No video playback in the timeline

Hello guys, I have a huge problem, running premiere pro cs6. There is no video playback at all in the timeline, I only see a frozen frame, while the sound is working well. I was trying it with most compression formats (also low resolution material), it's always the same.My system is a Toshiba Satellite P875-31R 43,9 cm (17,3 Zoll) Notebook (Intel Core i7 3630QM, 2,4GHz, 16GB RAM, 750GB HDD, 128GB SSD, NVIDIA GT 640M, Blu-ray, Win 8). I was sure, it's working well. Does anybody know a possible solution? Thank you very much

....whoa!!!!.....with that machine.....ordinarily, this should NOT be happening!!!!
Simple things to check :
1. Is newest driver installed for your video card ??? download and install from NVidia website, if necessary.
2. If your machine has " Intel Integrated Graphics" on the motherboard.....it may need to be turned off in BIOS to allow NVidia card to run.
3. Is your 750GB HDD a 7,200 rpm drive??....if 5400RPM put it in an external dock or enclosure to archive or backup stuff ....replace with Crucial M4 large SSD or Seagate momentus 750GB Hybrid HDD.
4. Is laptop setup properly ? :
    a. turn off indexing and compression on all drives
    b. OS, programs, and windows page file are only things to go on "C" drive....move all else to other drive
    c. Is SSD suffering from "write degradation performance??" Check performance by watching Windows performance monitor while transferring a large file between
        HDD and SSD....test write speed in both directions. If HDD is 7200 RPM, it will limit this performance to ~ 105 to 110 MB per second....if 5400RPM can be far,far
       less!! Make sure HDD is less than half full and defragmented!
    d. Is machine tuned??...remove unnecessary programs running in background.
5. Is PPro set properly :
    a. With SSD....project files can go on SSD "C" drive....even media cache and previews,too, ( because of SSD speed.....not normally done). Compare with "D" for them.
    b. Use "new item" icon to create your sequence to make sure timeline matches your footage, ( i.e. frames per sec., aspect ratio, etc.)
    c. Make sure your NVidia card is "enabled" to work with PPro by applying the well discussed here "hack", or, visit Studio North website to use a simple program to
        do it for you. Then, check in project settings that "Mercury Playback Engine" is selected to accelerate editing performance, (NOT 'software only" ). This "MPE" will
        speed rendering previews and rendering output by accelerating certain functions, ( dissolves, color correction, scaling, etc.).
   d. What codec(s) are you working with ??? If they are "RED" or 4K you may be overwhelming your machine. Even common DSLR codecs are very taxing on an i7
       laptop.   You may need to transcode clips to DNxD Windows codec, or similar, to edit.
In general...."Occums Razor" suggests that the simplest answer usually applies.....something like just the correct video card driver !!!    Good Luck !!!

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