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play DVD and system blue screens
HELP!! everything works in any media player i've downloaded and tried
EXCEPT DVD movies. i can play dvd rom games, play cd's, watch the pre-installed videos that come with the players.......just not actual dvd movies. i'll pop one in and maybe the submenus will appear, but then it blue screens with a message of "a thread tried to release a resource it did not own". i have the dvd regions correct, a higher grade computer i built, and all my drivers are updated. i've googled the hell out of this with no luck. they're normal, real movies too- not burned or anything. please help if you can. thanks! chris |
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play DVD and system blue screens
Did you check your system maker for updates? Drivers and BIOS?
http://support.microsoft.com/search/...de=s&cat=False MS KB Site - Vista - Media Player 11 - 38 hits http://support.microsoft.com/search/...de=s&cat=False Media Player 11 DVD - 17 hits "Chris Williamson" wrote in message ... HELP!! everything works in any media player i've downloaded and tried EXCEPT DVD movies. i can play dvd rom games, play cd's, watch the pre-installed videos that come with the players.......just not actual dvd movies. i'll pop one in and maybe the submenus will appear, but then it blue screens with a message of "a thread tried to release a resource it did not own". i have the dvd regions correct, a higher grade computer i built, and all my drivers are updated. i've googled the hell out of this with no luck. they're normal, real movies too- not burned or anything. please help if you can. thanks! chris |
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play DVD and system blue screens
Also try a 3rd party DVD player software.
"Chris Williamson" wrote in message ... HELP!! everything works in any media player i've downloaded and tried EXCEPT DVD movies. i can play dvd rom games, play cd's, watch the pre-installed videos that come with the players.......just not actual dvd movies. i'll pop one in and maybe the submenus will appear, but then it blue screens with a message of "a thread tried to release a resource it did not own". i have the dvd regions correct, a higher grade computer i built, and all my drivers are updated. i've googled the hell out of this with no luck. they're normal, real movies too- not burned or anything. please help if you can. thanks! chris |
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play DVD and system blue screens
Chris,
Vista records errors in a report. Review the report: Start Maintenance Problem Reports and Solutions. Peruse the report for errors contained therein and focus of any steps recommended to resolve the problem. The report may disclose a Stop error, which has this type format: 0x0000000X. Or it may have a number like Code 218 (just example), by which you can search for an indication of what this problem is. Oftentimes, these type BSODs are related to memory (RAM) issues of some type. The error reference to "resource" implies RAM resources. But that's just an assumption. Post back on what you find. -- freddy "Chris Williamson" wrote: HELP!! everything works in any media player i've downloaded and tried EXCEPT DVD movies. i can play dvd rom games, play cd's, watch the pre-installed videos that come with the players.......just not actual dvd movies. i'll pop one in and maybe the submenus will appear, but then it blue screens with a message of "a thread tried to release a resource it did not own". i have the dvd regions correct, a higher grade computer i built, and all my drivers are updated. i've googled the hell out of this with no luck. they're normal, real movies too- not burned or anything. please help if you can. thanks! chris |
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play DVD and system blue screens
Chris, I have the same problem.
I have two DVD drives, one reg 1 and 1 reg 2, sometimes when i put the wrong reg in the wrong drive the system would blue screen and crash. Now every DVD crashes the system. Movies I own I copied to a hard drive tell me the movies are for a region I cannot view. I have a dual boot system, and no problems with the same movies on the drive booth systems use, in the XP system. Vista is a program, that was released before its time. With the various drivers that were necessary to enjoy the system, are long in coming, such as Creative. One day this will be a good system, after I reinstall it and there is a service pac released. There is no way to repair windows programs, IE: Internet Explorer, Windows Media Player. Your stuck. Can't repair or remove as in other operating systems. This must be addressed. Right now, Windows XP is far advanced in ease of operation, and the time that Vista uses for backup, which is worthless on a dual boot system. "Chris Williamson" wrote: HELP!! everything works in any media player i've downloaded and tried EXCEPT DVD movies. i can play dvd rom games, play cd's, watch the pre-installed videos that come with the players.......just not actual dvd movies. i'll pop one in and maybe the submenus will appear, but then it blue screens with a message of "a thread tried to release a resource it did not own". i have the dvd regions correct, a higher grade computer i built, and all my drivers are updated. i've googled the hell out of this with no luck. they're normal, real movies too- not burned or anything. please help if you can. thanks! chris |