System Freeze when Recording

[LostMan]

Has anyone seen this problem .... ?

 

I have been using DVDViewer to record TV using the built in EPG, and using the 'Send to PVR' button.

 

However at some point during the recording process my PC freezes for no apparent reason. Its not just the DVBViewer window that freezes, its the WHOLE PC !

 

When I come back to my PC after, or during recording the screen is still on, the screen is frozen, and I have no mouse or keyboard activity. Even pressing Caps-Lock on the keyboard doesn't change the Keyboard LED ... well and truley frozen.

 

Obviously no recording is taking place, and the only way to get the PC back to life is the reset or power button.

 

I have checked the system logs, but no errors are logged :0(

 

Tonight it froze again ... this time I disabled the screen saver, disabled Norton Antivirus, and disconnected from the Internet ... but it still did it :0(

 

My PC is overclocked .... so I will try reducing the frequency to see if that has anything to do with it, but its totally stable in all other applications.

 

This is getting annoying now .... any ideas out there ?

[Griga]

DVBViewer version? DVB device? Please more information!

 

http://www.DVBViewer.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=2210

[LostMan]

Apologies ....

 

My DVBViewer version is the latest (3.5 I think ..... I am not at home right now)

My TV Card is Haupauge WinTV HVR-1300

 

My PC froze again last night whilst DVBViewer was running ..... and this time it wasn't recording anything.

 

Other Info ....

 

CPU: Pentium 4 D950 (3.4GHz overclocked to 3.8GHz)

Memory: 2GB DDR2-800

Main HD: WD Raptor 150G

Video: ATI/Sapphire x1900xtx

 

It may be something to do with my PC ?

[wingzero]

Apologies ....

 

My DVBViewer version is the latest (3.5 I think ..... I am not at home right now)

My TV Card is Haupauge WinTV HVR-1300

 

My PC froze again last night whilst DVBViewer was running ..... and this time it wasn't recording anything.

 

Other Info ....

 

CPU: Pentium 4 D950 (3.4GHz overclocked to 3.8GHz)

Memory: 2GB DDR2-800

Main HD: WD Raptor 150G

Video: ATI/Sapphire x1900xtx

 

It may be something to do with my PC ?

 

Did you run Memtest86 to check the RAM ?

If not, go to http://www.memtest86.com/#download0

and download Memtest86 3.2 http://www.memtest86.com/memtest86-3.2.iso.zip

Burn the CD (or download and use the floppy version if you wish) and boot from it.

 

If Memtest86 3.2 reports even just a single memory address error during its tests then your RAM is the culprit.

 

If it reports no errors then the PSU and the video card have to be checked as possible causes. CPU overheating might be another possibility.

 

If you overclocked your system and you never checked your RAM with Memtest86 you shouldn't say that your system it's stable. It seemed to be stable maybe, yes, but otherwise I found many apparently stable non-overclocked systems that had defective RAM and weird random errors.

Edited August 12, 2006 by wingzero

[LostMan]

Thanks for the help .... I'll give that a try

 

I have run memtest in the past, but perhaps I ought to do it again.

 

Thanks

 

Tim

[LostMan]

I ran memtest on my PC, in both standard configuration, and overclocked ..

 

Normal - 3.4GHz - DDR2 running at 800MHz (Abit MB supports DDR2-800, and modules are PC6400)

Overclocked - 3.825GHz - DDR2 running at 900MHz (2 x 450MHz)

 

Both cases PASSED memtest .... I ran two passes as well

 

I used DVBViewer to record 'on the fly' and it recorded OK for 1.5 hours, with the PC running at normal speeds ....... it looked like that was the solution ... however

 

I went back to start another recording a bit later and my machine had frozen again :0(

 

So it looks like the CPU and Memory speed is not the problem :0(

 

The PC does NOT freeze when DVBViewer is NOT running .....

 

is there anything else I can try ?