HD Content on my PC causes BSOD's - Blu-ray Forum

jumpyg1258 · 03-21-2008, 03:27 PM

The method of testing I tried today, was using AnyDVD I ripped a Blu-Ray disc directly to my hard drive and tried playing it thru WMP 11. It played fine for a while but as usual, it eventually hard crashed my PC. It was using the codec from PowerDVD so thats not totally eliminated from the causes but it did eliminate the disk drives from being at fault.

glogrono · 03-21-2008, 07:54 PM

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Originally Posted by jumpyg1258

The method of testing I tried today, was using AnyDVD I ripped a Blu-Ray disc directly to my hard drive and tried playing it thru WMP 11. It played fine for a while but as usual, it eventually hard crashed my PC. It was using the codec from PowerDVD so thats not totally eliminated from the causes but it did eliminate the disk drives from being at fault.

I have a quad core computer with 3gb ram, nvidia 8800GTS. When playing a ripped movie from my main hard drive, most of the time the video stutters pretty badly. It doesn't crash, but it's unwatchable. If I play it from my external hard drive, it plays perfect. I think you're asking too much of your hard drive. It's running windows, it's running all the programs including powerdvd, it might be what's heppening to your system. Not sure, but it's something to look at.

jumpyg1258 · 03-25-2008, 04:00 PM

The only reason why I tried watching from the HD was cause just playing the disc from the disc drive itself wasnt working so I wanted to see if it was the drive at fault.

maxmcleod · 03-26-2008, 08:49 PM

do you have another video card you can test with this setup? something not from ati?
if not I suggest buying a nvidia 8500gt from newegg or tigerdirect
its only like 40-60 bucks, throw it in, load the newest drivers and try it then...
if it works, then you know its your card, if not then use rma and get your 40-60 bucks back...

Obiit · 03-26-2008, 10:42 PM

Actually both are correct jumpyg1258! It took about 6 revisions of the catalyst drivers before my ATI HD2600 was stable and worked correctly and PowerDVD is know for it's lack of playability.

Are you using Vista or XP? XP for me has been more stable than Vista and the 32 bit ones at that.

Daft question - any reports on the Razer Sound card causing problems? perhaps worth running on the motherboards sound card as a test?

supersix4 · 03-26-2008, 10:44 PM

please dont discuss that here the site could get in trouble, thanks

maxmcleod · 03-27-2008, 11:47 AM

what are you talking about? you have 30 days to return a product, its not like its illegal, I'm just trying to help him figure out what he can do. Its a cheap card, that is proven to work, so if it bombs out you know its not your card.

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03-21-2008, 03:27 PM	#1
jumpyg1258 Junior Member Member since:Mar 2008	The method of testing I tried today, was using AnyDVD I ripped a Blu-Ray disc directly to my hard drive and tried playing it thru WMP 11. It played fine for a while but as usual, it eventually hard crashed my PC. It was using the codec from PowerDVD so thats not totally eliminated from the causes but it did eliminate the disk drives from being at fault.

03-25-2008, 04:00 PM	#3
jumpyg1258 Junior Member Member since:Mar 2008	The only reason why I tried watching from the HD was cause just playing the disc from the disc drive itself wasnt working so I wanted to see if it was the drive at fault.

03-26-2008, 08:49 PM	#4
maxmcleod Active Member Member since:Mar 2008 Blu-ray collection:147 Blu-ray reviews:4 Trading Score:4	do you have another video card you can test with this setup? something not from ati? if not I suggest buying a nvidia 8500gt from newegg or tigerdirect its only like 40-60 bucks, throw it in, load the newest drivers and try it then... if it works, then you know its your card, if not then use rma and get your 40-60 bucks back...

03-26-2008, 10:42 PM	#5
Obiit Active Member Member since:Nov 2007 Location:Oldham, UK Home Theater Gallery:2 Blu-ray reviews:1	Actually both are correct jumpyg1258! It took about 6 revisions of the catalyst drivers before my ATI HD2600 was stable and worked correctly and PowerDVD is know for it's lack of playability. Are you using Vista or XP? XP for me has been more stable than Vista and the 32 bit ones at that. Daft question - any reports on the Razer Sound card causing problems? perhaps worth running on the motherboards sound card as a test?

03-26-2008, 10:44 PM	#6
supersix4 Blu-ray Archduke Top contributor Member since:Mar 2007 Blu-ray collection:572 Blu-ray reviews: 53 Trading Score:3	please dont discuss that here the site could get in trouble, thanks

03-27-2008, 11:47 AM	#7
maxmcleod Active Member Member since:Mar 2008 Blu-ray collection:147 Blu-ray reviews:4 Trading Score:4	what are you talking about? you have 30 days to return a product, its not like its illegal, I'm just trying to help him figure out what he can do. Its a cheap card, that is proven to work, so if it bombs out you know its not your card.

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