Hello,
I cant seem to track down a bothersome problem and figured Id post hoping someone else has experienced the same issue. I recently did a board upgrade on my PVR to a P4 2.4 ghz with 1GB of ram, prior to this I was running on a P3 1 Ghz with 512 mb (was working ok, but kinda pushing it).
Now I experience random restarts. When it reboots I get the message:
Windows Has Recovered From A Serious Error, send/dont send error report. I have checked the system logs and there is a DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL entry. But I have loaded the current versions of all the drivers from the manufacturers sites and cant get this to go away. Here is the hardware, hopefully someone can help me sort this out, its driving me NUTS!
ECS mobo (sorry at work, dont recall exact model number, there are only 2 bios versions for this board and i have the most recent from 2004 i think) no video onboard.
hauppauge PRV-350 (current driver from their site), using 45 button remote, not using vid out from the card due to lockup problems
nVidia Geforce 440 MX (64 mb) vid card w/ s-video out (drivers from their site) using VR7 as card is not VR9 compatible.
Audigy SB2 audio card (drivers from their site, mobo sound disabled in bios)
Aside from the board, processor, and ram at the time i did the upgrade I also switched the HD configureation (drive 0 40 gb OS drive, drive 1 80 gb for recording storage, and a CDr drive) and installed the sound card (on board sound was messed up, disabled it.)
If anyone can shed some light on this it would be much appreciated! BTW it doesnt seem to really matter what you are doing at the time of the restart, most often the system is idle and i do not realize it has happened until i turn the TV back on and have to login again and reopen the program. although it has happened while watching TV, have not experienced it while recording was in process.
Just installed this on my 'Under the TV PC' project as an alternative to Media Center 2005. Seems like good software and got it doing most of what I want it to do. The main problem is that I have no sound when viewing live TV.
Have tried all conceivable codec combinations to no effect. Sound for music and DVD playback is fine, and live TV works OK in Media Center. I have attached one log file, let me know if you need the rest.
The Rig is:
Asrock dual SATA socket 939 Mobo
A64 3700+
ATI Radeon X800XL Graphics
Hauppauge WinTV Nova-T PCI Freeview TV Tuner
512MB RAM
HI-Tech Xmystify Dolby Digital Live! 7.1 soundcard (attached to Logitech zx-680 speakers by optical)
Thanks for any help, I could always go back to using Media Center but I find it slow and unconfigurable, this software seems great if I could just get this issue ironed out!
I'm having a peculiar recurring problem with GBPVR.
I have a K-World 300u USB2 Digital TV adapter, and all has been working perfectly well.
However, when trying to browse 'Live TV' I get no picture or sound, no error. When I go into config to try and 'Map digital to EPG' channels, it scans, but says signal strength -20, quality 10.
I fixed this previously by re-installing K-World's BDA driver, but now I am truly stuck. The hardware isn't at fault, so it must be software/config or drivers...
I upgraded to 99.5.
DotNet 2.0 was already installed and the upgrade went without problems.
However recording doesn't work any longer.
in the GBPVRRecordingService.exe.log file I see this:
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1/22/2007 1:24:21 PM.671 ERROR [7] FATAL UNHANDLED EXCEPTION:: System.AccessViolationException: Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt.
at System.Net.UnsafeNclNativeMethods.OSSOCK.WSAGetOverlappedResult(SafeCloseSocket socketHandle, IntPtr overlapped, UInt32& bytesTransferred, Boolean wait, IntPtr ignored)
at System.Net.Sockets.BaseOverlappedAsyncResult.CompletionPortCallback(UInt32 errorCode, UInt32 numBytes, NativeOverlapped* nativeOverlapped)
at System.Threading._IOCompletionCallback.PerformIOCompletionCallback(UInt32 errorCode, UInt32 numBytes, NativeOverlapped* pOVERLAP)
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and in the windows application event log I get this error:
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Faulting application gbpvrrecordingservice.exe, version 1.0.2547.27412, stamp 00000013, faulting module imon.dll, version 2.51.8.0, stamp 42d24c73, debug? 0, fault address 0x0000d039.
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What can I do ? There was nothing wrong before the upgrade.
Hi,
Just wondering if someone can answer some questions I have about satelite receiver cards.
If I was to buy one and plug my sky dish in it and point it the right direction, could I pick up channels from various satelites for free? or do I need a patch to do this and a specific dish?
Also what card would be best to buy, for vaule, quality, and able to run on GBPVR.
essentially, i get random lockups when watching live tv on my pc. the blue screen of death says "NMI: Parity check / Memory parity error" contact hardware vendor. normally, i would do just that, but the thing is, it only happens when i'm watching tv with gb-pvr. and it always happens. so here's my rig
dell dimension 4700 (intel 915g chipset)
intel pentium 4, 2.8ghz
1 gig dual channel ddr2 4200, by Geil with heatspreaders
powercolor ati theater550 pro tv tuner pcie x1
sapphire radeon x800gto 128mg ddr2, standard speed, pcie x16
Sb audigy 2 value, pci
i also have tried to run the pc with the side panel open in case it was overheating or something. no dice.
gb-pvr is v0.98.13b
all drivers are up to date as well as the os, windows xp pro.
Every time we were gone for a week or so, we'd come home to find the gbpvr PC locked up. Each time the event viewer reported a 2019 error that said the system ran out of non-paged memory. I found the following site that described a way to troubleshoot it. Excellent blog.
With the paged and non-paged memory columns enabled on Taskman, the WZCSLDR2.exe program was shown to be eating up 100k non-paged and growing fast! No other app was anywhere near that much in non-paged memory usage. I calculated it had grown to over 200 meg before the crash!
I researched and many sites said WZCSLDR2.exe is related to the Dlink wireless card. I decided to disable it from startup and the wireless card still works and no more non-paged hogging! Whew.... and now our shows are reliably recording again!
Hopes this helps others in diagnosing problems in the event viewer affecting the stability of your gbpvr rig.
Went to dual tuner cards, a PVR 350 and PVR 150mce, so I could watch a program while recording another, and maybe get PIP. I quickly found out that that the Hauppauge ir.exe would no longer load, and so the remote was useless. There is a fix however, you can find it here: http://www.hauppauge.co.uk/board/archive...-2579.html
My version of the batch file ended up looking like this:
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@call devcon disable PCI\VEN_4444*DEV_0016*SUBSYS_88010070*REV_01*
@start f:\progra~1\wintv\ir.exe /quiet
@cls
@echo .
@echo The ping you see scrolling below is simply a wait designed to give IR
@echo ..
@echo a chance to start and verify it can work.
rem @pause
@ping 127.0.0.1 -n 10 -w 1000
@cls
@echo thank you
@devcon enable PCI\VEN_4444*DEV_0016*SUBSYS_88010070*REV_01*
start f:\progra~1\devnz\gbpvr\gbpvrtray.exe
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It DOES get ir.exe working again, however a message box pops up when ir.exe loads. Haven't figured out how to supress that yet. The /quiet switch has no effect.
Maybe someone could add this to the wiki, I haven't had time to figure out how contribute to it yet.
