RE: No Media Center (Black screen)
- From: chunks <chunks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 03:14:01 -0700
I am just so glad I have found people with the same problem, I have been
pulling my hair out with this one. I have a Shuttle based system with an
Nvidia Geforce 5200 with latest drivers from the Nvidia site.
MCE 2005 works great however if I leave my system over night, turn on in the
morning I get the dreaded black screen. As you say I can see the mouse and
shutdown using task manager but it so frustrating. I noticed that you can
even hear the cursor moving from menu item to menu item, it seems as though
the video card has locked or froze.
There seems to be no pattern that I can see at the moment. Last night I was
using the MC no problem watching live TV. Set it to record a couple of
programs an hour later. Came in just after they were due to finish and got
the black screen.
I dont think however this is related to the scheduled recording as I've sat
and watched it record several scheduled shows with no problems. Just seems to
be intermittent.
I now have a personal war with my Media Centre and am trying to get to the
bottom of this. Today I am going to swap my Video card for my sons ATI based
card and see if I get the same thing.
"screwzloos" wrote:
> I am getting the same thing, and I am pretty sure the problem is the result
> of media center not reconfiguring itself to video card driver updates. When i
> first installed MCE2k5 the video card drivers weren't present, and MCE
> configured itself to run without them, which it did just fine. The problem
> with not having video card drivers is, well, you cant really do anything
> productive, like play games. So i installed the newest nvidia drivers, and
> viola here i am with the black screen and the flickering mouse. Media center
> shows up just fine in the background if i alt-tab to another program, but if
> i click on media center, i get back to the black. Maybe theres a pro around
> here who can tell us how to get media center to reconfigure itself? That
> would be some pretty handy information.
>
> "Thierry Plouchart" wrote:
>
> > Does anyone know what may have caused my MCE to suddnlly not work? When I
> > try to engage it the mouse pointer flickers and that's all I see but the
> > screen is black. I was having some problems earlier with multiple screens.
> > Which I figured out by unchecking the "extend my windows desktop onto this
> > monitor" and choosing 1 as my primary display and using same on all in clone
> > mode option. (I have an ATI graphics card). So even my TV won't show
> > anything in MediaCenter but it does in WXP.
> >
> >
> >
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