Re: Stability degradation of MCE2005

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Almost sounds like flakey hardware. Do these symptoms occur immediately
after power on, or do they take a while to occur? If so, could be a heat
issue...try running with the case off and see if it still happens. Or could
be a RAM issue - how many sticks of RAM do you have? If you have two, pull
one out and try running...if that works fine, then try the other stick and
see if it works fine.

Hopefully it's still under warranty...

Dana Cline - MVP

"miguel" <miguel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:A7880179-4313-4701-89F6-A09C0B386FE1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> I have an HP z545 MCE2005 machine. Loved it when i got it 2 months ago.
The
> only software I have loaded on this machine is McAfee Virusguard and
McAfee
> Firewall. I have noticed a lsow steady decline in the performance of this
> machine. Audio that doesn't match the video - Video that freezes - Screen
> that goes black but sound comes throug - crash reports - incorrect matches
on
> the scheudle and the ability to record - hanging where I cannot do
anything
> on themachine and must do a hard reboot - I use to be able to resize the
tv
> window but now am able to only minimize / maximize the tv window. I lost
> several tv programs and get interrupted in my tv viewing by a freak out
> machine. I restart it every morning. I defrag and disk cleanup on a
regular
> basis. I am scared. Is this normal? I am going to talk to HP and see if I
can
> return the machine and go back to my TiVo. Not sure if they will take it
> back. And if I am stuck wiht this machine, I am not sure how to minimize
the
> problems. Dang. This is a great idea but doesn't seem ready for primetime.


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