RE: mce 2005 freeze or other problems
- From: "Mark" <Mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 01:06:02 -0700
In the end I purchased the Nvidia DVD decoder software (though I already had
another one installed) and everything settled down. Also fast forward and
reverse began to work properly when replaying recorded TV.
"Daz_Racing" wrote:
> Hi Michel,
>
> I may not be able to help much, but I too am having a very similar problem.
> I'll just ramble on for a bit about what I'm seeing on my MCE system and some
> of my ideas.
>
> My system is an Abit AV8 mobo with an Athlon XP 64 3000. Up until yesterday
> I had a Lifeview Duo DVB-T card installed which was a bit flakey when using
> the timeshift functionality and it used to hang on rare occasions.
>
> I noticed that GTA were selling the Black Gold cards in pairs for £106 and
> had heard that they were good, so I took the plunge. After installing them I
> started to notice that after about 5 to 10 minutes of use, navigation would
> slow down until MCE just hangs with a "wobbling" windows pointer (do you get
> this "wobbling" pointer?), in the centre of the screen and as you say...a
> reboot is required 'cos you just can't get out of MCE otherwise.
>
> It seems to me that it could be something to do with the PCI DVB-T drivers.
> When I investigated further and tested differing scenarios, I noticed that it
> was more prone to hanging once recording TV had started. Is this the case
> with your system? I've sent an email to GTA support on this subject and hope
> to get a reply after the Bank Hol.
>
> I'll keep you posted on my findings....
>
> Regards,
> Darren
>
>
> --
> -------------------------------
>
>
> "Michel" wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > Ive the followin configuration
> >
> > processor: AMD Athlon 64 2800+
> > motherboard: MSI K8M Neo-V (K8M00 - Socket 754)
> > vga: Asus V9520 Magic/T (FX5200 128DDR TV)
> > tv card: AVerMedia UltraTV M150 PCI for MCE
> > wifi: US Robotics Wireless Turbo PCI Adapter (802.11g) USR805416
> > windows media center 2005 French
> > nvidia dvd decoder
> > Everithing with the latest driver and updates.
> >
> > The pc works great except when I start to use media center. Usually if I
> > start the pc and just use media center and then shutdown it is ok.
> > If I work on my pc let say to on the internet (noting fancy) then I start
> > media center, and watch tv, after 5 to 10 min. everithing freeze I've to
> > pull the electric plug. Some times I'm more lucky it's just Media Center who
> > crash.
> > Once I've done this quite often somethings gets broken. Once it was ntfs.dll
> > once some bad cluster, once somethings else ...
> > I've already reinstalled more than 10 time MCE from scratch (now I'm using
> > a ghost from the system it is faster)
> > I checked the processor and the memory with prime95 for 1 day without
> > problem. I did several test of the hd. If I use other tv software like
> > "Kastor! TV" there is no problem.
> > So what's wrong with this? Is there an hardware incompatibility (it doesn't
> > look so) Is MCE relly unstable?
> > Thanks for any help
> >
> > Michel
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
.
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