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    Crashes during 1080p playback on XPS 1645

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by Synthesia, Dec 27, 2009.

  1. Synthesia

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    Hey guys,

    I've been experiencing some crashes lately on my XPS 1645 whilst playing 1080p video (relatively big files: 6-12gb films). Its happening in all media players I have installed which are VLC, Media Player HC Classic, Windows Media Player, etc. During the crash I get a System tray message saying the display driver stopped and then it sometimes restarts. Other times I have to force Shut Down by pressing on the Off button for a few seconds as the system becomes completely unresponsive.

    Any thoughts as to why this could be?
     
    Synthesia, Dec 27, 2009
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