Re: Decoder Erorr

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Several users have had trouble with MCE with AMD Dual core chips with trying
to watch or record TV. They had to set up their systems so that the MCE
RCVR proocess would have an afinity for only one core or by disabling one
core in the BIOS. Apparently there where times when both cores were
simultanioulsy trying to get the same input from the tuner and the data was
being retrived out of sequence.

"Adam Egdall" <AdamEgdall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:7CA49B08-7DB2-4321-84BC-CD4E5B2A6302@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>I have a brand new install of XP MCE 2005 on an Intel 955XBK mainboard with
>a
> Dual Core 840 CPU, 2GB RAM, NVidia 6600 w/256MB, and an NVidia Dual Tuner.
> I
> have the latest retail version of NVidia's DVD Decoder installed but when
> I
> enter Media Center I get a Decoder error on live TV and can't record. The
> DECCHECK comes back showing that the decoder is set to primary and
> functioning properly but I'm getting nowhere fast. The MCE Test Kit also
> fails on all TV tests.


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