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I have both the HD HomeRun PRime on my home network and the Hauppauge HVR-2250 card in my main system.
Keep in mind that I have an OC'd system, but I do not believe this is causing me the problem I have. I've gone back, reset to stock for a while, then reviewed and retested every BIOS profile. I only improved the settings with that exercise. But the problem persists. I even replaced my RAM unnecessarily. Troubleshooting my problem takes much patience, because it occurs regularly but only every week and a half or so.
I leave the system on 24/7. It does not sleep. Maybe I'll burn out my LG 42" HDTV or even my ONKYO receiver, but that would be through use. I sleep irregular hours and leave the TV (and Media Center computer) running all the time.
About every 10 to 12 days, I experience some instability. This always occurs while running Media Center. The system resets unannounced, or only occasionally gets a BSOD. The HDMI audio feed from my NVidia graphics card may leave the AVR blaring an "ANGGGGGG . . . " sound and the Media Center TV screen freezes. The mouse freezes -- the whole system freezes, and I have to hit the reset button.
During August last year, I was working on a mortgage refinance package very intensively, and left the TV set to its "basic cable" input feed -- which is to say I wasn't running media center. I didn't have a reset for that entire month. I should have made note right away that the problem might relate to MC and my media hardware.
So I mentioned the RAM, which I replaced. Turns out that wasn't the problem. I updated and installed all my VGA drivers and software. I updated just about every hardware driver I can think of, including the chipset drivers, the SATA (both Intel and Marvel) drivers, the network drivers and so on.
But I never updated my Hauppauge HVR-2250 driver, and I never updated my HDHomeRun software, driver and firmware.
I finally got around to looking at these two items. Reviewing SiliconDust's change logs for its software and firmware, I see earlier revisions which fixed "crashes . . . freezes . . . " etc. It dawned on me that I had completely overlooked this item, because it ISN'T "PART OF" MY COMPUTER SYSTEM -- IT'S A NETWORK DEVICE.
Before contacting both manufacturers to see if they can enlighten me, I thought I'd drop by here to check if anyone with either the HVR-2250, the HDHomeRun Prime or BOTH have had similar problems.
This has got to be the most elusive problem I've faced, and because it only surfaces over a period of a week or two when the computer is on 24/7, it is hard to identify immediately whether I fixed the problem or not.
I just updated my HDHomeRun Prime SW, Driver and firmware. I'm going to do the same with the Hauppauge tuner, which I just downloaded. Any insights or identification of similar problems by others would be helpful.
Keep in mind that I have an OC'd system, but I do not believe this is causing me the problem I have. I've gone back, reset to stock for a while, then reviewed and retested every BIOS profile. I only improved the settings with that exercise. But the problem persists. I even replaced my RAM unnecessarily. Troubleshooting my problem takes much patience, because it occurs regularly but only every week and a half or so.
I leave the system on 24/7. It does not sleep. Maybe I'll burn out my LG 42" HDTV or even my ONKYO receiver, but that would be through use. I sleep irregular hours and leave the TV (and Media Center computer) running all the time.
About every 10 to 12 days, I experience some instability. This always occurs while running Media Center. The system resets unannounced, or only occasionally gets a BSOD. The HDMI audio feed from my NVidia graphics card may leave the AVR blaring an "ANGGGGGG . . . " sound and the Media Center TV screen freezes. The mouse freezes -- the whole system freezes, and I have to hit the reset button.
During August last year, I was working on a mortgage refinance package very intensively, and left the TV set to its "basic cable" input feed -- which is to say I wasn't running media center. I didn't have a reset for that entire month. I should have made note right away that the problem might relate to MC and my media hardware.
So I mentioned the RAM, which I replaced. Turns out that wasn't the problem. I updated and installed all my VGA drivers and software. I updated just about every hardware driver I can think of, including the chipset drivers, the SATA (both Intel and Marvel) drivers, the network drivers and so on.
But I never updated my Hauppauge HVR-2250 driver, and I never updated my HDHomeRun software, driver and firmware.
I finally got around to looking at these two items. Reviewing SiliconDust's change logs for its software and firmware, I see earlier revisions which fixed "crashes . . . freezes . . . " etc. It dawned on me that I had completely overlooked this item, because it ISN'T "PART OF" MY COMPUTER SYSTEM -- IT'S A NETWORK DEVICE.
Before contacting both manufacturers to see if they can enlighten me, I thought I'd drop by here to check if anyone with either the HVR-2250, the HDHomeRun Prime or BOTH have had similar problems.
This has got to be the most elusive problem I've faced, and because it only surfaces over a period of a week or two when the computer is on 24/7, it is hard to identify immediately whether I fixed the problem or not.
I just updated my HDHomeRun Prime SW, Driver and firmware. I'm going to do the same with the Hauppauge tuner, which I just downloaded. Any insights or identification of similar problems by others would be helpful.
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