Issues with hardware accelerated MPEG-2 Decoders

[mh47g]

Hello all... I wasn't sure whether I should put this here or in software, but here goes.

Anytime I use Media Center with an MPEG-2 decoder that has hardware acceleration support, like PureVideo or PowerDVD, my computer plays the video for a second and the monitors go black (like it's going to sleep). I hear sound for another few seconds before the computer restarts.

Any ideas? Processor is an AMD Opteron 165 (with dual core optimization driver installed), asus nforce4 mobo, etc...

Thanks,
Bill

 

[Tristor]

Sounds like bad drivers or another similar software issue. Also, I'd highly recommend using PowerDVD's software with the PowerDVD codec (unless you use something nicer like MPC) as WMP/MCE has some known issues dealing with the PowerDVD codec (but nothing like the problem you are describing).