Those are symptoms of a hardware or driver failure, as it looks like you're
guessing.
Reinstalling DirectX or DirectShow shouldn't touch the driver - focus on
that first.
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See
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"Paul" <Paul@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Just did a clean install of Windows Vista Ultimate x64 on my system.
> Everything works great until I try to play video files. If I view a video
> in
> WMP 11, Winamp, or any other Directshow based player, I get a complete
> system
> freeze. The video will typically play for a little bit, then the system
> completely freezes (no blue screen, crash report, or error in the system
> log)
> . I cannot trigger the crash with any particular video file, so I don't
> think it's a codec issue. I have noticed that about 7 out of 10 times I
> can
> trigger the freeze by entering or exiting full screen mode. However, the I
> can't seem to consistently re-create the freeze. For example, playing
> video
> "a" may cause a freeze on open with the first attempt, while
> entering/leaving
> full screen on the second attempt, and 3 minuets into the video it on the
> third attempt.
>
> I installed VLC player, and all video files work fine with it. Knowing
> that
> VLC media player is not Directshow based, I'm lead to believe that the
> problem lies with Direct show. Running DXDIAG comes up with no errors
> other
> than my audio driver not being WHQL ceertified.
>
> I'm kind of new to this kind of troubleshooting (i'm more experienced with
> malware recovery), and I'm not exactly sure where to go from here. Any
> links
> to sites with more information regarding troubleshooting complete freezes
> like this would be highly appreciated. Is there some sort of program I can
> run that will log everything that goes on in the system up till the point
> it
> freezes? Is there some sort of way to re-install Directshow / DirectX ?
>
> Thanks alot for reading, and thanks in advance for any help!!
>
> System info:
>
> AMD Athalon 64 x2 4800+
> 2047 MB RAM
> Nvidia GeForce 7800 GS
> MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum M/B (nforce 3 ultra chipset)
> Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate x64 w/ all updates installed