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2011-12-27, 02:00
(This post was last modified: 2011-12-27, 02:02 by toymachine2009.)
Alright so I keep getting a Blue Screen of death on my office desktop which I often use as an HTPc as well.
what is a good way to diagnose what the problem is. For the past few days I have noticed choppiness while watching a movie or tv show for about 10 seconds or so then it will go away for a few min then come back. I am starting to think that this Blue Screen has something to do with it.
Fix Blue Screen of Death and hopefully this will fix the Choppy playback as well.
AMD phenom 6 Core 3.4ghz
HD 6560 GPU
8 gigs of Ram
With this kind of hardware there is no way it should have problems playing 720p locally not streamed.
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10:1 says it's a video driver issue. Get the latest driver from the manufacturer - not via windows update - and see if that fixes it.
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2011-12-27, 03:38
(This post was last modified: 2011-12-27, 05:26 by Kirky99.)
BSOD could very well be memory related, make sure it's seated well, and also make sure your BIOS settings match the memory.
Choppiness could also be background task related. I found on a quad core, I couldn't run XBMC and Mediaportal at the sme time. Playback (even with XBMC minimized) was very choppy on TMP. Anything else going on in the background? Your malware/av software up to date?
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Yea Its new installed windows so not much is installed as of now. except things such as dropbox or microsoft security essentials.
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Im probably going to format HD install fresh copy of windows and xbmc and everything and rule out its Software/Driver related at that point it has to be hardware related and the RAM is brand New as well as the GPU actually so I am hoping the Software is the issue and not hardware related.
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New memory? Look there first... Memory used to be simple, it would either work or not, the last 4 PC I've built, I've had to man handle the memory to get it working. Updating the BIOS to recognize new memory isn't a bad idea, that's how I got one PC working.
My Windows woes have not been the fault of Windows for as long as I can recall. At least Win7, it's usually pretty good, if the hardware is working as it should...