Re: HELP! Media Center always freezes up!
- From: Heather <Heather@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 13:10:01 -0700
I have experienced TV freezing after about 2 hours of playing, but also when
I run a music playlist or queue and then have a photo slideshow running, the
video will freeze after 2 hours, and the audio will continue to run. Only way
to solve issue is to do a hard reboot. Did you also experience the same issue
or was it only with TV? I don't want to run a potential fix if it is not for
the same issue.
Thanks,
Heather
"dano-newsong" wrote:
I GOT IT FIXED!!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH! You gave me an idea when I read your.
post that said "It turned out to be an upgrade from my manufacturer's site
(HP)"
You gave me the push I needed to google this out further with
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=GATEWAY+MEDIA+CENTER+FREEZE and
I found an article "How to resolve TV glitching in Media Center 2005 on dual
core AMD computers" at:
http://blogs.msdn.com/astebner/archive/2005/12/01/499161.aspx
It ended up being the AMD 64 Athalon X2 proccessor in my new Gateway PC.
AMD has released a processor update pack on their hotfix website to address
this issue at:
http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/TechnicalResources/0,,30_182_871_13118,00.html
I downloaded their update for the dual core processor from their at:
http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/utilities/amdcpu.exe
So far the TV has played like new money! It didn't fix the old TV shows that
I had already recorded though. I'll try recording more shows and see if works
for them also. Before I couldn't even watch TV, but now I can with no
freezing! YEH!!!!
If you don't hear back from me it means all is well! Thanks again from the
bottom of my heart!
--
Dano - NewSong Online
"Thierry Plouchart" wrote:
I had the same problem which lasted almost a year and a half. It turned out
to be an upgrade from my manufacturer's site (HP). It was either a decoder
update or a video driver update. I still to now don't know but I had to get
the upgrade downloaded from another computer which had a faster connection,
mine was dial up, in order to get these massive downloads downloaded. So
whatever it was, it got fixed all at once. But I'd take the PC back and see
if it is doing the same thing with the trade in. If so then it must be that
upgrade. My mouse and keyboard was also freezing up even on other programs
and now I have none of these problems anymore. Where's the wood? I did
everything you could imagine from upgrading my ram to 1.5Gigs to taking it
back to the store and having them "clean out" nonessential programs. It
didn't help. I even went so far as to reformat the hard drive and order the
recover CDs since it couldn' even make it's own back up CDs. Eventually I
was able to get those to work also. So, it's been a long road for me but
everything works very well now except for the HD graphics card which gets
choppy on 1080i channels. 720P is awesome though. Good luck!
TP
"dano-newsong" <danonewsong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:A6B3F86F-650D-4BF2-A817-16F581F2546F@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Just got a brand new Gateway Media Center PC and everytime I have tried to
use the media center to watch TV, the video freezes up. This has been
since
day#1 and I've had the PC for approx 1 week now. I can't belive that Best
Buy
would sell a PC with a program like Media Center if the Media Center
doesn't
work.
I thought it would be cool to watch and record TV on the PC, but I guess
it
wasn't meant to be, unless there is a fix to this problem. If this is a
widespread problem it would seem there should be a MS patch, update, or
something. Anyone know of a fix so I can use Media Center?
Thanks!
--
Dano - NewSong Online
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