OS Name Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
Version 5.0.2195 Service Pack 4 Build 2195
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name D-3VM8X31
System Manufacturer Dell Computer Corporation
System Model OptiPlex GX270
System Type X86-based PC
Processor x86 Family 15 Model 2 Stepping 9 GenuineIntel ~2393 Mhz
BIOS Version Phoenix ROM BIOS PLUS Version 1.10 A03
Windows Directory C:\WINNT
System Directory C:\WINNT\system32
Boot Device \Device\Harddisk0\Partition1
Locale United States
User Name CORP-NT\jevans2
Time Zone Eastern Standard Time
Total Physical Memory 522,228 KB
Available Physical Memory 192,684 KB
Total Virtual Memory 1,797,044 KB
Available Virtual Memory 1,177,780 KB
Page File Space 1,274,816 KB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys
It sounds like the way WinXP and 2k handle so-called blue-screen errors, by default. To find out for sure, turn off automatic rebooting: Start Menu > Settings > Control Panel > System. Click the Advanced Tab, click the Settings button under Startup and Recovery, and uncheck the Restart Automatically box. Chances are the program you use to view videos is casing problems. This won’t fix that, but it will give you some information that might help in doing so.
Does the video by any chance have sound to it? Does the problem not occur with silent videos? Windows NT has issues with multimedia drivers, especially sound. There might be a driver conflct somewhere. Don’t feel bad; my NT 4.0 PC blue-screens every time I try to play a MIDI (which makes sending e-cards a blast :rolleyes: ) apparently they didn’t fix all the problems when they developed Win 2000 from NT.
Wish I could be of more help. FTR, the problem on my PC did not go away with a motherboard/CPU/memory upgrade, so we can probably rule those out as contributors to the problem.
Have you tried various video formats (avi, mpg, mov, etcetera) and if so, does the problem affect all of them?