Re: Black Screen Problem

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From: Craig (mapsliame2004-craig_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 11/14/04 

Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 21:41:39 -0800

your link only takes me to the Microsoft discussion groups home page,
nothing specific. I have tried all the current drivers from ATI though and
MCE 2005 is up to date via the update site.

I did find another thread where someone said to try a different video out
configuration, VGA to composite I believe is what they were getting at, but
I don't have that option. The 9600SE has VGA, DVI and S-video plugs for
output. I am plugging the s-video out into a Sony television, nothing
in-between.

Craig
"drdigital1" <drdigital1@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:6589C637-7CF0-4305-B40A-3D568651A98C@microsoft.com...
> did you try the ATI driver update listed below?
> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/newsgroups/reader.mspx?pg=2&guid=&sloc=en-
>
>
> "Craig" wrote:
>
>> Ok, discussion about this has gone on before, but to my knowledge no cure
>> is
>> out there. Can anyone help? I am at my wits end with this problem and
>> don't know what else to try.
>>
>>
>>
>> As a recap, here's the deal:
>>
>>
>>
>> The problem is that with my system I am running MCE 2005 and the live TV
>> feed will go dark (black screen) after use for a couple of hours with the
>> sound continuing. Everything else works, you can see the mouse pointer,
>> you
>> can switch over and watch recorded TV, but when you switch back to live
>> TV,
>> the picture is black with sound. This is also not set to any particular
>> intervals; it can happen after watching for an hour or it can happen
>> after a
>> day of continuous use. Once is does happen, the only cure is a reboot,
>> and
>> then its good to go again for whatever period of time it chooses. Today,
>> its done this four times over the course of about eight hours of using
>> it,
>> equaling the need to be rebooted each time. Yesterday, it went all day
>> with
>> no problems. There just is no rhyme or reason to the best of my
>> knowledge.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> The System Description is this:
>>
>> Case: SilverStone
>>
>> Mobo: MSI K8N-FSR
>>
>> CPU: AMD 64 3400+
>>
>> Ram: 1024 MB Kingston
>>
>> Hard Drive: Western Digital 36 GB Raptor (main OS and apps)
>>
>> Hard Drive: Western Digital 250 GB SATA (My Docs and Media Content)
>>
>> Video Card: ATI Radeon 9600SE - driver version 6.14.10.6490 (dated
>> 11/12/04)
>>
>> Capture Card: ATI eHome Wonder - driver version 1.17.24.223 (dated
>> 11/8/04)
>>
>> Disc Drive: CD-RW/DVD player
>>
>> Disc Drive: DVD Burner
>>
>> Card Reader: 7-in-1 card reader
>>
>> Wireless: Netgear WG311T PCI Card
>>
>> OS: Media Center Edition 2005
>>
>> DVD Decoder: Nvidia v1.00.58
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> If anyone has any ideas or knows of a fix, I would love to hear it. Any
>> comments are welcome.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>>
>> Craig
>>
>>
>>

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