Hmm so I've been having some problems with my computer recently (ironically the day after the warranty expired)

Long story short + $$$ later everything's fine...except after a day i have problems watching any type of video. No matter the player, Quicktime, Windows Media, VLC, etc. whenever video is played they slow down my computer to a crawl and only play audio. I disabled video acceleration in WMPlayer, just tinkering around, that helped with how slow my computer would go but it still wouldn't display the video.

Right before all this started happening I formated my hard drive and immediately put antivirus protection on...scan brings up nothing so I doubt it's a virus...yet.

Help plz? I wanna enjoy my brand new ipod video haha

system: amd athlon processor
emachines
nvidea geforce4 MX video cardWhat happened requiring the reinstall? Did you reinstall with the eMachines restore CD? What has been loaded on the machine since or did it do this IMMEDIATELY after the format? How much RAM? What version of Windows? What service pack?

What are you using for virus/spyware protection?Ok...well previously (before the reformat) my computer would freak out if anything larger than a 512mb mp3 player was hooked up to it's usb drive, and would instantly shut down, (it would still shut down with everything else just about 5 minutes later) GIVING me an error caused by aluria software. I hadn't had aluria security installed on the machine for months. So I reformatted the HARDDRIVE to try and fix whatever was wrong so i could use my ipod. Yes i used the emachines restore cd (that was a pain in the *censored* as well, the first time i try to use the dvd burner on this machine it breaks, when I'm trying to copy all my music to a dvd writable i had, so it was a 1/30 chance it would read the restore disk)

And it didn't do this immediately after format, about a day afterwards.

I'm using avast! security, with 512mb ram. Windows xp service pack 2, with all the current updates downloaded.Does your Device Manager show a clean bill of health?  What driver does it show for your display adapter?  Try running DXDIAG and run the tests on the Display tab.  Does it pass all tests?  Well I scanned for hardware CHANGES on my entire computer...nothing came up afterwards so I'm assuming that means it's all good?

oh and an update about my vid card, i'm using a nvideo geforce 6200 the other one was my onboard one apparently.

and what do you mean by my display adapter?

and all tests with dxdiag.exe were succesful Quote

and all tests with dxdiag.exe were succesful

...and what do you mean by my display adapter?