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12-05-2002, 01:10 PM
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System hang under 98se
Everytime I try and run a video file, weither it be an .mpeg or .divx my system hangs.
I have tried using Xing/DivX Player and WMP but under each prog my system freezes when trying to load a video file. I checked my system with Norton utils and found no probs, I reinstalled both WMP and all my DivX Codecs but alas no fix here. Help!!! *please* |
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12-05-2002, 01:17 PM
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The trouble with tribbles... ::huggles the tribble::
What kind of video card and how much system ram and video ram? |
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12-05-2002, 01:33 PM
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Trouble with Tribble's eh? well, your safe, there is no grain here.
TNT2 Ultra 32MB AGP, 256MB SDRAM, PIII 500Mhz |
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12-05-2002, 05:37 PM
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Sorry hon, got called into a meeting and I really wanted to think about this one for a bit. My first instinct is system resource issue. That's still a possibility. Does your system use some kind of IRQ steering allowing it to share between devices? Is this one shared?
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12-05-2002, 06:00 PM
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My AGP card is using IRQ 10, System info also shows IRQ 10 as the IRQ holder for PCI steering.
Other than that, nope  I dont understand the problem, If I try and run a video file my PC stops completly and i have to reboot. |
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12-05-2002, 06:05 PM
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Can you manually change it to another IRQ? Is any other device showing as using IRQ 10?
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12-05-2002, 06:15 PM
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No other device is using IRQ 10, and I cant change it to another IRQ.
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12-05-2002, 06:18 PM
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It must be the card though, because I went to 'Adjust Display Properties/Settings/Advanced/Infomation' and it hanged up.
The drivers are installed corectly,and the card is in properly as well. |
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12-06-2002, 11:45 PM
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A late reply here -
Do you get any error messages, or just a freeze? Have you been experiencing any other playback issues, or system misbehavior? Did the playback work fine until just recently (such as after adding a new video codec?) - some streaming audio/video codecs are incompatible with some players. Here's a few links to past posts with video playback trouble: http://forum.pcmech.com/showthread.p...threadid=48189 http://forum.pcmech.com/showthread.p...threadid=45814 Are you using an Nvidia reference driver - or ? Just in case anything unusual is up with devices, you can boot into Safe Mode, and check Device Manager from there - if you have any unusual devices under video, or oddities in the IDE area = check 'em out & post what you find. Did you install/uninstall anything interesting lately? If it's been a while since you've run a Registry Cleaner, you could try one: in case anything is a messy leftover and causing trouble. RegClean 4.1 was the last revision of Microsofts own Registry cleaner, and it's a free download. Instructions are in the ReadMe.txt file after you unzip it (it self-extracts). Simple program, with nice results. And it never hurts to scan for viruses. Best of luck . . . Gary [p.s. -just re-read your 1st post, and noticed you have Norton Utilities - so I imagine your Registry is tuned plenty. Just out of curiousity, what happens if you try having just one video player installed?] Last edited by GaryRouth; 12-06-2002 at 11:49 PM. |
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12-07-2002, 09:21 AM
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I use a small prog called jv16pt that is great for cleaning my registry.
Also the problem fixed itself, even though I had to reboot my system everytime it hung, I rebooted anyway and when windows tried to load by desktop it gave me a vxd error and made me reboot again, but I haven't fixed anything and it all works again. I must have the only version of 98se that fixes itself, or a ghost in my machine :-) |
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12-07-2002, 02:37 PM
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[if you have Norton Utilitilities, you probably have the Norton Ghost in your machine
 ]Well, glad it's working now. Strange, though. The vxd errors and the hanging when viewing info in the video driver seems to indicate device trouble. Why it's intermittent is the interesting part. Let us know if it pops up again. . . . Gary |
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