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Hi,
I recently finished building a new comp for the first time and have installed Win 7 64bit. Everytime I try playing a video in fullscreen mode (VLC, Windows Media Player, Youtube) , it hangs and I have to use the reset button to restart my computer.
I have an ATI RADEON 4850 graphics card, 8gb of A-DATA DDR3 RAM and an 850w psu. I am running Win 7 64bit. I have installed the latest drivers for my graphics card and Motherboard.
Thanks!
See if they have any win 7 drivers for the video card.
Maybe Beta.
I downloaded the drivers for Windows 7 64-bit of the AMD website and installed them....
...because I think I may have to get new RAM (everytime I start up it gives me the three beeps, then I get it up and running, turn it on...same thing)
3 Short Beeps : AMI BIOS
Your computer has memory problems. First check video. If video is working, you'll see an error message. If not, you have a parity error in your first 64K of memory. First check your SIMM's. Reseat them and reboot. If this doesn't do it, the memory chips may be bad.
AWARD BIOS
ram problem.
Alright, so here is what I did. First, I tried resetting the CMOS, nothing changed. Next, I tried reseating all the RAM at once. Still the 3 beeps. Finally, I reseated the RAM one stick at a time then booted. Basically, I had to reseat one stick, boot, one stick, boot.
So is it for sure a RAM problem (like incompatibility)? Would this fix my fullscreen issue as well?
Thanks for your help
Sounds like compatability problem as you suggested to me also.
When we mix brands/ what ever generally we get one of 3 things.
1. Will not boot.
2. Get all kinds of weird hair pulling errors.
3. Works just fine.
Check out what crucial has to say about ram for your rig.
www.crucial.com/
Its all one brand though (A-DATA) but they were not mentioned in the tested RAM for my motherboard...prob should have checked. Oh well, its my first time, now I know :)
Thanks, I will check out Crucial
Cheap brands like that can really mess us up
Alright, good to know. I went to the crucial webbsite and found RAM that is guarnteed compatible :D Hopefully that will fix my grpahics prob as well.
Thanks!
A lot of us here use crucial [which is micron's website] ram.
Need less to say there are other good brands also.
So I got some of that Crucial RAM that you reccommeded that is 100% guarnteed to work. It solved the beeping issue (yay!) but alas, the video problem still persists.
Video card is probably overheating, anyway that is a classic example of overheating.
Remove the card, use canned air and clean the dust and junk outof the air passages.
Something like q-tips and 90+% alcohol to clean the fan blades. Reinstall and test.
When I lived in the Seattle area, I had to do a complete computer clean every 3 weeks.
Here, 2 x a year is plenty. :D
I will try right after lunch :) I was also thinking of installing a VM of Ubuntu to see if it was a software or a hardware problem...
I finally got Ubuntu (32 bit) to boot into a live cd and a streaming DivX file loaded and played fine fullscreen.
I tried your suggestion before that and it didnt work :(
Thanks for your help!
Edit: So I tried a streaming the same DivX file in fullscreen mode in Win 7 and it worked! Then I tried a flash video and it froze. So it is a flash issue for sure. I will reinstall flash and report back
I spoke too soon. I tried watching some videos in VLC (not even fullscrenn mode)encoded in h.264 as well as an AVI and it crashed my machine both times
I did some more troubleshooting and have come to the conclusion that it is a hardware problem.
I ran the sample file that comes with Windows Media Player in fullscreen mode, and sure enough, it locked up compleltly. Same with Oblivion, I ran it at Medium settings in Windowed Mode and it locked up as well.
Any ideas?
Getting to about where I would say to heck with it and save what I wanted.
Then do a clean install. But then again, that is just what I would do. :( :(
You think a clean install would fix it? I thought it was more of a hardware issue...Quote:
Originally Posted by Train
Right now I am thinking it just might be a corrupted .dll and rather trying a repair install, I would go the route I listed.
Now after the clean install, should it still be there, I would investigate deeper.
Again, that is just my way.
So, if someone chimes in, please feel free to follow their sugggestion(s).
So I did so more testing, turns out that everything works splendid in Ubuntu 32bit without a hitch.
I will install either Uubntu 64 or Vista 64 and hopefully the problem should go away (hopefully its not a 64bit issue)
I hope not too.
So from what I can see, it seems to be a 64bit issue. I just tried the Ubuntu 32 live cd and everything, and I mean everything, worked well. Streaming DivX and Flash fullscreen (same vids as tested on other OSes) Even my avi from my external hardrive was streaming fine in fullscreen mode.
So, what does this mean? Do I have to remove 4gb of RAM or can I make this work?
Thanks for all your help so far!
Back it down to 2 GB worth of ram and see what happens.
Thinking that there maybe compatability problems between ram sticks.
I should have posted earlier, but I got everything working fine under Ubuntu 64. I am not sure what the issue was, I just installed it again and it worked after installing some plugins and drivers.
Thanks for hanging in there and helping me through this!
You're Welcome!
Thanks for posting back and letting us know.
Shortly after I installed Ubuntu 64, it started happening again, turns out the video card was dead (even though it was new) I got an nVidia card and it runs fine under Win 7 64bit...
Thanks for posting the fix.
Now that old card was right weird!!