Hi, I have been working on getting my HTPC stable for 6 months now. Whenever I think that it is stable, something happenes which causes instability. I reformatted and reinstalled XP on my system, with all the proper drivers, and lo and behold, my system was finally stable. I played Moulin Rouge and Spy Game dvd's, which I recently bought, using Sonic Cineplayer 1.5 and they worked flawlessly. However, I rented Twister dvd a few days ago and the movie stops after 10 - 25 mins no matter where I start playing it from! I have to hard reset my PC every time this crash occurs, and when the computer starts up again, the error window says there was a drawing operation error with the Radeon driver.
I have read more posts than you can think of on this forum so I feel that I know what I'm doing, except I have troubleshooted this problem so much and have yet to find an answer. If anyone has any suggestions please offer them. Do you think it might be a faulty graphics card? Also, sometimes when I use Zoomplayer, all the text on the screen becomes extremely garbled and unreadable, and is only solved by rebooting.
I have made a checklist of everything that I have tried to give you all a better understanding of where my assistance lies:
- both IDE controllers are using DMA
- I installed the windows XP certified drivers (3300) for my SB Live! card -- this solved stuttering issues that I had in the past
- I used to run the 6118 Radeon drivers, I have now upgraded to the 6166 drivers (FYI, I have garbled text at times with both the 6118 and 6166 drivers)
- I ripped the dvd to my hard drive but I still have the same crash
- I removed my Pioneer DVD-115 DVD-ROM drive with my Pioneer DVD-116 drive from my other system, and yet I still have the same crash, therefore the problem does not lie with my DVD-ROM drive
- the Twister DVD does not crash when using WinDVD 4, but has audio synch issues
-my other DVD's work fine when using Cineplayer 1.5, but they crash when I use zoomplayer with cineplayer 1.5 video and windvd 4 audio filters
If anyone could PLEASE spare a few minutes of their time to offer some suggestions, I would be very appreciative.
FYI, my personal pc with athlon xp 2000+, 512 mb of ram, geforce4 ti4400 runs the Twister DVD perfectly using windvd, so I belive that rules out a problem with the dvd itself
Here are my HTPC specs:
ASUS P4B533VM mobo w/ Lan and audio onboard (both disabled)
p4 1.6 ghz
256 mb ddr ram
ATI Radeon 8500 LE
pioneer dvd-115 dvd drive
zoltrix tv genie
SB Live! 5.1 soundcard, passing DD/DTS from Digital Out port to my Yamaha receiver
fujitsu 40 gig hd
Panasonic PT-AE100 16x9 pj
Software & drivers:
radeon 6166 (catalyst 2.3) drivers
soundblaster live 3300 certified win xp drivers , from the win update site
win xp pro
ATI DVD 7.6
Sonic Cineplayer 1.5 full version
Zoomplayer 2.9
dscaler 3.1
windvd 4 (not sure what version, how do I check?)
Isaac
I have read more posts than you can think of on this forum so I feel that I know what I'm doing, except I have troubleshooted this problem so much and have yet to find an answer. If anyone has any suggestions please offer them. Do you think it might be a faulty graphics card? Also, sometimes when I use Zoomplayer, all the text on the screen becomes extremely garbled and unreadable, and is only solved by rebooting.
I have made a checklist of everything that I have tried to give you all a better understanding of where my assistance lies:
- both IDE controllers are using DMA
- I installed the windows XP certified drivers (3300) for my SB Live! card -- this solved stuttering issues that I had in the past
- I used to run the 6118 Radeon drivers, I have now upgraded to the 6166 drivers (FYI, I have garbled text at times with both the 6118 and 6166 drivers)
- I ripped the dvd to my hard drive but I still have the same crash
- I removed my Pioneer DVD-115 DVD-ROM drive with my Pioneer DVD-116 drive from my other system, and yet I still have the same crash, therefore the problem does not lie with my DVD-ROM drive
- the Twister DVD does not crash when using WinDVD 4, but has audio synch issues
-my other DVD's work fine when using Cineplayer 1.5, but they crash when I use zoomplayer with cineplayer 1.5 video and windvd 4 audio filters
If anyone could PLEASE spare a few minutes of their time to offer some suggestions, I would be very appreciative.
FYI, my personal pc with athlon xp 2000+, 512 mb of ram, geforce4 ti4400 runs the Twister DVD perfectly using windvd, so I belive that rules out a problem with the dvd itself
Here are my HTPC specs:
ASUS P4B533VM mobo w/ Lan and audio onboard (both disabled)
p4 1.6 ghz
256 mb ddr ram
ATI Radeon 8500 LE
pioneer dvd-115 dvd drive
zoltrix tv genie
SB Live! 5.1 soundcard, passing DD/DTS from Digital Out port to my Yamaha receiver
fujitsu 40 gig hd
Panasonic PT-AE100 16x9 pj
Software & drivers:
radeon 6166 (catalyst 2.3) drivers
soundblaster live 3300 certified win xp drivers , from the win update site
win xp pro
ATI DVD 7.6
Sonic Cineplayer 1.5 full version
Zoomplayer 2.9
dscaler 3.1
windvd 4 (not sure what version, how do I check?)
Isaac