Windows Media Player Crashing my system

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I have recently reinstalled Windows XP Pro onto my computer. I am now having
problems playing any kind of movies, be it DVD or any other format. The
problem I am having is that every time I attempt to start a movie, my
computer starts hanging, and if I let it go long enough, the screen starts to
black out intermittently until the computer eventually crashes. When I
reboot, I get the "Windows has recovered from a serious error" to which I
always click "send report". It immediately brings me to a webpage, and says
it was caused by a blue screen error report, but does not give me any useful
information.

I am currently running the NVIDIA Pure Video decoder, which I was using
before my reinstall of Windows. I had no problems before formatting and
reinstalling. I have tried uninstalling Windows Media Player 11 and
reinstalling, and I have tried uninstalling the Pure Video decoder software
and again, reinstalling. I have not changed any of my hardware between the
format and reinstallation of Windows.

I am using Windows XP Pro with SP2. I have downloaded and installed every
Windows Update, including the optional updates. I cannot find anything in
the knowledge base, but it is always possible that I missed it in there.

I would appreciate any help if anyone has encountered this incident before,
or if anyone knows who to go to about this problem. Thank you, in advance.

Randall Doran
 
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Guest

Just thought I should add:

I can listen to CD's (both in my CD-ROM and DVD-ROM drives, and stream
music, via Urge). Everything except playing DVDs works with my Media Player
 

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