WIN98SE
    Last edited by 1GKar; 17 Jun 2002, 02:42 PM.
  • Enchanter
    Old member
    • Feb 2002
    • 5417

    #2
    Bring down your overclocking to stock speed. Update your video driver and DirectX version, if necessary.

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    • 1GKar
      Junior Member
      Junior Member
      • May 2002
      • 45

      #3
      Thanks Enchanter,

      I will try running CPU at default speed. I have the latest reference drivers for the G card and DirectX 8.1.
      Will see how it goes. :thumbsup:

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      • 1GKar
        Junior Member
        Junior Member
        • May 2002
        • 45

        #4
        No, I don't think that's it.
        Since I inadvertently installed the PC Friendly player that the A Perfect Storm DVD prompted (I tried cancelling the install only to find my Win DVD would not operate) there has been a problem with my default player.
        I uninstalled the PC Friendly and that did not help. WinDVD now freezes just seconds after initialising the first movie companies promo.
        I have searched the registry for any residual software traces without luck.
        I hate companies that insinuate you use their software
        Any ideas. Looks like another OS reinstall!!!!!

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