Need some help - any thoughts welcome.

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Warren C. E. Austin

Windows 2000 Professional Build 2195 SP4, Genuine Advantage verified,
with all post-SP4 Updates and Patches installed, and applied, as of late
last evening.

Two days ago, I suffered a major power outage which shut down the
computer entirely. System re-booted as normal, and appeared to be
functioning correctly; but, I have since discovered that I'm no longer
able to play any video-format file whatsoever. Audio-formats continue
to play normally, regardless of the player selected (Windows Media
Player, Winamp, Nero Media Player, Divx Player, whatever); but, when a
video-format file is loaded in the desired player, the player itself
opens as expected, cueing the selected file, but unfortunately the
moment I attempt to play the file, the entire system locks up, leaving
me no recourse but to power-down the machine. Windows Task Manager is
unable to load, with all keyboard and mouse control effectively lost.

I'm flummoxed here. I've re-installed each and every player; the
Codecs, Direct 9.0c; hell's bell's I've resorted to activating an
archived back-up of the Windows Registry (any one of several pre-dating
the power failure), and re-booting; but regardless of what I've done, NO
Video-format file will play without seizing the computer.

Any assistance would be most welcome.

Warren C. E. Austin
Toronto, Canada
 
Warren C. E. Austin said:
Windows 2000 Professional Build 2195 SP4, Genuine Advantage verified,
with all post-SP4 Updates and Patches installed, and applied, as of late
last evening.

Two days ago, I suffered a major power outage which shut down the
computer entirely. System re-booted as normal, and appeared to be
functioning correctly; but,
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Warren,

/run
/cmd
chkdsk /f c:

where [c:] is your OS drive.
Usually such bizarre behavior means you have errors in the file sys.
 
tlviewer said:
Windows 2000 Professional Build 2195 SP4, Genuine Advantage verified,
with all post-SP4 Updates and Patches installed, and applied, as of late
last evening.

Two days ago, I suffered a major power outage which shut down the
computer entirely. System re-booted as normal, and appeared to be
functioning correctly; but,
Click to expand...


Warren,

/run
/cmd
chkdsk /f c:

where [c:] is your OS drive.
Usually such bizarre behavior means you have errors in the file sys.
Click to expand...

Thanks for the reply

Ran CHKDSK /F C: D: E: from boot resulting in its' reporting no problems
found with any of the three drives.

Other thoughts? Could this be a RootKit issue?

Warren C. E. Austin
Toronto, Canada
 
Andrew said:
[won't play video]

Other thoughts?
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Video card drivers?

Andrew
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Sorry about delay in responding; but, I've been off-line re-building my
system for the past couple of days.

I did parallel clean install of W2K and found no issues whatsoever with
either audio- and video-playback, or with the other problem which seemed
manifested itself as a direct result of the power outage, the latter
issue being network connectivity that would only remain live for
approximately 10-minutes before being shut down at the application level
(the router remained valid and active, reporting correctly when ipconfig
was run; but, the system kept returning DNS Not Found errors); this too
now seems to have been rectified by the fresh install. I was able to
import the prior registry, thus restoring all software and personal
settings, and all has apparently returned to normal.

It's looking to me that either a file, or series of files, was, or were,
corrupted by the abrupt power-loss shut-down and then deleted by W2K
when doing its' power-up chkdsk. What troubles me is that when I
attempted a system repair using the copy all files option it didn't seem
to have any effect.

Never-the-less, I do want to thank you all for your kind and prompt
attention to my problem.

Warren C. E. Austin
Toronto, Canada
 
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