Windows Vista Re: Video/DVD playback crashes all the time!

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Re: Video/DVD playback crashes all the time!

These are the latest drivers available from NVidia and the like. Some
even Beta versions.


I have the same problem. My Rig is as follows:

AMD X2 5600+ (2.8ghz)
Biostar TF-7050-M2 (mobo) (Nvidia Driver 14.10)
Zalman CPNS 8000 HSF
OCZ Reaper HPC DDR2 800 2x 1gb EPP4-4-4-15
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 500gb Sata II HDD
BFG 8800 GT OC2 512mb (Nvidia Driver 169.44)
D-Link Xtreme N DWA-556 PCIE 1x Wifi
WinTV-PVR-150 MCE
Samsung SH-S183L Sata DVD+-RW ODD (F/W SB03)
Apevia X-Qpack 2 Case w/ 500 watt PS
MV220 22" LCD 1680x1050 DVI @60Hz

Windows Vista Ultimate with all updates available, no SP1 candidate
installed though.


So 5-10 minutes into any DVD purchased new or old (like Bourne
Ultimatum) or burned (like a home movie) and any DVD program (ie Vista
MCE, WMP11, Power DVD Ultra, Win DVD 8 Ultra, Nero Ultra, VLC) will
freeze.

Otherwise my DVD rom works fine, installing games burning discs whether
DVD or CD no problems. I want to say it's my Drive but my gut is
telling me this is software. Hardware wouldn't just cut out randomly is
my thinking. It would be much more consistent. And it's not the DVD
programs themselves because playing a mounted ISO DVD file works
flawlessly as well. Which also means the codecs are fine. I'm grasping
at straws people. PLEASE HELP!!!!!


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are the temps on your 8800gt ok, mine gets very warm but no freezes as
yet, try installing an older forceware driver, i am running with 169.25
without problems. are 169.44 beta drivers? can't think of anything else
at the moment, good luck


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temps are fine. I'll try to go back to older nforce driver set, maybe
14.9 or 14.8 and see if that makes a difference.


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So using older drivers didn't work either. I figure the problem is one
of three things:

1. The optical drive itself - this is easiest to test. I just need to
save up to buy a BD player/dvd burner

2. Motherboard

3. The OS.


If anyone has suggestions, or know's if I can put XP onto the machine
dual boot to see if the hardware works please let me know.


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So I forgot to mention I'm running the latest driver for my chipset and
the latest beta driver for my video card. And I got the latest Win
Vista Ultimate updates including sp1 from windows update.

Oh, also, if I mount a DVD image from the HD on a iso magic/alcohol
120/virtual clone drive, play back is flawless. Not sure if that makes
the OS not responsible. Please let me know. If it does than that means
it's one of two things which are relatively easy to fix since I can
RMA/replace them easily.


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