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Win 7 pc freezes when streaming video to living room pc
Hello everybody,
I'm sorry if i make some spelling errors, i am dutch and not that good at english.
I recently upgraded to windows 7 on all 3 of my home computers and i am loving it so far.
There is 1 problem i can't solve myself and it has to do with my home server freezing up whenever another computer in my home network stream a dvd (or sometime even a small divx) movie from it.
Strange thing is, the same setup worked flawlessly when i had vista on all my computers so that rules out that its any hardware issue (maybe a driver issue from nic or something?)
PC1 where i think the problem is :
My main computer with al the media on it im going refer to as server, this pc has Win 7 Ultimate x64 installed on it, intel core2duo E6850 @3,0Ghz, 4 gigs DDR2 memory and an Asus P5K motherboard.
All my media is on a shared drive on this pc and all other pc's can access it through my home network.
PC2 the one i use to watch movies :
My 2nd pc is in the livingroom and hooked up to my flatpannel tv, this pc ill refer to as my mediacenter.This pc has windows 7 ultimate x32 installed. It has an Intel Pentium 4 3.4 CPU, 2 gigs DDR2 memory and an Abit AB9 Quad GT motherboard.
My network settings :
My home network is completely wired (no wireless devices whatsoever) and all connected through a netgear FVG318 Router. There is no password on sharing and every setting in my home network is set to share everything with all others in my network, so all if freely accessible.
The actual problem :
As said all my media is hosted on my server computer, there are DVD's divx movies and some music and pictures.
Whenever i try to watch a DVD on my mediacenter the movie freezes, sometimes already in the titlescreen but also sometimes 5, 10 or even 30 minutes into the movie. The freezes are completely random i guess.
The mediacenter workes fine after a freeze, only error i get is that it cannot connect to my server.
When i goto my server i at first noticed that my network connection was lost on my server.
After some trial and error i found out when i disable my networkcard on the server and after enabled it agian i could continue watching my movie on the mediacenter but it the freeze kept happening.
Then i thought it might be a power save setting so i made a powersave scheme where nothing turns off, no hibernation and not even the display turns off.
Also i changed some setting in the network card on my server telling it that it could not be turned off to save power.
After all this done when i watch a DVD now on my mediacenter my whole server just freezes after a while.
I still see the desktop screen and my mouse mointer but i cant move it, no error msge its just a frozen screen.
I also browser my system logs and looked for errors around the time the freezes occur but i cant find anything related. the only errors i see are after the system halted.
The log stated the system has been shut down unexpecedly (couse i pressed the off button) and after it restarts i see i couple of performance index errors (WmiApRpl).
So if anyone has any idea what to do about this problem, any help would be really appreciated.
Thank you and regards,
Enjul