Here is what happened...
I got a new case for my comp, an ASUS Vento, and I moved all my hardware into that case. Upon rebooting everything was fine. Until I tried to watch an mpg video file. What happens is I hear the audio from the file, but no video. Then WMP locks up (at the time I was using version 9) and when I ctrl-alt-delete to end program, the audio stutters three times and then my computer locks up completely and i have to hard reboot.
I tried installing version 10 of wmp and that didnt work. So I needed to reinstall windows anyways, I got a Hauppage tuner card and wanted Media Center edition installed. So I did that, fresh install, and upon trying to open a video file it still does the SAME THING! I thought it was a software problem, but now I'm suspecting it may be hardware. I can open video files in Media Center (which is strange) but opening them in WMP10 is not working. Anyone have any ideas?
Here's a quick summary of my machine:
Asus A7N8X Mobo
Barton 2800+ set at 166 and 12.5x in the bios
1 gb micron ram (2 x 512)
Radeon 9800 pro agp running 2 lcd monitors (1 off dvi, 1 off vga)
Turtle Beach santa cruz
Realtek pci 10/100 ethernet card
Promise IDE ata66 card (nothing running on it at the moment)
I got a new case for my comp, an ASUS Vento, and I moved all my hardware into that case. Upon rebooting everything was fine. Until I tried to watch an mpg video file. What happens is I hear the audio from the file, but no video. Then WMP locks up (at the time I was using version 9) and when I ctrl-alt-delete to end program, the audio stutters three times and then my computer locks up completely and i have to hard reboot.
I tried installing version 10 of wmp and that didnt work. So I needed to reinstall windows anyways, I got a Hauppage tuner card and wanted Media Center edition installed. So I did that, fresh install, and upon trying to open a video file it still does the SAME THING! I thought it was a software problem, but now I'm suspecting it may be hardware. I can open video files in Media Center (which is strange) but opening them in WMP10 is not working. Anyone have any ideas?
Here's a quick summary of my machine:
Asus A7N8X Mobo
Barton 2800+ set at 166 and 12.5x in the bios
1 gb micron ram (2 x 512)
Radeon 9800 pro agp running 2 lcd monitors (1 off dvi, 1 off vga)
Turtle Beach santa cruz
Realtek pci 10/100 ethernet card
Promise IDE ata66 card (nothing running on it at the moment)