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I recently upgraded my HTPC with a GT430 card. I disabled the onboard GPU, then installed the latest drivers from the Nvidia website. After a reboot, XBMC came up fine as usual and I enabled DVXA support from the settings menu. Since then, while watching movies or tv shows the video will freeze for a brief moment (less than a second) every 10 to 30 minutes. All content is from my server, and it's occurred on .mov trailers, SD and HD content.
Where do I need to look to start troubleshooting?
Specs:
Win7 64 bit
2gb RAM
C2D 2.3ghz
EVGA GT430
XBMC 10.0
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Bumping this because things got way, way worse. Movies and TV shows started taking a long time to begin playing, and would pause 10 seconds in to buffer. Last night they stopped playing at all, and I would get a message to check the log file as XBMC wasn't able to play the show. I switched skins and rebooted XBMC to see if that was the issue, and it wasn't. I rebooted the HTPC, and the display never came back on (for some reason the GT430 I just installed doesn't show any of the boot up process, it comes on at the Windows login).
I'll be tearing it all apart this morning, as well as pasting the contents of the log. I'm hoping that one of y'all out there have seen this issue before and can point me in the right direction. Using the 360/PS3 sucks in comparison to XBMC.
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In the continuing adventures of EC and his video problems....
I removed the GT430 card, then performed a clean install of the Nvidia drivers. No problems viewing media! Files opened just fine. On a whim, I decided to install the GT430 again, doing yet another clean install of the Nvidia drivers. Everything works! So I have no freakin' clue. If it occurs again after I restore my XBMC setup, I suppose I'll try reinstalling the drivers again.
Hopefully this thread will help someone else if they run across the same (non) issue.
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I've got a GT430 as well and don't have the issues you described (though I do have horrible distortion when I FF or REW). Hopefully your hitches don't return.
The main reason why I wanted to reply is because I wanted to pass along that my card (a Zotac ONE fanless card) does show me POST information when booting the PC. Since yours isn't showing it, it may be that your motherboard is still outputting to the onboard card, even when it's disabled. I've seen settings for something like "Primary Video" in some BIOS setups. It shouldn't make a difference with the hitches you were seeing, but at least maybe you might be able to see the POST information.
Ray