I have an All In Wonder Pro 9600 with the Catalyst 3.9 drivers and Multimedia
Center 8.7. I have the latest drivers for my AGP chipset, I have fast writes
turned off. I'm running Windows XP SP1 with 512MB of RAM. After a few seconds
of playback of any video that I recorded from TV, Multimedia Center locks up.
This happens with both the file player and tv on demand timeshifting, with
mutiple recording formats. To get file player to lock up, I just have to have
it play a file. To get the timeshifting to lock up, I just have to pause and
resume live TV, then it locks up a few seconds after resuming. The lockup is a
solid lockup, I have to hit the reset button to recover. Anyone know what's
causing this? If I record in mpeg or wmv, it plays fine in Windows Media
Player, but Multimedia Center still locks up while trying to play it.

Brett Simmers
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Brett Simmers wrote:
> I have an All In Wonder Pro 9600 with the Catalyst 3.9 drivers and
> Multimedia Center 8.7. I have the latest drivers for my AGP chipset, I
> have fast writes turned off. I'm running Windows XP SP1 with 512MB of
> RAM. After a few seconds of playback of any video that I recorded from
> TV, Multimedia Center locks up. This happens with both the file player
> and tv on demand timeshifting, with mutiple recording formats. To get
> file player to lock up, I just have to have it play a file. To get the
> timeshifting to lock up, I just have to pause and resume live TV, then
> it locks up a few seconds after resuming. The lockup is a solid lockup,
> I have to hit the reset button to recover. Anyone know what's causing
> this? If I record in mpeg or wmv, it plays fine in Windows Media
> Player, but Multimedia Center still locks up while trying to play it.
>
> Brett Simmers
> (E-Mail Removed)

Just a little more information: I had originally thought that DVD playback was
fine, but I was watching a dvd a few minutes ago and it froze. When it freezes
(from any cause), the last half second or so of sound is repeated over and over
again, and nothing on the computer is responsive.

Brett

Brett,

I have the exact same problem. I traced it to my new SB Audigy sound card.
When I removed it and returned to using the audio connections on my
motherboard, I have no more lockup problems. I was also able to work around
it by changing the IDE ATA/ATAPI controller for my hard drive to PIO instead
of DMA. Don't know why this works. Unfortunately, by changing to PIO, it
also made my computer run too slow, so I removed the card. I have a
suspicion there is some sort of conflict between the ATI card and the SB
card when both want to use DMA.

I sent an email to SB, but never got a response. Guess I'll just return it.

Good luck,
Mike

"Brett Simmers" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:Go2dnWcEQ8fe4SiiRVn-(E-Mail Removed)...
> I have an All In Wonder Pro 9600 with the Catalyst 3.9 drivers and
Multimedia
> Center 8.7. I have the latest drivers for my AGP chipset, I have fast
writes
> turned off. I'm running Windows XP SP1 with 512MB of RAM. After a few
seconds
> of playback of any video that I recorded from TV, Multimedia Center locks
up.
> This happens with both the file player and tv on demand timeshifting, with
> mutiple recording formats. To get file player to lock up, I just have to
have
> it play a file. To get the timeshifting to lock up, I just have to pause
and
> resume live TV, then it locks up a few seconds after resuming. The lockup
is a
> solid lockup, I have to hit the reset button to recover. Anyone know
what's
> causing this? If I record in mpeg or wmv, it plays fine in Windows Media
> Player, but Multimedia Center still locks up while trying to play it.
>
> Brett Simmers
> (E-Mail Removed)

Mike wrote:
> Brett,
>
> I have the exact same problem. I traced it to my new SB Audigy sound card.
> When I removed it and returned to using the audio connections on my
> motherboard, I have no more lockup problems. I was also able to work around
> it by changing the IDE ATA/ATAPI controller for my hard drive to PIO instead
> of DMA. Don't know why this works. Unfortunately, by changing to PIO, it
> also made my computer run too slow, so I removed the card. I have a
> suspicion there is some sort of conflict between the ATI card and the SB
> card when both want to use DMA.
>
> I sent an email to SB, but never got a response. Guess I'll just return it.
>
> Good luck,
> Mike

I tried your suggestions, but it still locks up . At first I tried just
removing my sound card (SB PCI 128) and enabling my onboard sound (C-Media) but
it still locked up. After that, I tried disabling DMA, but it still locks up.
It plays for longer before locking up (almost a minute, it locked up within a
few seconds before), but it still does. You're right about PIO being slow, I
have DMA enabled again for now since it wasn't working anyway. Thanks for your
suggestions, do you have any more ideas?

Brett

Brett Simmers wrote:
> Mike wrote:
>
>> Brett,
>>
>> I have the exact same problem. I traced it to my new SB Audigy sound
>> card.
>> When I removed it and returned to using the audio connections on my
>> motherboard, I have no more lockup problems. I was also able to work
>> around
>> it by changing the IDE ATA/ATAPI controller for my hard drive to PIO
>> instead
>> of DMA. Don't know why this works. Unfortunately, by changing to
>> PIO, it
>> also made my computer run too slow, so I removed the card. I have a
>> suspicion there is some sort of conflict between the ATI card and the SB
>> card when both want to use DMA.
>>
>> I sent an email to SB, but never got a response. Guess I'll just
>> return it.
>>
>> Good luck,
>> Mike
>
>
> I tried your suggestions, but it still locks up . At first I tried
> just removing my sound card (SB PCI 128) and enabling my onboard sound
> (C-Media) but it still locked up. After that, I tried disabling DMA,
> but it still locks up. It plays for longer before locking up (almost a
> minute, it locked up within a few seconds before), but it still does.
> You're right about PIO being slow, I have DMA enabled again for now
> since it wasn't working anyway. Thanks for your suggestions, do you
> have any more ideas?
>
> Brett

I was just playing Counter Strike, and I had a lockup very similar to what
happens with Ati MMC. The last half second or so of sound was repeated and the
machine was frozen solid. This is the first time it's happened outside of MMC.
Any ideas anyone?

Brett