Re: Black Screen Problem

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

Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 10:15:04 -0800

Over 20 Gig on the first hard drive and over 200 on the other.

Craig

"Michel Bordeleau [MCE-MVP]" <Michel.mcemvp@googlemail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi.
>
> How much free disk space do you have on both drives when this occurs?
> --
>
> Michel Bordeleau
> MS-MVP - Windows XP Media Center Edition
> (remove oogle from email address to email me)
>
>
> "Craig" <mapsliame2004-craig@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:OD5ohFfyEHA.2876@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
>> 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
>>
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>>
>>
>>
>> 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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