Vista - Video Distortion, screws up system (with picture)

Hey guys

I've had my Vista going for about 4 weeks now, and have been coming across this problem for a few weeks.

I can be playing a video - divx, mpg, VBO, anything - and all of a sudden it becomes distorted, as shown in the attatchment.

It also distorts the mouse, which I can't screen cap. It doesn't take long after this happens for the machine to freeze up; it muts be reset via reset button, because using Shutdown or Restart from Windows goes to a plain blue screen.

At first I thought it was the codecs, so I removed the K-Lite codec pack and installed a Vista 64 codec pack.

I've done a Memtest and its fine, and the video and CPU temps are all fine. It ONLY happens while playing videos, and then randomly. I can watch a 2 hour movie sometimes with no problem, other time it happens in 15 mins. Sometimes after a reset I can continue on without the issue, other times it crop up again in 5 mins.

I can play games for hours without a single problem, and I'm talking intense games like Crysis, and Age of Conan.

Does anyone have ANY idea?

Hi Admles,

The picture didnt upload correctly...Can you reattach it?

Steven

I just saw the picture the last time I viewed this post- now it is not there....

It looked like a Black / dark themes Fx window full screen with a small video box playing in the top right....

Sorry guys, don't know why it happened, but done as an attatchment instead.

That is the same pic I saw before....

*I* don't know what happened either - did you happen to edit your post and perhaps remove the link?

I'm more concerned about what is causing the videos to do that - it really screws up the system.

The video in question is playing in the top right hand corner; the background is nothing, just a forum I was on at the time.

i see your using media player classic
is this the only player that does this?
what happens if you use windows media player

what it looks like to me is that the video codecs is bugging out for whatever reason

i know a lot of ppl don't like using windows media player or downloading codecs pack so give this one a try The KMPlayer
Downloads info and guidelines on the latest beta. - The KMPlayer's Forums
it plays bluray and HDDVD

I use MPC because it isn't a resource hog at all, works wonderfully well.

I'll give KM a try.

By any chance is your motherboard a 780i?

-HB

Hey Admles,

VLC media player - Overview is another alternative for testing your video, it uses its own codec's to eliminate them from the results.

Steven