Help with computer freezing while watching movies

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XpediencY

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My computer freezes when I try to watch a movie or just a video file. It does not freeze when I play games that are demanding though. What happens is the picture freezes after a few minutes, the sound continues, and then everything locks up forcing me to reboot. This happens when I'm watching just a regular avi file as well as HD content. It is extremely frequent now, and did not happen until 3 days ago (no change in hardware or software). I just reformatted my computer, but the problem still persists. Anyone know what part of the hardware is stressed when viewing videos? Any suggestions would be great.

This has happened before with my 9800gx2, but ever since i swapped it out with the GTX280 it stopped, but now it's returned.

What I've tried:
Putting my Q6600 at stock
Trying other video drivers
reformat
memtest -> passed

computer doesn't fail on prime95 either
Seems to just be something that doesn't even stress my computer at all.

My OS is Vista 64bit

edit: It is not a memory issue as I have swapped my memory with another 2x1GB and it still froze.
 
What video card drivers are you using? Are you playing this through WMP?
 
yes, it's WMP

I figured out the problem. My GTX 280 is the problem heh. Switched it out with the 3870, I had no problems. When I put the GTX 280 back in, my movies begin to freeze again.
 
XpediencY said:
yes, it's WMP

I figured out the problem. My GTX 280 is the problem heh. Switched it out with the 3870, I had no problems. When I put the GTX 280 back in, my movies begin to freeze again.
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I would try a different set of drivers before you discount the card. Did you send the card back?
 
I haven't began to yet, I've tried 3 different drivers, but I never touched my drivers when the problem occured. It happened on the same driver I've been using fine for a month.
 
What doesn't make sense is that it's freezing in my videos and not in my games... What part of the component is stressed when watching a movie?
 
Basically the way the driver is coded would probably load a different set of instructions when you play a game vs when watch a movie.

I am not sure how codecs act with Windows Vista as I do not have Vista installed.

Have you tried putting the GTX in a different computer?
 
I have not tried that, but I will in a little bit, but 6 months without problems just baffles me.
 
XpediencY said:
I have not tried that, but I will in a little bit, but 6 months without problems just baffles me.
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If it makes you feel any better I once had issues with my 7800 card in the sig. Basically it would blue screen when I would alt tab out of WoW. Worked fine on every benchmark and every other game. Turned out that when I disabled dual core optimizations it worked fine.

A few months later a new driver came out and all was well again.
 
The hardware video overlay is separate from the 3D stuff on a graphics card.

I had an ATI X800XL that I abused with various voltmods and it broke making everything fine (games, windows etc) except for video playback which was corrupted and all a shade of green.

So yeah, sounds like your graphics card is FUBAR'd and you need to RMA it.
 
spine said:
The hardware video overlay is separate from the 3D stuff on a graphics card.

I had an ATI X800XL that I abused with various voltmods and it broke making everything fine (games, windows etc) except for video playback which was corrupted and all a shade of green.

So yeah, sounds like your graphics card is FUBAR'd and you need to RMA it.
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all i needed to know heh. what im worried about is that evga won't test this part or it's not reproducible and they send my card back.
 
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