Everytime I try to play a video file, Errors occur, and Media Players shut off

[P Ross]

Hmm...for some unknown reason, the CORE TEMP IS GRAYED OUT AND SAYS N/A

Help...

[Broni]

OK. Let's try something else.
Get VLC Player: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/, and see, if you can play videos.

[P Ross]

Ok, any of the videos work when I play them in VLC. Thank you for that.

HOWEVER

They DO NOT WORK IN ANY OTHER MEDIA PLAYER (such as Media Player Classic or Windows Media Player). There's always an error message!

And when I open any files in any WINDOWS EXPLORER FILE, the computer always goes haywire, and there's always a message saying that "Windows Explorer has experienced an error and needs to shut down" etc, etc.

HOWEVER,

When I open any video file (ON VLC) ON THE DESKTOP, there is no problem!


*censored* is happened to my computer???

[Broni]

As for Windows players, it looks like you have some codecs missing.
Get this: http://www.free-codecs.com/download/XP_Codec_Pack.htm

As for Windows Explorer error, go Start>Run, type in:
sfc /scannow
Click OK.
Have Windows CD handy.

[P Ross]

But I don't have any Windows CD's 

What do I do?

[Broni]

You can borrow one.
Sooner, or later everyone needs Windows CD.

[P Ross]

OK, I've done the whole "sfc /scannow".

The whole "please wait while Windows checks" etc, etc, has been finished. It's taken nearly 1.5 hours. BUT NOTHING'S HAPPENED. It just finished! I waited so long for NOTHING???

But on the other hand, there are no more errors whenever I play videos on WMP or Media Player Classic. Thanks to your recommendation of downloading that codec thingy. 

But whenever I click on a video file, there's this pop up asking whether or not I want to use ffdshow or something like that...

[Broni]

there's this pop up asking whether or not I want to use ffdshow or something like that...

Post EXACT message.

[patio]

The whole "please wait while Windows checks" etc, etc, has been finished. It's taken nearly 1.5 hours. BUT NOTHING'S HAPPENED. It just finished! I waited so long for NOTHING???

SFC doesn't tell you what it did...it just does it's job and sneaks away quietly...