Re: Black Screen Problem

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From: Brian (Brian_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 11/15/04 

Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 06:44:08 -0800

I am only using one hard drive and it is not a SATA. I have the 150 MCE
eddition. My radio with the card works fine with Media Center, so I think
that it isn't the card. Keep me posted

"Craig" wrote:

> 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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