Help! OS Freezes when CD/DVD is inserted

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OS Freezes when CD/DVD is inserted about says it all. It doesn't matter which
drive I use or what format the disc is or what programs are running the darn
thing just freezes up and has to be restarted. This happens about 9 out of 10
times I pop in a disc. To add insult to injury it lags on restart for almost
a full 5 minutes. Once I restart I'm ok because the disc is already in it.
I've got all my current updates, firmwares & drivers avaible for my dvd/cd
drives, burning ware, Media Players & XP. I do a full system scan with
Norton's & run live update every night. I have no conflicts or errors in
device manager & the only unsigned drivers are for my web cam. I've done a
search on this problem and it seems alot of people have this same problem but
no one has a soluiton. This was happening before I swapped out my DVD writer
& Video card. Also before I added my MP3 player & Camcorder.
this is what I'm running:
OS: XP Home SP2 (build 2600)
CPU: P4 HT 3.0 GHZ
MOBO: Gigabyte GA-8N-SLI Pro
Video: GeForce 6800 GS
Audio: Realtek ALC850 AC'97 Audio Codec
RAM: 2 GB DDR2
HDD: Maxtor 250 GB IDE
DVD: HP dvd740b (DVD+-RW CDRW w/lightscribe)
DVD: Sony dru1621 (DVD/CDRom)
other things:
DirectX 9.0c
Nero SmartStart Suite (bundled w/HP dvd740b)
NAV 03
Window Media Player 10

 

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Hi,
The following might work for you, it did for me..
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...ac-0ab6-4990-943d-627e6ade9fcb&displaylang=en
Check your decoder, since you use MP10. is it compatable..?
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;888656
May help, or relate..
You may need to update your codecs, see the tool at the link below, may help
to ID them..
http://www.headbands.com/gspot/
These links should supply the codecs you need..
http://www.divxmovies.com/software/
http://ac3filter.sourceforge.net/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codecs
Hope this can help..
j;-j