Switch from PCH C-200 to any HTPC, advice needed

well before buying new ram you can run a MemTEST on them.
this will tell you if your ram is good or not, plain and simple.

download memtest -->http://www.memtest.org/download/4.20/memtest86+-4.20.usb.installer.zip
install to an empty USB FLash Drive
then insert in your ZBOX
tweak your boot order in the BIOS so that it boots from USB
MemTest appears
let it run overnight while you sleep
you want at least to let it do 7 passes..
then in morning, check if MemTest reports any errors...

thanks guys, gonna test it as soon as I get home from London, fish and chips are waiting haha

ok back and I tried now to run memtest.... the problem is that as soon as I press a button on the keyboard, everything freezes!!

If I press DEL at the start, the Zotac freezes at the Zotac screen
If I press a button during windows start, the loading screen freezes and I have to restart
Now windows wants to start the repair stuff or whatever where you can choose to start windows normally or via repair help. There's a countdown 30 sec, 29 sec, etc. as soon as I press a button on the keyboard during this countdown (because I need to press a button to choose "start windows normally", the countdown stops and u might guess it..... freeze!

This is not the first time I'm experiencing this, usually after endless restarts I can finally start windows again.

But what is wrong here omg. With this stupid behavior of my Zotac, I'm not even able to enter bios to change the boot mode for memtest.

well, your ZBOX might have to be RMA at this point,

(2012-04-12 04:22)eskro Wrote:  well, your ZBOX might have to be RMA at this point,

yeah I guess that's the only option left, there has to be something wrong with this thing

good luck

(2012-04-12 11:20)eskro Wrote:  good luck

thanks eskro

I got the confirmation from the shop that I can send in the device, hopefully I get a replacement and than I will so from there.
Anyways, I have one more log from yesterday where the movie froze 4-5 times. Dunno probably you can read something out of it but anyway I will send the device for repair.
XBMC Freeze Log

If you have time to take a look at it, I appreciate it.

just send the device

(2012-04-16 20:47)eskro Wrote:  just send the device

Hi all.

Do not know if u all still have the same problem: Got MSGQ_ABORT or MSGO_IS_ERROR return true

I had the problem for about 6 months or so, its f****** annoying.

My setup was .
PC: Win7
2 Gb external usb Hdd.
Router from ZyXel 100 Mbit local lan.
Xbox running latest Xbmc4xbox stable.

The only thing i did was use a switch from D-link between the router and PC/Xbox.

Do not know why this works but i do not have the problem anymore.

Hope this helps.