Playing a DVD movie locks up my computer

[Guest]

No matter what player application I use (WMP, RealPlayer, Quicktime,
Interactual DVD player, VLC Player)... as soon as the DVD begins to be
accessed, the whole desktop locks up. Mouse, keyboard... nothing works and I
have to either hit the master reset button or unplug the machine. The crash
occurs whether I try to play a movie in my DVD-ROM or DVD R/RW drive.

Windows XP Pro
SP2
AMD Athlon XP+ 2800
2.07 GHz, 728 MB of Ram
ATI Radeon 9550 / X1050 Series

I've installed the latest drivers of the video card (7.10) and rolled back
to an older version (7.7). Rolling back got rid of a Direct X error, but did
nothing for DVD play back.

Event Viewer returns this:
Event Type: Error
Event Source: ati2mtag
Event Category: CRT
Event ID: 45062
Date: 10/2/2007
Time: 10:33:21 PM
User: N/A
Computer: RAYCYRXDT
Description:
CRT invalid display type
Data:
0000: 00 00 00 00 01 00 5a 00 ......Z.
0008: 2c 00 00 00 06 b0 00 c0 ,....°.À
0010: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0018: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........

Device Manager says everything is functioning properly (no yellow
exclamation points).

 

[Burgy]

Were you able to ever play them?
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[Guest]

Yes.
I recently did a complete format and re-install of Windows. Prior to that,
I was able to play DVD's just fine.

 

[Guest]

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Yes.
I recently did a complete format and re-install of Windows. Prior to that,
I was able to play DVD's just fine.