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Originally posted by Buzzkill
[Mods help me out here--hit the wrong damn button again and started a new thread. Crap.]
I do think that it has something to do with drivers and DLLs, but what I can't figure out exactly. I un & reinstalled MM to see if that did the trick, and it worked for a while. Thing is, if MM hangs up, Media Player won't work either (hangs) and neither will Nero, so there is some common resource all the programs use that MM is hogging for some reason. I updated my sound board drivers but that hasn't solved the problem. I went through the alert logs on the system and see that things are amiss, but the information provided in the alerts is a bit too obscure for me to figure out. I think I am just going to have to take stuff off and start adding it back until I can isolate the problem.
I haven't tried reverting to the prior XP state (not sure if I could do that anyway since I did a clean XP install on a new drive when I got the computer together). I'll give that a shot though.
I have generally been happy with MM (when it works), although don't get me started on the DRM scheme. That one really chaps my ass.
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Your computer automatically creates system restore points. You should be able to go back in time to when you first installed XP if you want.
Sounds to me like you might have corrupted or conflicting codec files. If you have mutliple versions of the same codec installed, you can get conflicts. You can even get conflicts with different codecs that handle different file types.
I would recommend uninstalling your codecs or updating them. I think windows has a new codec pack for Windows Media Player 9/10. You could start by installing that. Link:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/win...cdownload.aspx
Have you installed any third-party codecs that you're aware of?
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