2009-09-11, 09:30 AM
Turned it on again today and got a blue screen straight away. Not sure if windows loaded or not as I arrived in the lounge and found the error.
So, I pulled everything off the shelf and set it up in the spare room-cum-workshop again ... and could not reproduce the problem. Gah!
I had a look around and could see no obvious reason for the crashes in the logs. I noticed that my new spanned volume had a share which I had not set up on it - it was a share belonging to the USB drive which previously had the new volume's drive letter. I removed this share.
The bios was attempting to boot from the attached USB hard drive, which was only serving to make the boot process take longer. I disabled that and removed all unneeded devices from the boot devices list.
I changed the skin in gvpvr from community to slick, cleaned up the desktop, uninstalled a few programs... Couldn't really see much else that needed changing and I didn't want to muck around with the sata mode setting (combination / normal). Never got as far as opening the case to refit plugs etc as it was running fine in the workshop.
So at this point I set everything up again up on the shelf and ... NO PROBLEM!
System has been up for about 90 minutes so far and all is well. Fingers crossed. All I can say (apart from PHEW!) is 'what a bloody waste of time'!
The WAF has taken a major hit these last couple of days, so hopefully there are no more issues. I'm sure many people here know what I'm talking about.
So, I pulled everything off the shelf and set it up in the spare room-cum-workshop again ... and could not reproduce the problem. Gah!
I had a look around and could see no obvious reason for the crashes in the logs. I noticed that my new spanned volume had a share which I had not set up on it - it was a share belonging to the USB drive which previously had the new volume's drive letter. I removed this share.
The bios was attempting to boot from the attached USB hard drive, which was only serving to make the boot process take longer. I disabled that and removed all unneeded devices from the boot devices list.
I changed the skin in gvpvr from community to slick, cleaned up the desktop, uninstalled a few programs... Couldn't really see much else that needed changing and I didn't want to muck around with the sata mode setting (combination / normal). Never got as far as opening the case to refit plugs etc as it was running fine in the workshop.
So at this point I set everything up again up on the shelf and ... NO PROBLEM!
System has been up for about 90 minutes so far and all is well. Fingers crossed. All I can say (apart from PHEW!) is 'what a bloody waste of time'!
The WAF has taken a major hit these last couple of days, so hopefully there are no more issues. I'm sure many people here know what I'm talking about.
[SIZE="1"]Windows 7 32 bit, NBPVR 2.0.3. Asus P5LD2, C2D E4500 2.2Ghz, 2GB ram, 100GB volume (system), sep 1TB drive (Recordings). 2 hauppauge tuners: HVR 3000 and Nova-S, both using DVB-S for NZ freeview. Graphics: PCI-e Nvidia 8600, using TV Out to S-Video on a 34" Panasonic CRT TV.[/SIZE]