windows explorer and media player restarts

[TONY11]

My name is Tony and my problem is that most of the time not every time when i explore a hard disk or try to play a video with win media player it will display a error messege and it will restart. Some videos will play and others will not. This has startred just recently about a month and i cant figure out what might be cauzing it, if anyone can help me please do.
my pc info is:
Computer:
Operating System Microsoft Windows XP Professional
OS Service Pack Service Pack 1
DirectX 4.09.00.0904 (DirectX 9.0c)
Computer Name HOME-7GWBMXG0KA
User Name Tony

Motherboard:
CPU Type Intel Pentium 4 650, 3400 MHz (17 x 200)
Motherboard Name Gigabyte GA-8I945P-G (3 PCI, 2 PCI-E x1, 1 PCI-E x16, 4 DDR2 DIMM, Audio, Gigabit LAN)
Motherboard Chipset Intel Lakeport i945P
System Memory 1024 MB (DDR2-533 DDR2 SDRAM)
BIOS Type Award Modular (05/04/05)
Communication Port Communications Port (COM1)
Communication Port Communications Port (COM2)
Communication Port Printer Port (LPT1)

Display:
Video Adapter GIGABYTE RADEON X700 PRO Secondary (256 MB)
Video Adapter GIGABYTE RADEON X700 PRO (256 MB)
3D Accelerator ATI Radeon X700 Pro (RV410)
Monitor LG Flatron L1780U (Digital) [17" LCD] (1505101394)

Multimedia:
Audio Adapter Intel 82801GB ICH7 - High Definition Audio Controller [A-1]

Storage:
IDE Controller Intel(R) 82801GB Serial ATA Storage Controllers - 27C0
IDE Controller Intel(R) 82801GB Ultra ATA Storage Controllers - 27DF
SCSI/RAID Controller ITE IT8212 ATA RAID Controller
SCSI/RAID Controller NERO IMAGEDRIVE SCSI Controller
Floppy Drive Floppy disk drive
Disk Drive ITE Disk Array 3 SCSI Disk Device (76 GB)
Disk Drive ST3250823AS (250 GB, 7200 RPM, SATA)
Disk Drive WDC WD4000KD-00NAB0 (372 GB, IDE)
Disk Drive WDC WD5000AAKS-00TMA0 (465 GB, IDE)
Optical Drive _NEC DVD_RW ND-3500AG (DVD+R9:4x, DVD+RW:16x/4x, DVD-RW:16x/4x, DVD-ROM:16x, CD:48x/24x/48x DVD+RW/DVD-RW)
Optical Drive DVD-ROM
SMART Hard Disks Status OK

Partitions:
C: (NTFS) 131059 MB (2516 MB free)
D: (NTFS) 381551 MB (213072 MB free)
E: (NTFS) 107412 MB (34672 MB free)
H: (NTFS) 78152 MB (69908 MB free)
J: (NTFS) 476937 MB (396 MB free)
Total Size 1147.6 GB (313.1 GB free)

Input:
Keyboard Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard
Mouse PS/2 Compatible Mouse

Network:
Network Adapter AVM FRITZ!Box Fon (192.168.178.20)
Network Adapter Broadcom NetLink (TM) Gigabit Ethernet
Modem Intracom netMod USB Driver Ver 4.21 (CAPI)
Modem PCI SoftV92 Speakerphone Modem

Peripherals:
Printer HP DeskJet 970Cxi
Printer Microsoft Office Document Image Writer
Printer VentaFax
USB1 Controller Intel 82801GB ICH7 - USB Universal Host Controller [A-1]
USB1 Controller Intel 82801GB ICH7 - USB Universal Host Controller [A-1]
USB1 Controller Intel 82801GB ICH7 - USB Universal Host Controller [A-1]
USB1 Controller Intel 82801GB ICH7 - USB Universal Host Controller [A-1]
USB2 Controller Intel 82801GB ICH7 - Enhanced USB2 Controller [A-1]
USB Device AVM FRITZ!Box Fon #2
USB Device EPSON Perfection1260
USB Device Generic USB Hub
USB Device Generic USB Hub
USB Device Intracom netMod USB Driver Ver 4.21 (CAPI)
USB Device USB Printing Support
Battery MGE UPS SYSTEMS Drivers

Problems & Suggestions:
Problem Disk free space is only 2% on drive C:.
Problem Disk free space is only 0% on drive J:.

 

[Raffaz]

Whats the error message that its displaying?

 

[TONY11]

"wmplayer.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. we are sorry for the inconvenience." This also displays for the explorer.exe. and when i just tried it again it while exploring one of the hard disks it displaye " The instruction a 0x0000000 referenced memory at 0x0000000. The memory could not be "read".
ok to terminate the program
cancel to debug the program.
when i click the ok it restarts the whole explorer program and i lose everything i see at that time. note: i aslo have installed windows vista one one of the drives but hardly use it if this makes any diffrence. Thanks!!

 

[SirMille1]

Nice DSL box!
Network Adapter AVM FRITZ!Box Fon
can't beat high-end Germany goods

With regard to the problem, try and free up some space on your drives.
Then uninstall/reinstall/update Media Player.
Is the machine fully patched/updated?

 

[CompMan]

Update to service pack 2

you only have service pack 1.

 

[TONY11]

sirMille i will update or install and uninstall media player but how do you explain win explorer? I will see about any patches. but will give you an answer in a few days cuz im pretty buzy these days and will do this when i get a chance. As far as service pack 2 CompMan when i did it last time before i formated the drive i had some probs with a couple of games i think and some some msgs on compatability so i'd rather not go there just yet although not ruleing totaly against it. I will install sp2 if all else fails then perhaps format again.

 

[connchri]

OK, it actually sounds like a memory problem. As it is actually having problems reading and writing from memory addresses.

Have you had any brownout or blackouts lately? Lightening storms etc.
Or have you changed your memory configuration lately?

I'd download a memory testing program such as Memtest 86 and give it a good going through. Or try, if you can get a hold of some, other memory.

Let us know how re-installing media player and running a memory test does.

EDIT:

Just a thought, looking through your specs, you seem to have very little space left on your C: drive. I'd recommend you move your swap file to another drive/partition with more free space and also try making space on your c: drive by archiving files elsewhere and uninstalling unused programs. I'd do this regardless of your problem anyway as it gives Windows and that partition a bit more room to breath and could give you a small performance boost. (espcially if that volume is heavily fragmented).

 

[setishock]

You have way too much going on not to take advantage of that setup. Your C: drive should never be that cluttered up. You don't even have enough room left on that drive to defrag. Let me suggest using>>>
CCleaner http://www.filehippo.com/download_ccleaner/
FindJunkFiles http://www.majorgeeks.com/Find_Junk_Files_d1953.html
AdAware www.filehippo.com Get version 1.06
Wise Reg Cleaner http://www.majorgeeks.com/Wise_Registry_Cleaner_d5437.html
Did this problem start when you installed vista on the other drive?
And according to the update site there are no updates for SP1 anymore just for SP2.