Vista - try DVD and system crashes????

HELP!! everything works in any media player i've downloaded and tried
EXCEPT DVD movies. i can play dvd rom games, play cd's, watch the
pre-installed videos that come with the players.......just not actual dvd
movies. i'll pop one in and maybe the submenus will appear, but then it
blue screens with a message of "a thread tried to release a resource it did
not own". i have the dvd regions correct, a higher grade computer i built,
and all my drivers are updated. i've googled the hell out of this with no
luck. they're normal, real movies too- not burned or anything. please help
if you can. thanks!

chris

- get the BSOD code. if you cant get it because it restarts the do this:
click control panel>system>advanced system settings> click the setting button under startup and recovery> now remove the check from automatic restart and click ok.
- also try to delete the driver of the DVD drive in the device manager, and restart.
- try watching a movie with another application
- reinstall the video card driver

I am getting the same problem. I put in a store bought dvd into the dvd drive
and pc crashes and goes to blue screen for about 5 seconds.

- get the goddamn BSOD code, i already told you how to get it.
- i am pretty sure it has to do with the video card drivers. or maybe a service of windows.
- disable the aero too

"Red Reg" wrote:
I too have searched for a solution to this problem, but mine is only with CD
or DVD rom. I keep losing my AOL system info, AOL have sent me a new D, and I
have just tried it, and got another blue screen.......

I guess no one out there has an answer

Blue screens should generally be driver based issues. You should be able to
view a little additional data in the Problem Reports and Solutions Center
which may have more data for you there... ?

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"Cyprusbob" <Cyprusbob@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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You can no longer access the CD drive or the DVD drive, or you receive an error message after you remove a CD recording program or a DVD recording program in Windows XP: "error code 31"

This worked for this problem...I couldnt even use virtual drives same error message