Re: MCE 2005 Locks up when watching/ recording TV
- From: Jason Hansen <JasonHansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 16:18:01 -0800
FYI: I Googled "Multimedia mode not supported for the standard" and found
that may be due to Catalyst, an app that comes with ATI supported products
and is apparently an overlay of some sort.
Additionally, I was able to recreate the problem after backing out Catalyst.
When I recreated the error, the Event Log also showed that the "Service
Control Manager; EventID: 7036 - WMI Performance Adapter service entered the
stopped state." I am not sure what the error means and the Microsoft Website
says its informational only - no user action needed.
"Jason Hansen" wrote:
My X300 has 128 MB..
Tuner card is working on IRQ22, graphics is on IRQ16. It is as for to the
bottom of the PCI rack as can be, the X300 is third generation PCI (the fast
one...can't remember what they call it these days).
Hard drive is a Western Digital and is partitioned as 44 GB of partition "0"
and partition "1" with 322 GB.
However, I am seeing a lot of errors on the MMC snapin for the System Event
Log. The first one of note is "EVENTID: 11 - The driver detected a
controller error on \device\harddisk0\D." When I click on the Details link,
it takes me to a MS page that says that the "error is typically caused by a
failing drive cable" (which is only six months old). So I will replace it,
but I don't feel comfortable saying this is the root cause.
The second one appears to be related to the first: "EventID: 9 - The device
\Device\Ide\IdePort3 did not respond within the timeout period. The
explanation on the MS website says that the CDRoom disc may need replacing or
clearning." But I don't have one in the drive at present. And the DVD Writer
functions flawlessly. I am inclined to ignore this error and I don't feel
this is the root cause either.
And then there is another error on the same log; "Source: ait2mtag; EventID:
49166/ Category SDTV - MODE: Multimedia mode not supported for the standard."
There is no further explanation for this one. But this one troubles me. I
am able to generate it whenever I start the Windows Media Center GUI (just
loading the GUI, not actually opening on the Live TV view or anything.)
I hope you are able to derive some suggestions from this, besides replacing
the Visiontek/ ATI Radeon video card. But if it comes down to it, I have
over $1900 invested in this box, I suppose $200 more won't make that much
difference.
Jason
"JW" wrote:
Does your X300 card have at least 64MB of onboard memory?
Is your tuner card possibly sharing its IRQ or in the slot next to your
graphics card?
What is your disk drive configuration?
"Jason Hansen" <JasonHansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I recently built what I call a media center machine. All I want it for is
to
record my television shows, play them back, watch DVDs, listen to music
and
view pictures.
Playing DVDs does not appear to be a problem. But when watching TV while
the
MCE GUI is full screen for about 20 minutes, the machine will lock up and
a
blue screen that tells me the connection was lost will appear (even though
sound continues to play on the speakers). This happens even faster when
recording it seems. If I quick exit out of MCE 2005 or switch over to DVD
play back, I can salvage the situation. If I don't the CPU cooling fan
will
increase its speed several times (faster each time) and then the machine
will
bounce (reboot).
If I record television with the MCE GUI and viewing area cascaded (not
full
screen), it buys me an extra 10 minutes of viewing time.
Under normal operation (before this exception or whatever it is occurs)
CPU
utilization seems to remain constant at 30-40% and memory usage remains
constant at about 385-410 MB (out of 2048 MB). When the "Loss of Signal"
screen appears, the CPU utilization tanks to 0% and then spikes to 100%
and
then dips back down to the 30-40% mark. Memory usage increases to about
440
MB.
The MCE event log records the loss of signal. There is a second log entry
that indicates the recording resumed.
Paging file is set to drive "C" and is controlled by the system (although
it
is using far less space than is allotted - currently about 2500 MB out of
5000 MB). The tuner card I am using is by Avermedia (AvertTV Purity-3D
MCE
500) and the video card is a VisionTek Radeon X300 SE Hypermemory. Sound
is
built into the Intel Motherboard, the machine is using a P4 (not a duo nor
is
it a 64 bit processor).
I have reimaged the machine twice just to ensure I had a clean install and
was only running the bare amount of apps I could (Nero and Power DVD).
Machine has the most recent updates from Microsoft. There is a ton of
resource sharing/ conflict entries, but the list is made up mostly of the
Intel motherboard components (PCI bridge, North/ South bridges, etc.) I
will
make this list available to anyone who wants it.
Any thoughts on what I can do to resolve this issue?
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