Occasional blank screen during play back and live tv

[Spidermonkey]

I have a strange niggle, when watching a recording, video or live TV every so often the TV screen goes blank for a second or so then comes back. Its like the when the monitor goes off after inactivity, the TV displays seraching for signal for a second then finds a signal and comes back on. It happens every 10 - 20 mins but can be more random than that.

The HTPC is currently connected to a Samsung HDTV via HDMI.

Initially I thought it was a problem with the system setup, ie drivers, settings etc. but after some investigation changing cables, using a different TV and using VGA output instead of HDMI I haven't been able to cured it. Finally I played a recording with WMP in fullscreen mode for an hour and the problem didn't occur.

Can anyone shed so light on this?

It's not a massive problem but it detracts from the otherwise good user experience.

NPVR 1.5.33 is installed on Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit.

Just on a side note I think NPVR is excellent, GBPVR was good (my parents still use it) but NPVR IMO takes good leap forward, initially I thought it looked quite restrictive campared to GBPVR but I realised after using it for while that the features I use were built into the main program and just worked from the start. Basically I think Sub and the other developers have produced an excellent product with a good feature set and capability for a modern PVR/HTPC system. Well done and thanks

Nige

[Reddwarf]

Could it be the Windows screensaver that tries to kick in? Have you looked at the screensaver settings?

[sub]

Just on a side note I think NPVR is excellent, GBPVR was good (my parents still use it) but NPVR IMO takes good leap forward, initially I thought it looked quite restrictive campared to GBPVR but I realised after using it for while that the features I use were built into the main program and just worked from the start. Basically I think Sub and the other developers have produced an excellent product with a good feature set and capability for a modern PVR/HTPC system. Well done and thanks

Cheers,

[Spidermonkey]

It's usually something simple! The screen saver was set to none so I left that but I noticed that the power plan was set to turn the display off after 1 minite so I changed that to 5 and the problem has gone away.

Thanks for the prompt Reddwarf

[Reddwarf]

It's usually something simple! The screen saver was set to none so I left that but I noticed that the power plan was set to turn the display off after 1 minite so I changed that to 5 and the problem has gone away.

Thanks for the prompt Reddwarf

Good you got it sorted