I need to say that everything was working dandy until about 2 days ago when all of a sudden my computer pauses when I try to play any windows media files. So I ran dxdiag and when i do the directdraw tests it freezes the same way. I have to do a total re-boot. Does anyone have any suggestions. Will re-installing Directx help. Its strange because it worked fine before.
Please help..

sys specs
PII450
tntII ultra
128 Megs Ram
Win2k RC3

I got the problem too... I know how u can repair it : install the 3.78 or 3.81 nvidia's drivers and that's it!