Sancho12
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Hi all.
I just built a Win7 HP SP1 64-bit box and installed a Ceton InfiniTV 4 tuner. I encountered the following problem today:
When pausing Live TV for more than 20 min., the PC becomes completely unresponsive and requires a hard reset. Here are the symptoms/indications:
After 10 min. a screensaver kicks in (I'm assuming this is a WMC function; lots of koala bears, etc.)
10 min. after that my LG LD550 TV kicks in with a "No Signal" screensaver.
Any attempt to regain control of the PC is lost and a hard reset must be performed.
Here are the relevant system specs:
Mobo: ASRock P67 Extreme6
CPU: Intel Core i5-2400 Sandy Bridge 3.1GHz
RAM: 8 GB of G.SKILL Sniper Low Voltage Series DDR3 1600
Video: SAPPHIRE Ultimate 100289UL Radeon HD 5670 1GB 128-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready
PSU: Antec EarthWatts EA650 650W Continuous Power
OS: Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-bit
This is a serious bug, but I'm at a loss to explain it (why I'm here, eh?
) Who's guilty? WMC? Ceton? AMD/ATI? M$ Win7? All of the above??? Inquiring minds want to know! 
Makes my registry hack to set the pause time to 100 min. look rather foolish :sarc:
Thanks in advance!
Sancho
P.S. - forgot to mention that resuming playback during the WMC screensaver works, with the exception that audio is garbled until playback is paused and resumed, or a jumpback is performed (tweaked to 7s in the registry
I just built a Win7 HP SP1 64-bit box and installed a Ceton InfiniTV 4 tuner. I encountered the following problem today:
When pausing Live TV for more than 20 min., the PC becomes completely unresponsive and requires a hard reset. Here are the symptoms/indications:
After 10 min. a screensaver kicks in (I'm assuming this is a WMC function; lots of koala bears, etc.)
10 min. after that my LG LD550 TV kicks in with a "No Signal" screensaver.
Any attempt to regain control of the PC is lost and a hard reset must be performed.
Here are the relevant system specs:
Mobo: ASRock P67 Extreme6
CPU: Intel Core i5-2400 Sandy Bridge 3.1GHz
RAM: 8 GB of G.SKILL Sniper Low Voltage Series DDR3 1600
Video: SAPPHIRE Ultimate 100289UL Radeon HD 5670 1GB 128-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready
PSU: Antec EarthWatts EA650 650W Continuous Power
OS: Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-bit
This is a serious bug, but I'm at a loss to explain it (why I'm here, eh?
) Who's guilty? WMC? Ceton? AMD/ATI? M$ Win7? All of the above??? Inquiring minds want to know! Makes my registry hack to set the pause time to 100 min. look rather foolish :sarc:
Thanks in advance!
Sancho
P.S. - forgot to mention that resuming playback during the WMC screensaver works, with the exception that audio is garbled until playback is paused and resumed, or a jumpback is performed (tweaked to 7s in the registry
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My Computer
- Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
- self-built
- OS
- Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit
- CPU
- Intel Core i5-2400 Sandy Bridge 3.1GHz
- Motherboard
- ASRock P67 Extreme6
- Memory
- 8 GB of G.SKILL Sniper Low Voltage Series DDR3 1600
- Graphics Card(s)
- SAPPHIRE Ultimate Radeon HD 5670 1GB 128-bit GDDR5
- Sound Card
- M-Audio Audiophile 192
- Monitor(s) Displays
- LG LD550
- Screen Resolution
- 1920x1080p
- Hard Drives
- four SATA 2/3, WD and Seagate
- PSU
- Antec EarthWatts EA650 650W Continuous Power
- Case
- Antec Three Hundred Black Steel ATX Mid
- Cooling
- gobs of fans
- Internet Speed
- 50 down / 10 up
- Other Info
- dual gigE NICs on mobo:
Realtek 8111E
for not thinking to check the power scheme. I had indeed set the High Performance scheme to shut off the monitor after 20 min. That coincides exactly with the lockup problem. Guess the ATI/AMD card, Ceton InfiniTV 4 and/or Windows Media Center freak out when WMC is paused on Live TV and the monitor signal is lost (may happen with recorded content, too; I assume it would). Anyway, setting the monitor shut off to "Never" solved it