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flammer
Posted 8/2/2006 7:11 PM (#44511)
Subject: my computer keeps locking up



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Location: Franklin, Ky		ok my computer is locking up when i try to play a movie from the Windows media player 10 and i have tried reinstalling it but every time when i try to play a movie on windows media player 10 eveything locks up my cpu usage goes up too 100% so i do the ctrl + alt + delete thing and under processes i see taskmgr.exe takeing up all of my cpu usage but i can play music fine on windows media player 10 its just the movies

ps. i also did a virus scan, adawere scan and the Spybot - Search & Destroy scan and i did check disk
i used avast home to do the virus scan

PVT. SMITH

Edited by flammer 8/2/2006 7:15 PM
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MTL_killer
Posted 8/2/2006 11:19 PM (#44522 - in reply to #44511)
Subject: RE: my computer keeps locking up


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Hey Flammer... i dont know if it can help you, but you can try version 11 (beta)

http://www.fileratings.com/Review/Windows_Media_Player_11_(Beta)

PS: just in case ,make a restauration point before you install this since its beta

PS2:if you click the address here, the ))) sign after the word Beta is black , dont forget to add it in your address line  

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flammer
Posted 8/3/2006 4:39 PM (#44564 - in reply to #44511)
Subject: RE: my computer keeps locking up



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Location: Franklin, Ky		yea i did try the windows media player 11 but it still locks up when i try to play movies

PVT. SMITH

Edited by flammer 8/3/2006 4:39 PM
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flammer
Posted 8/3/2006 5:18 PM (#44565 - in reply to #44511)
Subject: RE: my computer keeps locking up



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Location: Franklin, Ky		ok i have downloaded all of the players i could think of and its still locking up when i try to play movies
real player, quick time, windows media player 11i think is has somthing to do with the taskmgr.exe and the priority is set to high i try to set it to normal but it stays at high so idk what to do i already formatted it

PVT. SMITH

Edited by flammer 8/3/2006 5:19 PM
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Gray Rider
Posted 8/5/2006 11:48 PM (#44701 - in reply to #44511)
Subject: RE: my computer keeps locking up


This Space for Rent. Inquire Within.

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Location: Grand Prairie, TX		do you play games on that computer? does it lock up then?
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SeeEmilyPlay
Posted 8/6/2006 2:12 AM (#44705 - in reply to #44511)
Subject: RE: my computer keeps locking up



I eat koalas for breakfast

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Location: Austraya		Have your tried updating your video card drivers?
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Rotgut
Posted 8/7/2006 10:29 AM (#44795 - in reply to #44511)
Subject: RE: my computer keeps locking up



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Location: U.S.A.		Please tell us if you're attempting to play these movies from a file on your hard drive, or from a cd/dvd. Your cd/dvd rom could be bad, and can lock up your system when it tries to read the cd/dvd.

Also, have you installed anything lately with the cd anti-copy protection called "Starforce"? It can cause things to happen like you describe.

Edited by |AoD|SiN 8/7/2006 10:50 AM
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MTL_killer
Posted 8/8/2006 11:03 PM (#44888 - in reply to #44511)
Subject: RE: my computer keeps locking up


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Location: Montréal, Canada		Hey Flammer ... just to know, have you try another stick (s) of ram in your comp ? ... 1 of my friends had problems with his comp locking up when watching videos, he had 2 gig of ram, he did a test with 512 ram Kingston, and his prob is gone.
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flammer
Posted 8/9/2006 9:00 PM (#44946 - in reply to #44511)
Subject: RE: my computer keeps locking up



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Location: Franklin, Ky		k i tried to play movies from my comp i have 1GB of ram i got all of the latest drivers

btw flammer is my xfire but my cod name is .HP.PVT. SMITH
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Murphy
Posted 8/10/2006 6:46 AM (#44975 - in reply to #44511)
Subject: RE: my computer keeps locking up



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When you look at processes taskmgr.exe should only use up the cpu cycles for a short time. It is the program that executes when you do 'ctrl alt del' but its use should fall off within 15 seconds of launch. Lockups can be caused by any number of things, but aside from virus and adware problems ram is the most common. Did you purchase the correct speed ram for this CPU, is it a single stick or is it 2 512MB sticks, are you overclocking either the processor or video card, have you altered any of the bios settings, are you running any other programs when this happens?


Edited by Murphy 8/10/2006 6:47 AM
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flammer
Posted 8/12/2006 12:00 AM (#45109 - in reply to #44511)
Subject: RE: my computer keeps locking up



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Location: Franklin, Ky		k guys thinks for helping me i just reformatted my hdd and every thing is working
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SeeEmilyPlay
Posted 8/12/2006 7:46 AM (#45122 - in reply to #44511)
Subject: RE: my computer keeps locking up



I eat koalas for breakfast

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Location: Austraya		aaah good ole Winblows.. can always relay on a rebuild to fix it's shitty bugs.
Damn Pierce, why didn't you suggest this before the rest of us went on crazy technical tangents?
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11111
Posted 8/26/2006 1:20 AM (#46190 - in reply to #44511)
Subject: RE: my computer keeps locking up


You probably should have checked the codecs while you were at it and btw I hate Media player, give this one a try if your wanting all the fancy stuff(deinterlacing, different aspect ratios, surround sound, streaming video, etc). Its bug free to my knowledge to and you dont have to pay a thing for it and you dont have to shell out extra for it to do all the fancy stuff like you do with other players because you always have to get another plugin that costs you more.

Anyways you can check it out at www.videolan.org
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hoyky
Posted 7/24/2010 6:09 AM (#95625 - in reply to #44511)
Subject: RE: my computer keeps locking up


uber n00b

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Use KAspersky to scan and clean your computer. I use it and it's really great, I like a lot cause ti helped so much to keep my computer clean. If you want it you can get it from here: http://www.trustdownload.com/Antivirus-and-Spyware-Cleaners/Antivir...
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