Playing media causes my screen to completely fubar and restart computer!

Caporegime
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I have a problem where every time I try and play some media (eg: MPEG) my whole screen immediately goes into a series of vertical lines, very neat and clear and uniform, kind of a greeny yellowy colour, and there is no way of getting the picture back without rebooting.

I am using an X1900 XTX and in all other things (gamine etc) my computer is perfectly fine... it's only playing media that I get this problem.

What is likely the problem and any possible fixes? Is this a codec issue? Graphics card (though unlikely)?
 
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I think Codec, google for the ones you need.

Does it happen whilst watching AVIs, MPEGs, WMV and DVDs ?

Or just Mpegs

Can you try a different graphics card to get it out of the equation ?
 
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