2013-11-15, 17:39
Hello,
I had a cheap jetway atom and ion box that played everything i threw at it. It recently died so I decided to replace it with something bigger. I have built many pc's over the years but this is my first htpc build. I went with a nmedia 6000b case, an Asus H81M-A motherboard, intel haswell I3 4130T processor, and 4 gb of ram. I have an 80gb ssd for the system drive and 2 Western digital 2tb drive for storage, as well as a 4tb NAS. When I first put it together I ran the driver install disk that came with the MB and I had a conflict with the intel hd sound driver and the realtek driver so I wasn't gettting any sound at all out of the system. I found some updated drivers on the intel site which fixed the sound issue, installed XBMC Frodo and started scanning my libraries. Everything seemed fine when I had it hooked up to a small monitor via hdmi. I hooked it up to my Samsung 55" plasma in the living room and the first thing that happened is I was getting a snowy screen and no video signal, after the machine was fully booted up I unplugged and replugged the hdmi cable and the screen came up fine. I started testing some of my files and some are playing fine and others seem to be playing at about 1 frame per second. The problem files aren't all the same type either some are .mkv, some are .avi and some are .iso. and any time I switch to my dish network box on the other hdmi and then back to my pc the snowy screen is back. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated, this is driving me nuts.
I had a cheap jetway atom and ion box that played everything i threw at it. It recently died so I decided to replace it with something bigger. I have built many pc's over the years but this is my first htpc build. I went with a nmedia 6000b case, an Asus H81M-A motherboard, intel haswell I3 4130T processor, and 4 gb of ram. I have an 80gb ssd for the system drive and 2 Western digital 2tb drive for storage, as well as a 4tb NAS. When I first put it together I ran the driver install disk that came with the MB and I had a conflict with the intel hd sound driver and the realtek driver so I wasn't gettting any sound at all out of the system. I found some updated drivers on the intel site which fixed the sound issue, installed XBMC Frodo and started scanning my libraries. Everything seemed fine when I had it hooked up to a small monitor via hdmi. I hooked it up to my Samsung 55" plasma in the living room and the first thing that happened is I was getting a snowy screen and no video signal, after the machine was fully booted up I unplugged and replugged the hdmi cable and the screen came up fine. I started testing some of my files and some are playing fine and others seem to be playing at about 1 frame per second. The problem files aren't all the same type either some are .mkv, some are .avi and some are .iso. and any time I switch to my dish network box on the other hdmi and then back to my pc the snowy screen is back. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated, this is driving me nuts.