Vista - Crash when watching videos

I use 3 screens, one on a nVidia GeForce FX 5200 (PCI) and two on a nVidia
GeForce FX 6600.

I can watch TV in Media Center or watch videos with WMP on my "FX
5200-screen". It works fine except that the card is a PCI-card and the video
is therefore jerky.

If however I watch videos on one of the other two screens (via GeForce FX
6600), the system crashes after 1 minute or so. No bluescreen, no reboot, no
shutdown. Instead it looks like the system shut down, but the power-led
flashes. When that happens, I cannot start the system anymore by pressing
the power button - I need to cut the power and wait for 30s.


How can I find out what happens? A problem with the graphics driver? Any
ideas on how to improve the situation? Is it a build 5456-problem?


There are no entries in the event log after the crash.




That happens since I changed to build 5456. In Beta2 Videos worked perfectly
(Media Center didn't show TV).

"Simon" <icq115337406@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>I use 3 screens, one on a nVidia GeForce FX 5200 (PCI) and two on a nVidia
>GeForce FX 6600.
>
> I can watch TV in Media Center or watch videos with WMP on my "FX
> 5200-screen". It works fine except that the card is a PCI-card and the
> video is therefore jerky.
>
> If however I watch videos on one of the other two screens (via GeForce FX
> 6600), the system crashes after 1 minute or so. No bluescreen, no reboot,
> no shutdown. Instead it looks like the system shut down, but the power-led
> flashes. When that happens, I cannot start the system anymore by pressing
> the power button - I need to cut the power and wait for 30s.
>
>
> How can I find out what happens? A problem with the graphics driver? Any
> ideas on how to improve the situation? Is it a build 5456-problem?
>
>
> There are no entries in the event log after the crash.
>
>
>
>
> That happens since I changed to build 5456. In Beta2 Videos worked
> perfectly (Media Center didn't show TV).

Check (eyeball) the fans on the GPU. My 5200 started acting up under Vista
(Silent Crashes), turned out the fan was failing. I kludged on a better fan
AND wired it to the Motherboard fan connector which has a speed detector.