Crash when watching videos

[StormyxxClouds]

Hi there, I'll try to make this is as simple as possible for ya.

New computer build, everything works great, except when watching videos.

I full screen the video and after a minute or two, or sometimes randomly at all on rare cases, my screen turns totally distorted, and you can't make out anything there, and you hear a loud buzzing noise. And as for the video audio, it slows down drastically, way out of whack. The voices i hear are going in like x16 slow-mo and in really deep voices. Creeps me out. Never happens unless in fullscreen mode. I've tried ctrl+alt+del, but nothing seems to get me outta that full screen and outta the video. Unresponsive I guess. I assume it's either that or the whole computer is in this state of slowmotion and requires a very long time to respond to that command.

I'm not sure if this exactly helps, but I'm using a HDTV as my external monitor with a HDMI cable that came with it.

I'm using a ATI 5830, fully up to date as far as i know, windows tells me that at least.

If it's anything with my BIOS I'd love if someone could explain very carefully how to assess that, it terrifies me a bit.

I'm using 4 gigs of ram, running at 1600 which is supposed to be stock speed, I don't believe my motherboard is overclocked to run it at that speed either. I did have to fiddle with a setting for it to work properly though. Had to adjust the ram timings and set something to N2 or other.

One other thing, funny story, I had this problem about 3 months ago? After a friend told me to adjust my ram timings like i stated previously the problem went away, until now that is. I've ran a full system scan with 2 anti-virus programs and both have come up with nothing, so I don't think that's the case either.

ANY help at all is much appreciated, thanks.

 

[zigzag3143]

Hi there, I'll try to make this is as simple as possible for ya.

New computer build, everything works great, except when watching videos.

I full screen the video and after a minute or two, or sometimes randomly at all on rare cases, my screen turns totally distorted, and you can't make out anything there, and you hear a loud buzzing noise. And as for the video audio, it slows down drastically, way out of whack. The voices i hear are going in like x16 slow-mo and in really deep voices. Creeps me out. Never happens unless in fullscreen mode. I've tried ctrl+alt+del, but nothing seems to get me outta that full screen and outta the video. Unresponsive I guess. I assume it's either that or the whole computer is in this state of slowmotion and requires a very long time to respond to that command.

I'm not sure if this exactly helps, but I'm using a HDTV as my external monitor with a HDMI cable that came with it.

I'm using a ATI 5830, fully up to date as far as i know, windows tells me that at least.

If it's anything with my BIOS I'd love if someone could explain very carefully how to assess that, it terrifies me a bit.

I'm using 4 gigs of ram, running at 1600 which is supposed to be stock speed, I don't believe my motherboard is overclocked to run it at that speed either. I did have to fiddle with a setting for it to work properly though. Had to adjust the ram timings and set something to N2 or other.

One other thing, funny story, I had this problem about 3 months ago? After a friend told me to adjust my ram timings like i stated previously the problem went away, until now that is. I've ran a full system scan with 2 anti-virus programs and both have come up with nothing, so I don't think that's the case either.

ANY help at all is much appreciated, thanks.

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[StormyxxClouds]

I don't wanna make your job any harder than it has to be, but I followed all those steps to enable the minidump but I can't locate them still in C:/Windows anywhere. I ensured that the filepath was %SystemRoot%Minidump. It was already like that when I came there.

 

[Maguscreed]

minidumps are only created when the entire system crashes what you are describing though sounds far more like an audio driver issue to me than anything else.

edit perhaps we can create some minidumps intentionally?
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/101379-driver-verifier-enable-disable.html

make sure you read that whole thing as it's possible for it to leave your system a little screwy sometimes, we're actually trying to create a crash here though just to create a minidump to look at.

 

[StormyxxClouds]

I've selected everything not my by Microsoft, watched a show on here, no crash yet. Funny how these things work, eh? You really think the screen would get all screwy if it's the audio though? Idk why it's randomyl picking up this habit again out of nowhere.

Edit - Just crashed, again. Watching a video and it locked up and the screen got frozen/blurry, slowed audio. It'd be awesome if it didn't do it when someone screams and it's 4AM. Creepin' me out.