Need computer help
Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2009 8:46 am
I'll start with saying I know nothing about the insides of these things, so bare with me. I have a Compaq Presario with XP that is about 5 years old. Not the best, and I probably should upgrade, but 99.9% of the time it is fine, and getting a new one squared away is just such a pain in the ass. I have a 250ghz Celeron processor. I have only 760mb RAM. I know that is low but I don't do any gaming.
The problem I'm having is many videos are getting better quality. If I try to play a DivX file 640x480, it plays fine on any player (Windows, Real Player, DivX). A 852x480 DivX file will play fine on Windows Media player, but freezes up on DivX player. A 1280x720 HD DivX file won't play at all on the DivX player. If I try to play it on Windows Media, the screen is black, I get a few seconds of audio, then the computer goes into a safe mode look and I have to reboot the system. Same with a 1280x720 HD MP4 file. BTW the same files play fine on my new laptop.
Any ideas? Not enough RAM? Video card(don't even know what that really means!)?
The problem I'm having is many videos are getting better quality. If I try to play a DivX file 640x480, it plays fine on any player (Windows, Real Player, DivX). A 852x480 DivX file will play fine on Windows Media player, but freezes up on DivX player. A 1280x720 HD DivX file won't play at all on the DivX player. If I try to play it on Windows Media, the screen is black, I get a few seconds of audio, then the computer goes into a safe mode look and I have to reboot the system. Same with a 1280x720 HD MP4 file. BTW the same files play fine on my new laptop.
Any ideas? Not enough RAM? Video card(don't even know what that really means!)?