Video Lockup

[Scott]

When i play any movie that uses media player, the video freezes but the audio
continues for around 4 seconds then my entire computer locks and i am forced
to hard reboot. i have XP home, latest video card drivers and direct X.
specs
AMD athalon 3600
gig of DDR ram
ATI 9800

this started 2 days ago. I have installed no program since this. System
restore does not help even when i restore far behind the day it started. I
have up to date AVG anti virus, spy bot resident shield sygate personal
firewall and ad aware....This copy of windows is probably 4 weeks old. its
very new. Any advice? because i have no desire to waste yet another 3 hours
of my life reinstalling XP.
Thank you for your time.

 

[Andrew E.]

First open system properties,advanced,performance,page file,change button,
set to:"let system manage" from the custom setting its in,click set
2X,close out,
a restart pc should be prompted..Also,open event viewer to get OS details
when
the pc locked up.