Gray screen of death when I try to play DVDs

Hi,
Ever since I've had my Macbook, I have found that it will almost always have a kernel panic when I start to play a DVD after the computer has been on for a while (I haven't timed it as such, but I would have had many other apps open before hand).
DVDs play fine soon into a new session.
I've also discovered this problem once or twice when I loaded up Toast and it was checking the DVD drive for disks.
Could there be something wrong with my drive?
Is it possible that it is my RAM causing the problem?
Thanks,
Alex

Hi Alex
Common wisdom has it that KPs are due to hardware faults, so it could be your RAM or it could be your drive, or it could be something else
I recommend you remove and reseat the ram cards, following the instructions in your manual. If that doesn't work, then you could drive clearing the cache files and removing the preference files for the DVD player. Then reboot.
You could also try using a different DVD player program.
If none of these steps help, then you might have to contact Apple Care and take it in for repair.
Bob

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