The first thing to do is make sure all your drivers and Windows patches are
up to date. Particularly the VIA chipset 4in1 drivers
http://www.viatech.com/en/index/index.jsp , and the video drivers. In fact
these are the first things I would suspect as causing the problems. Then
make sure you clean up all the mess the crashes left behind. Clean out your
temp directory, and run Scandisk and Defrag.
Rode
The NOSPIN Group
>I'm a new member and I had a question that's bee plaguing me for quite
>some time. Recently I bought a new PC. Duron 950, with an Nvidia2 MX 64
>MB, 256 MB of ram, a 40 Gig Maxtor HD, Soundblaster PCI 128, and a VIA
>K-II motherboard. These specs are to the best of my knowledge. Recently
>I clean installed Windows 98 SE. Downloaded the latest drivers, installed
>all my softeware for my old PC (I.E. Winamp, Morpheus, Audiogalaxy, Nero,
>games, etc.), and downloaded the Windows 98 SE updates. I installed
>versions 7.1, and then 6.4, of Media Player but to no avail. Everytime I
>play something, about half way through, or it could be anytime for that
>matter, I get a Blue screen reporting a fatal error. Rode
>The NOSPIN GroupMost of the time it's an 0D xxxx:xxxxxxxx, sometimes an 0E
>reporting it in VxD VMM or some other such VxD error. I'm not sure what
>this mean, but nothing I have tried works to solve this problem, including
>downloading the VxD fix from Free PC support. I've also tries System
>Secure, Scandisk, Dr. Watson, System File checker, anything. I'm under
>the impression that there must be some way I can play media files with
>ease. Is this common? The other computer in the house is a Dell and the
>Media Player 7.1 on that computer has never exhibited symptoms like
>these. Any help would be far far more than appreciated. If any other
>details are neccessary to solve this, please let me know.
>
>Thanks for anything,
>Frank Lepore.
>
>
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