MCE 2005

[shilala]

This is making my hair fall out.
When watching live tv, the video starts chopping.
Funny things is that it doesn't start until about 20 minutes into play.

It appears that the stutter is taking place in the playback.
That's evidenced by the fact that it's lost time and I can fast forward about 3 seconds and it clears up for a few seconds, only to compound again.

I've checked my bios dma settings, ide channel dma settings, reinstalled a rollup, and read until I'm blue in the face.
I even suffered through a half hour of trying to pull up pages at greenbutton, all to no avail.

I did read something about nvidia IDE drivers. I have yet to uninstall them and let Windows take over, but I'm on my way.

Anyone have any ideas?

 

[spyordie007]

Sorry I dont have many suggestions here, but it might be usful to know what model capture card you're using.

I suppose it could be a hard drive performance related problem (I've seen this capturing video when the drive cant keep up). Do you have plenty of drive space left?

How recently did this problem start?

 

[shilala]

Originally posted by: spyordie007
Sorry I dont have many suggestions here, but it might be usful to know what model capture card you're using.

I suppose it could be a hard drive performance related problem (I've seen this capturing video when the drive cant keep up). Do you have plenty of drive space left?

How recently did this problem start?

My rig specs are in my sig, it's a Hauppauge PVR500.
The drive specs are in my sig too, they're fresh, empty and running at dma6.
I really thought that was the problem, but I'm not so sure now.
This is a new build and the problem has been present (at some level) since day one.

I got rid of the nvidia drivers and I removed Rollup 2.
I removed rollup 2 because it just came to my attention that I could no longer watch hbo.
I'm watching tv now and I haven't seen a chop.
I should know in about 10 minutes if the problem is solved.
If it is, I'll reinstall rollup 2 and see if the hbo issue was tied to the rollup removal.

At this point it looks like the a8n-sli nvidia ide driver was the problem.
If you have any other suggestions at all, I'd be happy to hear them!!!

****Edit
Nope, didn't do it, same old shyt.
Aargh.
Back to the drawing board.
****Edit 2
I did find that I have ata66 hdds and I was set up for ata 133 in device manager.
I made that change and reinstalled the rollup.
I'm going to check and see if the problem still exists.
I changed the record volume to my seondary drive, too.