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PC freezes when playing videos

Discussion in 'Techno-Magic' started by Fabius Maximus, Nov 14, 2007.

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    Alright, maybe I can get any help here.

    Two days ago, I bought a new graphics card, a ASUS GeForce 7600GS AGP. The thing works like a charm... in games. When I want to play any video in any media player (even VLC), the computer freezes. I barely can start the Task Manager to close the player. If I turn down Hardware Acceleration in the Troubleshooting register card for the graphics card, videos play but stutter.

    With my old graphics card, a GeForce 5500FX, everything worked fine.

    I searched the web for answers. I seems the problem is known (and only happens with NVIDIA cards). There were either no answers, or the answers aren't working. I re-installed graphics and mainboard drivers already, the codecs as well. Nothing works. Official ASUS support tells me I should test the card in another PC, which is not really an option since the problem is rather widespread.

    Any ideas?
     
    Fabius Maximus, Nov 14, 2007
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    Geeze...

    If you reinstalled all the drivers and codecs... then I don't know what to tell you. IIRC, ASUS can't just tell you to try the card in a different machine and leave it at that. If I were you, I'd make them RMA it. :rolling:
     
    Kitrax, Nov 15, 2007
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    Thanks anyway.

    I just tried something and it seems I can play smaller Quicktime-Movies with the KLCodec Media Player without problems now.

    I tried an AVI or WMV in the browser-embedded WMP earlier. The sound played all right, but the picture was very screwy. Maybe it's a codec problem after all?

    EDIT: Alright. Even HD MOV-files work now. This is getting strange.

    EDIT 2: AVIs work too. Only WMV-files don't. What the heck?
     
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    Fabius Maximus, Nov 15, 2007
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    If I were you, I'd try using a free tool called the Codec Installer. It just might be able to help. :rolling:
     
    Kitrax, Nov 16, 2007
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    Naah, not necessary. It works now, even HD WMVs. Obviously, the computer had to get accustomed to the new hardware first... :nuts:
     
    Fabius Maximus, Nov 16, 2007
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