new Samsung 1tb hd causing slow mvp and stutter!

[mattrobo]

Been a busy weekend and not been on the computer. i ahve continued to rebuild windows and everything on a new HD and GBPVR is still happy. I will hopefully this week see if I can run a fix on the original version of windows as it has some stuff there I would still like but dont want to risk putting on this clean install.

I like the idea of your 2 options for locking down Windowas. I will do some research. I want to be able to be able to add things to windows so they stay there rather than getting lost on a reboot. Buit I am sureyou can.

more info when I reinstall and try and repair that orginal hd for fun now.

[mattrobo]

Well I finally got around to doing a repair on the windows installation on the original drive which has been playing up.



IT DID NOT WORK. There was no difference.



Now I would like to say I have tried everything but obviously I have not or it would have been fixed.



What I can add to the mystery is that I have isolated the problem to a 24 hour window. In those 24 hours I did the following.



1. Took the screen from that machine and put it on another machine. When I put I back the system froze and the screen drivers got corrupted. In trying to fix that I halted services so lost all the restore points..DOH! But I fixed the problem within 20 mins and did not think anything more of it.

2. Windows update – but just the normal.

3. Carbonite software update.

4. Installed some software that converted flv/you tube videos to avi using ffmpeg! Now this could be it but as GBPVR uses its own ffmpeg and that this other program is a gui that only runs when asked I don't think it is the problem but certainly smells of it as it is ffmpeg and GBPVR giving me the problems but this program is being run from its own directory and did not update the registry (or did it) – BUT I think I used this 3 days before the problem started

5. Obviously added a 1000gb HD.



Originally the problem was just with the new HD but now it has spread to the original C drive which stutters. So why did it spread to another drive.



I have reinstalled the screen/video card drivers. AVI drivers. All sorts of other things but obviously not the correct thing!



The machine runs all benchmarks I usually run at normal speed and also converts video for the camera I have etc etc at normal speed it is just GBPVR which is installing slowly and the PVR playing slowly that's the problem. I have removed GBPVR 10 times and it takes 10 mins to uninstall and 10 mins to install. When I reinstalled it on the new fresh install it took 2 mins!!!!!!!!! But only GBPVR is slow…



I looked at Sandboxing etc – interesting concept I run virtual machines (linux) on this computer as well for fun – not at the same time as I have been diagnosing this problem but on the new install it all works happily.



I give up. I will try other things here and there but I am burning so many hours on it and it will be the first problem I have never found a solution or understood the cause in many many years of computer playing – that makes it dangerous because it could happen again.

[zehd]

I hate to say it but it's probably better to give up and spend the time doing something else.

When I was running my business, my competitors would 'fix' customer's computers by formatting and reinstalling widows. I prided myself at finding most bugs, and fixing them. Even in the cases where a reinstall was necessary, I would first try an Over-Install of windows, and that usually straitened out a lot of problems but still kept lots of software installed and working...

Since then, I've learned to smell a no-win scenario. And so I started from scratch more and more, and finally learned to live with the nagging feeling of not knowing what the original problem was. I'm confident that I can fix a lot of problems, but also cut my losses earlier, finish and go home sooner, so I can get on with LIFE...

I hope you can move on and find a sense of closure and peace!!!

[martint123]

I'm with Frank on this one. Life is too short.
I made an image of my machine when I first built it and then make a note of what I change afterwards. If there are significant changes and it works fine I make another image. Database is on a different drive. as are the recordings.

If (when) it goes wrong, it take no more than 10 minutes to get to a working system.

[mattrobo]

Thanks guys for the support. Thats what I was hoping people would say

I now have installed everything I want on this new hard drive and it is working - so the next project is to take a decent image of it and put it away.

martint123 - what software did you use?

[martint123]

Acronis is my current favourite image tool. Full images, incremental, differential. Can mount the image as a drive, open it with explorer etc etc.
Works well for me.

http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?t=36981

[mattrobo]

thanks martint123. I will look into it.