Crash When Recording

[SolarCurve]

Howdy Guys,
Long time since I have posted but things have been working pretty smooth. Well until I got all ambitious and bought a capture card. I had been using the MVP And GBPVR to just watch movies, and listen to music, etc. I hadn't really jacked with the TV and recording stuff since I already had a PVR that came with my Dish Network.

I bought a Hauppauge PVR-150, got it all configured, and setup recording, etc. I can watch Live TV and record what I am watching so far without a problem. I actually recorded 4 hours straight on 1 program with no problem while in live TV mode.

The problem comes in with scheduled recordings. I am trying to record the Sesame Street every morning for my daughter to watch that night since she misses it since we are driving to school. Recording will kick off and I can get from 2 minutes to 45 minutes before it locks up the whole system. I get home from work and I have to hit the reset button since the mouse, keyboard, and it isn't responding at all via network.

I knew there was a problem recording to the VIA IDE chipset that occurs with lots of similar applications so I bought a Promise IDE expansion card and moved my recording drive to it. I have also played the buffer, and Pagefile for the system on that IDE channel as well. I have googled, and searched here and not been able to find a solution. I have found you guys extremely knowledgeable and helpful, and I am hoping you can come through for me again.

I have pasted in what I can find in the logs around that time frame. Please let me know if I am missing something else from another log. Thanks so much for your time and help, have a great day and take care. p.s. I love my GBPVR

---gbpvrrecordingservice.exe-1.log-----
7/12/2005 3:03:08 AM.081 INFO [110] Auto-Updating EPG
7/12/2005 3:03:12 AM.027 INFO [110] Requesting listings for period: 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z - 2005-07-20T00:00:00Z
7/12/2005 6:59:00 AM.141 INFO [23] Found new programme requiring recording: 123 Sesame Street
7/12/2005 6:59:13 AM.160 ERROR [23] Error loading ReoccuringRecordingExtras: The data value could not be converted for reasons other than sign mismatch or data overflow. For example, the data was corrupted in the data store but the row was still retrievable.


---gbpvrrecordingservice.exe-native.log---
06:59:03.907 INFO Log started
06:59:03.907 VERBOSE ConexantRecorder::StartRecording(1, 1, 3, 0)
06:59:03.997 VERBOSE Capture Device is based on BlackBird architecture
06:59:03.997 VERBOSE Capture Device is using Conexant (derived) drivers
06:59:03.997 VERBOSE Loading filter names
06:59:03.997 VERBOSE Found names:
06:59:04.027 VERBOSE Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II Crossbar
06:59:04.027 VERBOSE Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II Capture
06:59:04.027 VERBOSE Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II TvTuner
06:59:04.027 VERBOSE Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II TvAudio
06:59:04.307 VERBOSE ConnectPins: 'Analog Audio' to 'TVAudio In'
06:59:05.609 VERBOSE ConnectPins: 'Audio Decoder Out' to 'Analog Audio In'
06:59:05.619 VERBOSE Looking for encoder filter
06:59:05.809 VERBOSE - Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II Encoder
06:59:06.120 VERBOSE ConnectPins: '656' to '656'
06:59:11.778 VERBOSE ConnectPins failed!
06:59:12.249 VERBOSE put_Mode(AMTUNER_MODE_TV)
06:59:12.249 VERBOSE put_CountryCode(1)
06:59:12.249 VERBOSE put_TuningSpace(1)
06:59:12.249 VERBOSE put_InputType(0, 0)
06:59:12.249 VERBOSE put_ConnectInput(0)
06:59:12.249 VERBOSE put_Channel(3, AMTUNER_SUBCHAN_DEFAULT, AMTUNER_SUBCHAN_DEFAULT)
06:59:12.559 VERBOSE get_VideoFrequency() returns 61187500
06:59:12.559 VERBOSE get_CountryCode() returns 1
06:59:12.569 VERBOSE About to query available formats
06:59:12.569 VERBOSE ConexantRecorder::SetConfigurationECP()
06:59:12.609 INFO Firmware Version 2.5.32



Audio Firmware Version <<can't read now>>



Model 26032 Rev C199

Serial No: 7933913

Tuner: 99

Decoder: 28

AudioIC: 35

IR



Input Map: C= 0x000f, S= 0x0003


06:59:12.769 VERBOSE FindFilterByName failed to locate filter: GB-PVR WST SRT Analog
06:59:12.919 VERBOSE getSetting(ListGraphFilters)
06:59:13.010 VERBOSE Graph contains the following filters:
06:59:13.010 VERBOSE - GB-PVR Writer
06:59:13.010 VERBOSE - Encoder
06:59:13.010 VERBOSE - Capture
06:59:13.010 VERBOSE - Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II Crossbar
06:59:13.010 VERBOSE - TV Audio
06:59:13.010 VERBOSE - TV Tuner
06:59:13.010 VERBOSE getSetting(SaveGraphFiles)
06:59:13.010 VERBOSE ConexantRecorder::StartRecording() done


---Event Viewer---
The previous system shutdown at 7:01:05 AM on 7/12/2005 was unexpected.
In Words:
0000: 000707d5 000c0002 00010007 035e0005
0010: 000707d5 000c0002 0001000c 035e0005

---Hardware Information---
OS Name Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003, Enterprise Edition
Version 5.2.3790 Service Pack 1 Build 3790
Other OS Description Not Available
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name TOES
System Manufacturer VIA Technologies, Inc.
System Model VT8366-8233
System Type X86-based PC
Processor x86 Family 6 Model 6 Stepping 2 AuthenticAMD ~1599 Mhz
BIOS Version/Date Award Software International, Inc. 6.00 PG, 8/26/2003

[sub]

Everything looks ok in the GB-PVR logs. You shutdown seemed to happen unexpectidly about two minutes after the recording started.

Since it caused a your machine to restart (which is a pretty nasty reaction), I can only guess it was driver related. Possibly capture device drivers. Possibly the IDE drivers.

Does the event log give you any more to go on?

[SolarCurve]

Here is the only possible thing I have dug up.

I have followed tipstir and other googling's advice and instructions on how to change the pagefile.sys to the other drive, yet no matter what I do..... It still shows up on c:.

wtf^mate?

The driver disabled the write cache on device \Device\Harddisk6\DR6.
In Words:
0000: 0004000f 00620001 00000000 80040022
0010: 00000001 00000000 00000000 00000000
0020: 00000000 00000000 00000000

I found some newer drivers for my IDE channels. So I have installed them and I plan on trying those out in soon. Any idea's on the page file thing?

[sub]

I've never bothered to fiddle with page file settings. I know some people swear by it, but the defaults have always worked well for me.