Re: Black Screen Problem

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From: Craig (mapsliame2004-craig_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 11/15/04 

Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 17:02:22 -0800

Brian, do you get it to work at all? Mine works for awhile just fine, full
screen, and then after an hour or a day (no real time particular) the
picture just goes black. If your is doing the same, what is your hardware
configuration? SATA drives being used? Michel wrote that that could be
something for me to look at. What about the ATI cards? Are you using ATI
for both cards?

I am about to go and get a Hauppauge 150 to try and see if that cures the
problem. I will try to switch the recorded TV folder to the main hard
drive, but they are both SATA drives and I really can't see how that would
effect things. But I will try almost anything at this point.

Anyone else that has this problem, please tell me if you are using the eHome
wonder card and if the black screen comes like mine does - not right off the
bat, but after use for awhile.

Thanks everyone for your input.

Craig

"Brian" <Brian@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:4BB25503-06FC-4914-B7E8-E483670CBE93@microsoft.com...
> I'm having the same problem as you and I don't know how to fix it. I am
> getting sound, but not video. However, I am able to watch the recordings
> through windows media player.
>
> "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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