Here's a strange problem I'm having. PC freeze up (no blue screen), screen distorts and sound starts looping, only associated with Windows Media Center and XBMC. Requires a hard shutdown and reboot.
In Media Center, live TV plays fine, and records HD TV fine, but will go into freeze at any time while playing back recorded TV. I can mediashare and play these same recordings on another PC perfectly.
In XBMC, playing 1080P movie backups no problem, files are stored on a Mediasmart server. I have only seen XBMC freeze doing simple things like scrolling the movie list or hitting the escape button.
Day to day PC functions perfectly, streaming MOG and browsing. I am attaching a photo of the 46" monitor I'm using with the freeze up screen. If windows is logging this as an error, maybe somebody can tell me where to look as I haven't been able to find it. I am running a HT Omega Claro soundcard.
What I have done attempting to troubleshoot:
Updated Catalyst drivers and HT Omega drivers
Changed the INWin supplied 300w power supply to a quality 450w.
Replaced the AMD processor I was using with a BE-2400 low power unit.
Upped the Ram from 2GB to 4GB and then reverted back to 2GB after no change.
Disabled and re-enabled Media Center as I read somewhere this might be the problem, wasn't.
And last but not least, changed out the 4 yr old legacy ATI card I was using, to a new MSI ATI card. When I purchased this highly rated card, I purchased (2) of them, so, I swapped the card out with another and still no change. Installed latest Catalyst driver along with the new card. I don't remember if the freeze ever occurred with the Legacy card or not.
I'm looking for a solution, rather than just buying another video card, which may not be the problem anyway. And I don't want to blow up the hard drive and start over either..Help!
Attachment 225362
Tech Support Guy System Info Utility version 1.0.0.2
OS Version: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium, Service Pack 1, 64 bit
Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) X2 Dual Core Processor BE-2400, AMD64 Family 15 Model 107 Stepping 2
Processor Count: 2
RAM: 2046 Mb
Graphics Card: AMD Radeon HD 6570, 1024 Mb
Hard Drives: C: Total - 119898 MB, Free - 15777 MB; D: Total - 833866 MB, Free - 468987 MB;
Motherboard: FOXCONN, M61PMV
Antivirus: Microsoft Security Essentials, Updated and Enabled
In Media Center, live TV plays fine, and records HD TV fine, but will go into freeze at any time while playing back recorded TV. I can mediashare and play these same recordings on another PC perfectly.
In XBMC, playing 1080P movie backups no problem, files are stored on a Mediasmart server. I have only seen XBMC freeze doing simple things like scrolling the movie list or hitting the escape button.
Day to day PC functions perfectly, streaming MOG and browsing. I am attaching a photo of the 46" monitor I'm using with the freeze up screen. If windows is logging this as an error, maybe somebody can tell me where to look as I haven't been able to find it. I am running a HT Omega Claro soundcard.
What I have done attempting to troubleshoot:
Updated Catalyst drivers and HT Omega drivers
Changed the INWin supplied 300w power supply to a quality 450w.
Replaced the AMD processor I was using with a BE-2400 low power unit.
Upped the Ram from 2GB to 4GB and then reverted back to 2GB after no change.
Disabled and re-enabled Media Center as I read somewhere this might be the problem, wasn't.
And last but not least, changed out the 4 yr old legacy ATI card I was using, to a new MSI ATI card. When I purchased this highly rated card, I purchased (2) of them, so, I swapped the card out with another and still no change. Installed latest Catalyst driver along with the new card. I don't remember if the freeze ever occurred with the Legacy card or not.
I'm looking for a solution, rather than just buying another video card, which may not be the problem anyway. And I don't want to blow up the hard drive and start over either..Help!
Attachment 225362
Tech Support Guy System Info Utility version 1.0.0.2
OS Version: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium, Service Pack 1, 64 bit
Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) X2 Dual Core Processor BE-2400, AMD64 Family 15 Model 107 Stepping 2
Processor Count: 2
RAM: 2046 Mb
Graphics Card: AMD Radeon HD 6570, 1024 Mb
Hard Drives: C: Total - 119898 MB, Free - 15777 MB; D: Total - 833866 MB, Free - 468987 MB;
Motherboard: FOXCONN, M61PMV
Antivirus: Microsoft Security Essentials, Updated and Enabled
