System: WinXPhome/ Pent4 1.6/ 256mb SDRAM/80gb HD. Medion OEM windows installation.
A recent return to factory settings on the PC has left Win Media Player 9 unable to play an MPEG file. It tries to play then crashes to a BSOD and the computer restarts. Error reading codec comes up just before the crash. Have ensured that Media player 9 is the latest and is updated, also all relevant Win updates are in. Have downloaded DIVX, WinMedia analyzer, and also the codecs for Media 8 and 9. Tried everything and still no joy.
The player will play AVI files and a DVD disk.
On occasion a blue screen comes up, but not all the time saying that the BIOS should be disabled for caching or shadowing. Have had a look around and can't find any solution there.
Another message is that 'driver IRQL is not less or equal' and an error message as follows:
***stop:0X000000DI(0X00000000,0X00000009,0X00000000,0X000000 00)
As stated, this is only occasional and mostly the computer just crashes.
Whilst probably irrelevant the installation of Norton Anti Virus seemed to coincide with the discovery of the blasterwormE virus and this was removed. Full system scan and the removal tool does not find any evidence of the virus.
Help please?
