Problems with video playback

[cyanosis]

When watching movies (mpeg1 or divx), I frequently get a blue screen, with no way of recovering after that.

I'm running win98se on a tbird 850 (was 750), MSI K7T Pro2a, 256MB generic ram, Asus v7700.

The machine is perfectly stable for everything else; it is under constant cpu load thanks to the rc5 client, and never crashes, so my problems are not overclocking or heat related.

The problem occurred with Media Player 6.4, and installing 7.0 did not help. Reinstalling the latest version of directx did not help. Players other than Media Player do the same thing. It is not limited to the divx codec, I get blue screens during mpeg1 playback as well. The problem is not with the files being played back.

Is there anyone out there with the same problem?

 

[Nih]

you have to reinstall the divx codec

 

[foreignr0x]

i'm having a pretty similar problem..but just now my damn system rebooted during a download and while skipping thru a mp3 with winamp. i tried putting in the new divx codec (even though the majority of reboots i've had are with avi's) but it didn't do anything and my system rebooted within 3 seconds of me watching an mpeg video i recently had the avi video problem with. i don't get why the hell this is happening (why can't computers cooperate?!?! arrrgh).

 

[foreignr0x]

*bump*
come on can't anyone help?

 

[cyanosis]

All I can tell you is what I've already tried.

I tried getting different versions of mciqtz.drv and quartz.vxd, because DXdiag reported that they were beta versions. This did not help.

I've only had one reboot during video playback, and that was related to my chip being unable to run at 900 (I had one other reboot, completely spontaneous, I wasn't even at the machine... that prompted me to go back to 850).

Again, the only thing I see in common is that we both have MSI boards. A friend of mine who built the exact same system as me has the same problem, but to a much larger degree.

I have never had problems with mp3 playback or gaming (although I don't do much of the latter).

 

[Nih]

do you have any problems gaming?
could this be video driver related then?

 

[cyanosis]

Tried latest official detonator drivers from the Nvidia site, and the custom ones on the Asus V7700 CD.

No difference.