an avi file soft-reset's my computer

[jamiecockrill]

dead weird thing has started happening with my computer

I captured a vid off my mini-DV camcorder (some 6.3GB big) and every time i play it (Windows Media Player 10), when it reaches the end it soft resets my computer. I think it also did it once when I just closed media player halfway through, but i'm not entirely sure.

This doesn't seem to happen with any of my other video files, nor any that i have captured in a similar way. It was recorded from a different camera than my usual one, but I captured it to my PC (firewire with Moviemaker) same as all the others.

Dead weird. Any help much appreciated!

Also, the camera used this time apparently doesn't encode datestamps into the stream, which is annoying, so scenealyzer wont clip it, but i don't know if that might've caused something?

Sorry to keep waffling, but the only thing I can think of is that my power supply might be giving up (400W Jeantech thing from PC World) since I have got all 6 USB ports full, 2 Optical drives, 2 HDD's, big CPU Fan, 3 case fans, GFX, extra NIC, Wireless PCI Card, Sound Card and the FDD which is never used.

Anyways, any help much appreciated!

Thanks

Jamie

[TheAnimus]

that is bizzare, the first place i'd look to, is the codec system, as its very easy for codecs to screw up the system.

do you get a blue screen, does event log show anything, do you get a dump ("Send Error Report")?

Try VLC http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

it dosen't use the windows codec system, and therefore might help identify the problem.

[Paul Adams]

If Windows is restarting then I would suspect a graphics or audio driver - do you have a "Save Dump" event in your system event log with any bugcheck code mentioned?

Do you have any minidump*.dmp files in C:\Windows from the times of the restarts?

[jamiecockrill]

i don't seem to have any save dump events as far as i can see. I split the file in half with windows media player and chucked it on an external HDD and everything seems fine now.

very strange,

thanks for all the help!