[Danpascooch]

Hi guys, long time reader, first time poster

I have the ATI radeon HD 2400 pro Display adapter and its worked fine for a couple of years now. But lately I started using the extended desktop feature, my main moniter is hooked up with the standard blue cable, and the new moniter is hooked up with a DVI cable, you see, the new moniter is actually a large LCD that doubles as a moniter, I like using it for watching videos because it is bigger and better looking (I use windows media player for this and watch AVI's) But every so often both screens will go black and the last half second or so of audio will loop, when my computer does this it stops responding to ANYTHING and I have to cut the power. And to clear up a couple of common problems, no I do not mess with display settings while using the extended desktop or watching the videos, and yes I have a full suite of antivirus/spyware software

BTW these videos needed the FFD show Audio & Video decoders to run, so I installed them, This could be any number of problems, including a problem with WMP, but the reason I think its a graphics card issue is because ive never had any problems until I extended my desktop


I googled as many things as I can think of, but all the results are cluttered with people whining "How do I extend a desktop" so you guys are my last hope before I have to *gasp* contact ATI! and we all know that will get me nowhere

Thanks for your time

Additional Information:

Type Model Driver
Graphics card ATI Radeon HD 2400 8.582.0
Operating System Vista Home Basic 32 bit N/A
Processor Intel Core 2 Duo CPU E6550
Audio Controller Realtek High Definition Audio 6.0.1.555


P.S: Even if you cant give me a solution, do you know whats happening? Is this my video card crashing? because knowing what is going wrong would bring me that much closer to fixing it

P.P.S: I can't imagine that this would make a difference, but I am watching the videos from an external plug-and-play hard drive