Media Player...doesn't - Get Skype I/O error

Recently put together a PC for a friend at work based on XFX GeForce8200 Motherboard, Phenon 9500 Quad, XFX 9600 GSO Video, 8 gigs memory and Vista x64 (Home Premium).

System worked fine, all the current updates before it left work. The only thing I did not test was the playback of a DVD. Now, a few weeks later, when he puts any DVD movie in the drive (Lite-On Sata DVD Burner w/ lightscribe) it will not auto-start movie.

If he manually goes to Media Player and selects the DVD drive, he is getting a skype I/O error and the system locks up. Skype was loaded after the build by the owner. He reports that the skype did work.

I've done some searching for this error with no luck...not sure what to think, especially since I don't have the system here to troubleshoot at this time (he is hoping that I get lucky enough to find some help with this and he can fix it at home). :huh:

I would really appreciate any suggestions as this one is "way new" to me...

Thanks so much...

My Best Always,

Michael

P.S. Please forgive if this is in the wrong place...

I got my hands on the system today and thought I'd share what I found, just to share and possibly save someone else some time if they see something similar.

Went to start the system and it wouldn't. Did a restore and on investigating the "repairs" found that the registry was corrupted. After the restore, I did a scan w/ Malwaraebytes and found that the system was infected.

Did a clean, rescanned and checked out everything...

All is good with the system now...

That's one for Michael...

LOL :D

All My Best,


Michael