Re: Black Screen Problem

From: Michel Bordeleau [MCE-MVP] (Michel.mcemvp_at_googlemail.com)
Date: 11/14/04 

Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 09:09:55 -0500

Hi.

 How much free disk space do you have on both drives when this occurs? 

-- 
Michel Bordeleau
MS-MVP - Windows XP Media Center Edition
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"Craig" <mapsliame2004-craig@yahoo.com> wrote in message 
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> 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.
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> As a recap, here's the deal:
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> 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.
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> The System Description is this:
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> Case: SilverStone
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> Mobo: MSI K8N-FSR
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> CPU: AMD 64 3400+
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> Ram: 1024 MB Kingston
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> 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)
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> Capture Card: ATI eHome Wonder - driver version 1.17.24.223 (dated 
> 11/8/04)
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> Disc Drive: CD-RW/DVD player
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> Disc Drive: DVD Burner
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> Card Reader: 7-in-1 card reader
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> Wireless: Netgear WG311T PCI Card
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> OS: Media Center Edition 2005
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> DVD Decoder: Nvidia v1.00.58
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> If anyone has any ideas or knows of a fix, I would love to hear it.  Any 
> comments are welcome.
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> Thanks,
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> Craig
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