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PC Reboots when watching DVD

Everytime I watch a DVD, in middle of watching my DVD my PC will reboot.
I am running windows 98 with 32Mb.
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Is it always in the middle? (Approximatly)  It could be at the point where the movie is switching from one layer on the disk to the next layer, and your DVD player is older and may be having trouble with this.  If you have free space on your hard drive you could try ripping the DVD to the computer and play the movie from there.  This would help eliminate if the dvd drive is the problem.

DVD Decriptor can be downloaded from www.doom9.org
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The DVD is brand new. How do i use this memory tester? Why would memory fail only when playing a DVD?
Download the program and create a bootable floppy disk.  After booting with it, let it run for a few hours through the cycles - if it fails, you have bad RAM.  The reason memory may fail when playing a DVD is because software decoders put a heavy load on cpus that are old.  If you have a recent cpu > 1GHz, this may not apply, but then you may have an overheating problem.
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