rainhero18

It's my 2nd post and already I'm begging for help, lol.
But all jokes aside, please help me. The problem is that when I had my last computer I was using windows 98. It had a very bad virus on It but youtube played perfectly.

But now that I have a computer I got from the pawn It has xp on It and youtube keeps breaking up while the videos are playing. By that I mean, I let them load and then when It's fully loaded I press play right? But It will start off playing and freeze around 0:10 and start again at 0:13 and then pause again and the audio will jilt and then freeze at 0:15 and start again at 0:18. I don't know what's causing It to play that way and I've downloaded adobe flash player, WM10 and I had WM11, I have real player, and quicktime, what's wrong with It?

4u111

hi there,
do you have this problem for any video you watch over the internet, or it just happens on you tube? and does that happen when you play any saved video on your computer?
I dont know much about this problem, but try to reinstall flashplayer again, or something else(but dont try it now till someone expert confirms that) try to update your video driver, or probably your video card is installed properly, because i recently updated my video card, and all my video turned to laggy picture, then i fixed it by reinstalling the update.(thats my experience).

hope someone expert be with you soon.

good luck.

rainhero18

Well yes, It happens to a lot of the saved videos I have but when I watch other streaming videos online they play fine but youtube won't. I just installed the flash player a few days ago but I could reinstall It. Thanks for your help too!

4u111

so in this case if you are having problems with playing saved video files on your pc, then it might be video card problem. but first could you please tell us whats your system specification?(including video card type and ram?)

thanx

rainhero18

Do you mean this?:

Microsoft Windows XP
Home EditionVersion 2002
Service Pack 2

Dell Computer Corporation
Dell DIMENSION DIM2350
Intel (R)
Celeron(R) CPU 1.70GHz
1.69 GHz, 256 MB of Ram

I don't know how to find out what type of video card It is.

4u111

to check out how much video ram you have; go to start-run-and type dxdiag
then click on display, then under device you will see the name of the video card you have and below you have approx total memeory: something????? mb
so give us the name and the approx total memeory(VRAM) please?

rainhero18

I didn't see anything that said VRAM so I print-screened both pages and you can see if you see It. Sorry about this, lol.

Lydokane

If I may weigh in on this I would like to point out that your drivers are a little out of date. You may want to download the updated driver and install. Also, 256 MB system RAM isn't much with Windows XP. You could try to run msconfig and disable everything in the startup tab.

You mention that this PC was purchased from a pawn shop. Were all traces of the previous owner removed? If the pawn shop just bought it and put it out for sale; the previous owner could have had a virus/adware/malware on it. It probably wouldn't hurt to run a malware scan.

Good luck.

Lydokane

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rainhero18

OKay, where would I find the download to update the drivers? That might help out a lot.

Umm....I don't think so, there are still some stuff in here when I got It that had the previous owners documents and name and things on It. How would I go about finding It all and removing It?

Thank you very much for your help Lydokane!

Lydokane

Let's see if a driver update fixes the problem first. You should probably create a Restore Point first then go here:

http://www.intel.com/support/graphic...phics+845main&

Click on the link: 'Download the Intel Extreme Graphics Driver' and follow the cues. When you get to the download page choose the first one. It is an executable file that should install itself. Try your video and post back with your results.

Lydokane

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rainhero18

I downloaded It but they still don't play right.

Lydokane

Click Start | Run and type msconfig in the Run dialog.

When the msconfig window opens click the startup tab and then Disable all the programs in the list. Click OK

You will be prompted to restart the PC. After you restart, try your videos again.

Lydokane

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rainhero18

Okay, I tried them and they play much better. It's still a little laggy/choppy but It basically played perfectly.

Lydokane

It would seem that the previous owner had left quite a bit on that PC. I find it alarming that an owner would pawn a PC that might have personal information on it (i.e. credit cards, SSN, username/passwords). From here I would advise you to download Adaware SE and Spybot Search and Destroy.

http://www.lavasoftusa.com/products/...e_personal.php

And

http://www.spybot.info/en/index.html

Install them and run their scans (best if done in Safe Mode). You should also uninstall any programs on that PC that you don't use. Not only will it free up hard drive space but it might speed up the PC just a little. Once you run the scans and remove unwanted programs it would also be good to defrag the disk.

Could you please run a dxdiag again and post the screeshots like you did earlier in this thread. I would like to double check the driver versions to make sure the driver was updated correctly.

Lydokane

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rainhero18

Here are those screen shots you wanted:




I was running adaware se personal like you told me and It had found 4 problems so far but I accidently restarted my computer applying a shared folder or something like that, lol. I will start It again now. ^_^

Lydokane

It appears that your driver updated successfully. Hopefully I will be able to straighten out the youtube thing.

Lydokane

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rainhero18

I hope so too, I'd like to be able to watch my downloaded videos and videos at youtube again.

Thank you for helping me update my drivers!

Lydokane

How did your malware scans turn out?

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rainhero18

It came up with 6 critical objects and then I removed them.

rainhero18