Real Player restarts computer

[PrinceofWands]

Ok, so I'm trying to troubleshoot a friends system. It shuts down whenever trying to play ANY real media...video, audio, etc. It's a 1 day old pristine installation of windows xp. Tried the newest real alternative as well as the full real player. All updates from microsoft and hardware drivers are installed.

All hardware has passed stress tests, including ram.

edit: dxdiag passes all tests, all other players function normally (WM, quicktime, etc). It's just real media.

Any thoughts?

 

[Kinection]

Have you tried Media Player Classic to play the files? I've always had problems with Real Player, enough to just give up on it.

 

[PrinceofWands]

Apparantly it was an unacknowledged bios issue. I flashed the bios with the newer version that supposedly was only to provide Sempron compatibility and POOF, problem solved. Very very odd.