Videos freeze

[FIK]

Since I've been forced to change the hardrive in my laptop, I'm having difficulties playing movies. Everytime I start a clip it freezes after a few seconds. It happens in Realplayer, Mediaplayer and on powerDVD, even on Youtube (wich is totally different)
Can anyone help me ?

[dan the acid man]

did tha graphics drivers get changed at all ?

also, right click on the desktop, click properties, settings, advanced, then troubleshooting make sure the hardware acceleration isn't set too low.

[FIK]

I've checked... It's set to maximum

[dan the acid man]

try changing your graphics drivers then.

also give your hard drive a defrag, see if that sorts anything

[FIK]

Tried every possible setting, I switched of the shared writing and now real and mediaplayer work fine but on youtube it still freezes after a few seconds wich is anoying to say the least.

[MARK ANXIOUS]

it must be the drivers. have you got the most up to date ones from the manufacturer website?

[FIK]

Found the problem ! Apparantly after restarting my laptop when it's been in standby mode, it makes the video's freeze. I think it's to do with a program running in the background. Anyway I'm gonna take it back to the shop to check it out. Thanks for the help anyway guys

[dan the acid man]

cool, glad you've found the problem