Playing video locks up your system

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Theres a problem with chipsets that only use the XDDM drivers.. and not WDDM This seems to be happening mostly to intel 915 chipsets and earlier.



Video drivers
Systems which use XDDM drivers may completely stop responding in certain scenarios. The computer will not respond to CTRL+ALT+DELETE and you will have to cycle the power to restart the computer, with the attendant risk of loss of unsaved data.

Some activities which have been demonstrated to trigger this issue include, but are not limited to:

Using Winsat.exe or using the Rate and improve your computer’s performance tool.


Changing multi-monitor configurations


DVD or other video playback


To avoid this, do not use XDDM drivers, but find an appropriate WDDM driver instead. If your video chipset does not have a WDDM driver (such as the Intel 915), use a VGA driver or an GPU that supports WDDM drivers.

If this issue occurs at setup, either avoid unattended setup or uninstall the XDDM driver and use a VGA driver until setup is complete.

However there are a few threads here where people are facing similar problems and are trying to find workarounds.


POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS ARE:

Possible solution1: Install Vista and use drivermax (freeware) to extract these 855GME driver. Then install Windows7 and install this driver with drivermax again. Works

Possible solution 2: Install the latest XP driver from Intel, 14.19.50.
-Boot in safe mode, extract the driver and install then manual with the device manager. Do a new hardware search. Reboot --> F8 ---> choose disable driver signatur. Disable the second yellow graphic driver. works

Possible solution 3:Right click the desktop, choose SCREEN RESOLUTION.
Look for "ADVANCED SETTINGS"
Choose the troubleshooting tab
Click "CHANGE SETTINGS"
Move the bar left untill Direct 3D is disabled

Special thanks to Sanguinus and the other guys I've been talking with over on technet who are trying find a work around.