Computer turns off playing video?
Computer turns off playing video?
Here's a weird one, whenever I play a video now my computer shuts off. Doesnt matter what viewer it is, the program loads and the computer reboots before anything even begins playing. The computer is not overheating, and I dont believe it is a power issue since I can encode videos fine. What the hell could be wrong here? I'm stumped.
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240Knightrider
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If it shuts off and stays off. Your overheating.
If it reboots, its more than likely a Driver issue.
Check your drivers here: http://www.Driveragent.com
In the meantime go to your my computer icon, right click, click properties, go the the advanced tab. Then click Settings under STARTUP and RECOVERY. Unclick Automatically restart.
Next time it happens you should get a blue screen, post it up..the error keep a piece of paper and pen handy.
copy down all the numbers thatt look like 0x000000000
If it reboots, its more than likely a Driver issue.
Check your drivers here: http://www.Driveragent.com
In the meantime go to your my computer icon, right click, click properties, go the the advanced tab. Then click Settings under STARTUP and RECOVERY. Unclick Automatically restart.
Next time it happens you should get a blue screen, post it up..the error keep a piece of paper and pen handy.
copy down all the numbers thatt look like 0x000000000
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240Knightrider
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Not yet. That driveragent site is great for telling me what drivers are missing or outdated, but I have to sign up to be able to use the direct download feature. I'm still locating the correct drivers that I'm missing, but I dont think this is the problem (although by all means I should have all the correct drivers.)
Unfortunately I dont get a blue screen with an error after turning off the restart feature, I dont know whats up with that. I just remembered that this started happening after a random restart that gave me a message saying that a new processor was installed. I think my CPU may be dying (it is almost 5 years old after all, overclocked for 4 of them) but it should be exhibiting other issues if it were on its way out.
Do you have any other ideas Ken? At first I was thinking this could possibly be a registry issue, but now I doubt that's the case as well. I will continue working on it in the meantime. Thanks for your help so far.
Unfortunately I dont get a blue screen with an error after turning off the restart feature, I dont know whats up with that. I just remembered that this started happening after a random restart that gave me a message saying that a new processor was installed. I think my CPU may be dying (it is almost 5 years old after all, overclocked for 4 of them) but it should be exhibiting other issues if it were on its way out.
Do you have any other ideas Ken? At first I was thinking this could possibly be a registry issue, but now I doubt that's the case as well. I will continue working on it in the meantime. Thanks for your help so far.
Ok, I tried installing new codecs and that didnt work. I just finished installing a new driver for my video card and that fixed it. It's weird how **** just stops working for absolutely no reason, with no changes done to it. Whatever, its fixed now so I'm happy. I should have tried swapping drivers earlier but it honestly sounded like a registry or codec problem.
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