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Hi!
Why does sometimes happen that after lunching XBMC the screen goes blank. I can hear the sound in the background so i can exit XBMC (on blind) and then it only helps to restart the frontrow and then it lunches normally? This happens totally randomly.
XBMC is lately svn build, but it has happened also before (in previous builds).
In my ATV i have also Crystal HD card.
Any clue?
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I used to get this too. CrystalHD card installed here as well. Black screen appeared completely randomly after a boot (with sound present too). Rebooting two or three times solved it, sometimes reinstalling the CrystalHD driver helped.
I solved it by restoring my ATV to 1.1. Then updating to current 3.something. Then reflashing the whole works. Running 28256 it was fine. I am running Sam.Nazarko's Ubuntu image now and have had no problems.
Good luck.
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Well before Crystal HD a also did not have this behaviour. I will remove the card and see if this will help. I have also reinstalled the ATV from scratch but it did not solve the problem it simply happens totally randomly.
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TNX for answer.
Well i'm using the latest launcher and have also installed latest svn build from it. But the problem is there for already some time. Apple TV is modded with ATVFlash (all plugins are up to date) so maybe this is the problem?
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Launcher 3.2.5; Apple os 3.0.2; svn 32995 XBMC
But as i said it has happened also with prvious releases. Maybe is the 3.0.2 ATV os the cause?
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Reset do default factory settings and then through menu download the latest ATV os and then apply the patchstick (ATVFlash).
I will try to find version 3.0.1 and install it manually if it will help. But i see that i'm not the only one who is having this behaviour. Will debug log help? But it is hard to catch it because it is so randomly.
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Well do you think that it can do something with disk preparation to do?
I did that:
i have used thiscommand
"dd if=smallatv.dmg of=\\?\Device\HarddiskX\Partition0 bs=1M --progress"
but have used bs=4M
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2010-12-09, 22:39
(This post was last modified: 2010-12-09, 23:12 by Microsaft.)
Hi there.
installed my crystalhd-card today (never had that issue before)
first time running xbmc with it was great. but now i just get a black screen.
i can start movies via iphone app (system seems to work).
latest apple tv os (3.0.2.).
latest atvflash installed (4.2.1).
latest launcher (3.2.5) and svn (35567).
apple tv is connected to an avr via hdmi.
Did you find a solution?
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I also had this problem before switching to ubuntu. I found that reinstalling launcher fixed it.