Re: Win MCE Rollup2

[MacNewbie <macnewbie@xxxxxxxxx>]

Never one to give up easily, I thought I'd check out the Green Button
site - God it's slow!

Anyhoos...

Lo and behold there are another two users with the same graphics card
as me (Radeon 9600XT) experiencing black TV screens when in full
screen. It seems to work in windowed mode. I've just checked mine and
it does work in windowed mode.

More research I fear!

Don

On 30 Sep 2005, at 22:51, Keith Finnett wrote:

> Don't give up just yet.
>
> Something I worked out early on was that Windows MCE just can't
> cope with
> running longer than a couple of days. Therefore I run a scheduled
> job each
> night at 5am which reboots the PC and loads MCE afresh.
>
> In my MCE install that I've just decommissioned (ran for 6 months)
> it's
> failed no more than once a month - I've just set up a new MCE PC,
> so we'll
> see if the new one is any more stable!!
>
> Just don't expect it to last if you don't reset the machine regularly.
>
> k
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: MacNewbie [mailto:macnewbie@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 30 September 2005 22:44
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Win MCE Rollup2
>
> OK I formally give up :-(
>
> Been away for a couple of days so left the MCE box on with some
> proggies to record.
>
> Just got in and switched on the TV
>
> Error Message - Some files missing to play video. Restart Media
> Center or PC
>
> Restarted Media center - Black screen when restarted
>
> Restarted PC - Booted OK but Black screen when MCE loads
>
> The really weird thing is that once its loaded and the screen is
> black, if you press the "Windows" key on the keyboard the
windows
> menu appears in the foreground and is navigable and you can see the
> MCE menus in the background. But if you click on the MCE screen it
> goes black and the mouse starts to shimmer.
>
> Looks like some video overlay type problem to me!
>
> At least this time I backed it up!
>
> Might just try running it for a couple of days using a monitor rather
> than via S-Video to the TV.
>
> Don
>
>
>
> On 28 Sep 2005, at 16:32, Phil Harris wrote:
>
>
>>
>>
>>
>>> OK - I've given it another go!
>>>
>>>
>>
>> YAY!!
>>
>>
>>
>>> Rebuilt last night and left on all morning - seems OK. I also
>>> installed Rollup 2 again last night. I misunderstood the DAB
rabio
>>> comments - I kept getting no hardware found when accessing the
radio
>>> settings - I didn't realise you had to re-scan!
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Remember it's not DAB radio - thats different again.
>>
>>
>>
>>> Re-scan and voila!
>>>
>>> I've set it up to record a couple of programs during the
course of
>>> the day so let's see if it's stable.
>>>
>>> :-)
>>>
>>> Don
>>>
>>>
>>
>> COOL! Good luck Don...
>>
>> Phil
>>
>>
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