Video/DVD playback crashes all the time!

I am at a loss here. I cannot play DVD without it crashing after about 5-10
minutes. It does not matter if I use PowerDVD, WinDVD or whatever. Same
thing happens. Vista does not crash, but the DVD software just freezes up.
Is this a Geforce 8800 driver problem or what?

These are the latest drivers available from NVidia and the like. Som
even Beta versions

I have the same problem. My Rig is as follows

AMD X2 5600+ (2.8ghz
Biostar TF-7050-M2 (mobo) (Nvidia Driver 14.10
Zalman CPNS 8000 HS
OCZ Reaper HPC DDR2 800 2x 1gb EPP4-4-4-1
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 500gb Sata II HD
BFG 8800 GT OC2 512mb (Nvidia Driver 169.44
D-Link Xtreme N DWA-556 PCIE 1x Wif
WinTV-PVR-150 MC
Samsung SH-S183L Sata DVD+-RW ODD (F/W SB03
Apevia X-Qpack 2 Case w/ 500 watt P
MV220 22" LCD 1680x1050 DVI @60H

Windows Vista Ultimate with all updates available, no SP1 candidat
installed though

So 5-10 minutes into any DVD purchased new or old (like Bourn
Ultimatum) or burned (like a home movie) and any DVD program (ie Vist
MCE, WMP11, Power DVD Ultra, Win DVD 8 Ultra, Nero Ultra, VLC) wil
freeze

Otherwise my DVD rom works fine, installing games burning discs whethe
DVD or CD no problems. I want to say it's my Drive but my gut i
telling me this is software. Hardware wouldn't just cut out randomly i
my thinking. It would be much more consistent. And it's not the DV
programs themselves because playing a mounted ISO DVD file work
flawlessly as well. Which also means the codecs are fine. I'm graspin
at straws people. PLEASE HELP!!!!

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Rajesh_
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are the temps on your 8800gt ok, mine gets very warm but no freezes as
yet, try installing an older forceware driver, i am running with 169.25
without problems. are 169.44 beta drivers? can't think of anything else
at the moment, good luck


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temps are fine. I'll try to go back to older nforce driver set, maybe
14.9 or 14.8 and see if that makes a difference.


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Rajesh_K
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So using older drivers didn't work either. I figure the problem is one
of three things:

1. The optical drive itself - this is easiest to test. I just need to
save up to buy a BD player/dvd burner

2. Motherboard

3. The OS.


If anyone has suggestions, or know's if I can put XP onto the machine
dual boot to see if the hardware works please let me know.


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Rajesh_K
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So I forgot to mention I'm running the latest driver for my chipset and
the latest beta driver for my video card. And I got the latest Win
Vista Ultimate updates including sp1 from windows update.

Oh, also, if I mount a DVD image from the HD on a iso magic/alcohol
120/virtual clone drive, play back is flawless. Not sure if that makes
the OS not responsible. Please let me know. If it does than that means
it's one of two things which are relatively easy to fix since I can
RMA/replace them easily.


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