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Guest
Problem:
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When I try to play a video e.g. bear.wmv (delivered with Vista) with Windows
Media Player the whole pc freezes after after 1,5 seconds!
System:
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Vista 32bit Ultimate
AMD Athlon 4400+ X2
2x 1 GB Corsair geheugen
Asus A8N-SLI (Nvidia 15.00 drivers latest version)
Gforce 6600 GT ultra video card (Nvidia 100.65 drivers latest version)
2x Hauppauge 150MCE
Description:
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During the install of Vista the installation stopped and didn't go further
on the point it tested the system to gather the performance-index
infromation. After a couple of hours I rebooted the system, and every thing
worked alright, except I couldn't play any video files in Windows Media
Player. The mouse cursor will not move anymore, ctrl+alt+del doesn't give a
response, display of my logitech G15 keyboard doesn't react anymore, the CPU
gives 100% cpu usage (strange for a dual core cpu) when starting a video and
after the first few video-frames the whole system freezes
Things tried but all generated the same problem:
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- Play video files (not recorded by Media Center) within Media Center videos
- Tried it after a clean install, with no other drivers or codecs installed
then the default ones. When this didn't work I installed the latest nForce
and Gforce drivers from the Nvidia website, when that didn't work I installed
the bèta Gforce drivers from the Nvidia website, and that didn't work either.
- Tried to turn off Areo, single monitor, 16 bit colors
- Tried using VLC-player which has embedded codecs and the system als
freezed, same as with Windows Media Player, so it's not a codec or Windows
Media problem, and this pointed me a little bit more in the direction of a
Geforce-driver problem!
- I played on Valve's Steam the game RedOrchestra Ostfront, this game
performed more stable, and with higher video settings and performance then I
could have ever done in WindowsXP SP2 before, I'm really happy about this!
- Because during the installation the Performance-index crashed, there isn't
a performance-index for my system, so when I restart it, every thing goes
alright till "playing from windows media" (it's a translation, in Dutch it
says "afspelen van windows media bepalen") then the system is really doing
calculations and the progression bar stops for a few second and then you hear
the harddisk loading information and the progression bar goes a inch further
and the begins heavy recalculations under the same test still saying "playing
from windows media" and then after 1.5 seconds the system freezes, the
mous-cursor won't move any more, and even after a night the system didn't
awake. In my own opinion and the information from the Microsoft technet site,
I guess that at this point it's running a video in memory to calculate it's
performance the same that happens with WMP and VLC and then crashes.
I've posted my problem at various websites, searched the whole internet, saw
some people having the same problem, but no solutions.
Second question not the highest priority:
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- There is still one device in my device manager (something on the
motherboard) that is called a unknown device, any idea what that can be, or
what driver is needed for it?
I really hope you can help me, I'm very desperate!
Thanks in advance!
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When I try to play a video e.g. bear.wmv (delivered with Vista) with Windows
Media Player the whole pc freezes after after 1,5 seconds!
System:
---------
Vista 32bit Ultimate
AMD Athlon 4400+ X2
2x 1 GB Corsair geheugen
Asus A8N-SLI (Nvidia 15.00 drivers latest version)
Gforce 6600 GT ultra video card (Nvidia 100.65 drivers latest version)
2x Hauppauge 150MCE
Description:
--------------
During the install of Vista the installation stopped and didn't go further
on the point it tested the system to gather the performance-index
infromation. After a couple of hours I rebooted the system, and every thing
worked alright, except I couldn't play any video files in Windows Media
Player. The mouse cursor will not move anymore, ctrl+alt+del doesn't give a
response, display of my logitech G15 keyboard doesn't react anymore, the CPU
gives 100% cpu usage (strange for a dual core cpu) when starting a video and
after the first few video-frames the whole system freezes
Things tried but all generated the same problem:
--------------------------------------------------------
- Play video files (not recorded by Media Center) within Media Center videos
- Tried it after a clean install, with no other drivers or codecs installed
then the default ones. When this didn't work I installed the latest nForce
and Gforce drivers from the Nvidia website, when that didn't work I installed
the bèta Gforce drivers from the Nvidia website, and that didn't work either.
- Tried to turn off Areo, single monitor, 16 bit colors
- Tried using VLC-player which has embedded codecs and the system als
freezed, same as with Windows Media Player, so it's not a codec or Windows
Media problem, and this pointed me a little bit more in the direction of a
Geforce-driver problem!
- I played on Valve's Steam the game RedOrchestra Ostfront, this game
performed more stable, and with higher video settings and performance then I
could have ever done in WindowsXP SP2 before, I'm really happy about this!
- Because during the installation the Performance-index crashed, there isn't
a performance-index for my system, so when I restart it, every thing goes
alright till "playing from windows media" (it's a translation, in Dutch it
says "afspelen van windows media bepalen") then the system is really doing
calculations and the progression bar stops for a few second and then you hear
the harddisk loading information and the progression bar goes a inch further
and the begins heavy recalculations under the same test still saying "playing
from windows media" and then after 1.5 seconds the system freezes, the
mous-cursor won't move any more, and even after a night the system didn't
awake. In my own opinion and the information from the Microsoft technet site,
I guess that at this point it's running a video in memory to calculate it's
performance the same that happens with WMP and VLC and then crashes.
I've posted my problem at various websites, searched the whole internet, saw
some people having the same problem, but no solutions.
Second question not the highest priority:
-----------------------------------------------
- There is still one device in my device manager (something on the
motherboard) that is called a unknown device, any idea what that can be, or
what driver is needed for it?
I really hope you can help me, I'm very desperate!
Thanks in advance!