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Ok so the issue is, any webpages calling the embedded windows media player, will not play. I've spent about 8hrs on this, w/ google and etc etc. It's seriously driving me insane. The error occurs in IE, Firefox and Opera. So I believe it is browser independant (clever arent I?) I have tried WMP9, 10, reinstalling a few times, everything except a re-format, which I'd rather avoid. I'm wondering if anyone has any ideas, basically it looks like this http://rjinla.com/misc/iewtf.JPG Any ideas are welcome and thanked.

Thanks for all the tips, buncha stuff to try, stuff to try! just so odd this didnt happened before, now all of a sudden... will keep you guys posted...

I'm trying to reformat my system and reinstall windows (its been strong for 8mos and its random quirkiness and things not working have finally got annoying enough) Now I have made a nice customized boot cd, as well as have my trusty original. I toss the cd in to boot, Press Enter to boot CD.. Blue screen shows up.... STICKS THERE... NO PROGRESS, no grey bar down bottom... first I thought it may be a bad cd of mine, went back to my original cd, and copies of the original, same problem. Definitely didnt have this problem last install, but i've upgraded the bios just incase. Also disabled all onboard hardware not needed to install (like extra sata controller etc) and it's still not helping. It's not locking up either, since I can tap numlock and see it respond, it just sits there in a complete blue screen w/ Windows Setup in upperleft. I know the entire pc is working fine as I am typing this message on it. I've tried about everything I can think of, and I been working on PC's quite a while. (even part of my job) My guess is something of my hardware is causing it to stick like this, just cant think what... if anyone has anyone has any ideas much appreciated.. ive been googling and searching this forum and others with not much result. Thanks