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I am running Win2K with all SP's and updates. System is 1.0g Intel P3 with 512 ram. While watching live Streaming Video on Window Media Player 9, system locks up solid. Key board is inactive-must hard boot. I have checked for all file associations (to my best ability) and all updates and Codec's for Media Player. Also, monitor will intermitently go black, like I reset it, for two-three sec's and come back on. No error mesg in Event Viewer. Video Card is NVida 64meg card. The drivers should be up to date. Any input as to trouble shooting would be appreciated.

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— given a solid lock (keyboard dead) with the monitor briefly going black and no Event Viewer messages, this reads more like a driver/hardware hang than a registry issue. 's thought of isolating the player/codec is useful for ruling out renderer problems; 's registry-clean suggestion is unlikely to fix a hard freeze and can make troubleshooting harder.

Try these targeted, evidence-driven checks in order:

  • Reduce video/graphics acceleration first. Lower or turn off hardware acceleration in Display Properties -> Settings -> Advanced -> Troubleshoot, and set video acceleration in the media player's performance options to the minimum. If the freeze disappears, it’s a driver/hardware-acceleration problem.

  • Clean reinstall the graphics driver. Uninstall the current display driver, reboot to Safe Mode if necessary, and install a known-good legacy or WHQL driver from NVIDIA (NVIDIA driver downloads). Try both the latest legacy build and one older release if problems persist.

  • Check hardware: run Memtest86 (https://www.memtest86.com/) to rule out RAM faults, and inspect CPU/GPU temperatures (open the case, clean dust, verify fans). A flaky PSU or overheating GPU can produce exactly this symptom.

  • Do a minimal clean boot to eliminate third-party codecs/filters: disable non-Microsoft services/startup items (msconfig) and test streaming. If stable, re-enable items one group at a time to find the culprit.

  • Capture more data if it still locks: run Process Explorer to watch resource usage (Process Explorer). If you can reproduce, use a safe crash-dump tool from Sysinternals to get a dump for analysis (handle with care) (NotMyFault).

Avoid registry cleaners as a first step. Focus on drivers, power/thermal health, and memory — those are the most common causes of hard freezes during video playback on older systems.

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Have you tried to play around with your performance settings within Windows media player or upgrading to the latest Media Player? Try using a different player also like DivX or Quicktime to see if that has any different effect. you could always try to re-install media player itself.

Hope that might throw some input.

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needn't uninstall. Try registry clean. Before I encountered a similar problem, my computer running so slow, I used registry cleaner find 450 errors. Clean up registry can help you get high speed.

http://www.pcerrorsfixer.com

This site have some registry cleaners reviews, free scan. I bought one, very useful and easy to use.

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