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Old 12-23-2008, 05:44 AM   #2
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It actually sounds like your machine may be overheating. You tax the video card & processor when playing videos which causes them to put off a lot of heat. If it's not dissipated efficiently, you can get symptoms like you describe, lockups and/or bluescreens.

One way to tell for sure is to try to play a video off of the hard drive for the same duration & see if the symptoms repeat themselves. If so, could be a bad fan or bad heat sink connection.

If NOT (assuming you're still under warranty) have them swap out the DVD player. That's about a 5 minute operation.
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