DVD Drive Crashes Computer

Had a problem once where a brand new DVD Writer caused a computer to crash/freeze upon trying to play a DVD. Had all the hallmarks of IRQ/Hardware problems. I updated bios/drivers etc, but no joy. Rattled my brain to thing of anything else, then thought, why not, instead of using BSPlayer lets try Power DVD - always comes with useful codecs and generaly sorts outs problems. That was it! The pc had never played DVDs before and Media Player didn't seem to even try and download the codec! If you're having problems with a DVD drive, give that a go - simple solution to a painful problem!