Repetitive crashing.

[DJ111S]

My PC runs fine for the majority of the time but anytime I play or stream any video it crashes. It seems worse in media player than realplayer but watching anything will result in a crash >50% of the time. It's doing my head in!!

Any ideas/help gladly received please.

[Zad]

I would say update your video card drivers.

Any chance of telling us what your machine spec is so we have a clue to go on?

[DJ111S]

Yep.

It's an AMD 1800 CPU, 256MB RAM, Geforce 4 video card and I'm running Windows XP.

[Trooper2]

Microsoft says that 256MB of RAM is the minimum amount for XP, which means with 256MB you can turn the PC on and thats about it, as mentioned above I would update your video drivers if not current but I would also invest in more RAM.

How much memory does your Gforce video card have, 64MB, 128MB, 256MB?

>> Edited by Trooper2 on Sunday 29th January 00:16

[aldi]

Trooper2 said:

Microsoft says that 256MB of RAM is the minimum amount for XP, which means with 256MB you can turn the PC on and thats about it, as mentioned above I would update your video drivers if not current but I would also invest in more RAM. How much memory does your Gforce video card have, 64MB, 128MB, 256MB? >> Edited by Trooper2 on Sunday 29th January 00:16

128 is the minimum www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/evaluation/sysreqs.mspx allthough of course more is allways better.

[annodomini2]

Zad said:

I would say update your video card drivers. Any chance of telling us what your machine spec is so we have a clue to go on?

Possibly the codec being used to stream the video, try something like the k-lite codec pack here:

K-lite Codecs They're free btw!

[Trooper2]

aldi said:

128 is the minimum www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/evaluation/sysreqs.mspx allthough of course more is allways better.

I stand corrected and must be getting old, has anyone seen my memory?

[DJ111S]

Trooper2 said:

Microsoft says that 256MB of RAM is the minimum amount for XP, which means with 256MB you can turn the PC on and thats about it, as mentioned above I would update your video drivers if not current but I would also invest in more RAM. How much memory does your Gforce video card have, 64MB, 128MB, 256MB? >> Edited by Trooper2 on Sunday 29th January 00:16

Gforce card has only 64MB. I've updated the drivers and it still does it. Used to work fine but can't play games etc on it now.

[annodomini2]

You checked the system temps, cpu, gfx card etc?

[DJ111S]

Sys temp 22
CPU 45

[DJ111S]

bump

[annodomini2]

Sounds like a driver/codec corrupt somewhere, you tried updating the motherboard drivers? Sound card?

All else fails, backup reinstall.