Re: PC locks up when in Guide with tv or recording playing minimized
- From: "Dana Cline - MVP" <dcline@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 11:00:27 -0500
If it's not the video card, I'd suggest it may be your system RAM. If you
have two sticks of RAM, try running with just one...if the problem repeats,
try the other one. If it only occurs with one of the two sticks, then that
one has a bad spot and should be replaced...
Dana Cline - MVP
"Cablesapien" <Cablesapien@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:F0E23C99-E007-4059-A229-5949ECB39CA5@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Anyone ever seen a problem where the entire PC locks up (even ctrl,alt,del
> will not work to recover, you must reset pc) when you have either live tv
or
> a recording running and you go into the guide and the video is running
> minimized in the corner and when you navigate around the guide to see
what's
> on or set up a recording etc. the picture will freeze, the mouse cursor
> freezes( depending on if you are using the remote or the mouse to
navigate)
> and nothing responds. This doesn't happen immediately but is does happen
> within a few moves in the menu and it will do it every time.
>
> This doesn't happen when I am in the guide navigating around without the
> video window playing something.
>
> No errors pop up just a solid freeze. the video image playing is frozen
> ,everything just dead as dead can be and nothing will recover it but a
button
> reset on the case.
>
> This is a brand new 1st day machine built by a custom pc builder. I
don't
> have the exact details of the configuration but the basics are a Gigabyte
> mobo, dual tuner cards ( unsure which at the moment), an ATI 9550 256mb V
> card, 1gb ram, 3.2mhz Intel P4. Running MCE2005
>
> I haven't tried a lot yet because I didn't know where to start. If this
> type of issue seemed to be a tuner card issue, video card issue, MCE issue
> etc.
>
> I guess I will have to start by updating drivers of everything but hated
to
> waste the time until I had a better idea where a problem like this may be
> more likely to reside.
>
> Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks.
>
>
.
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