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Originally Posted by 01-0077

Do you think I should upgrade any of my hardware to see if it helps? Or should I be going down the software/firmware route?

Also, is the HVR-2200 a hybrid dual digital/dual analogue card? If so have you had any experience with Hauppauge dual digital cards? I'm not particularly interested in having analogue tuners.

I doubt the higher speed RAM will help - I tried that back when I first started using onboard graphics, but it wasn't the cause or fix.

I also haven't seen any real world difference between 16 & 32MB cache hard drives.

The only pure dual digital Hauupauge card is the Nova T 500 - they can have their own problems. For some reason, there haven't been many pure dual digital PCIe cards. The HVR-2200 is dual hybrid - 2 x hybrid tuners. In very simple terms, you either use it as 2 x digital tuners or 2 x analogue tuners, not both. I run my 2 as 4 x digital tuners.

Justin

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Thanks for that Justin,

I will have a bit more of a play with the software/drivers and see if I can correct the stutter issue. Mind you it is pretty stable now, I may leave it for a couple of weeks and see if I can observe any trends as to why/when the stutter happens, if its just noise/interference then thats OK. If I still can't work it out I will try the HVR-2200.

Then onto the next problem BD playback, the bundled software that came with the pioneer drive (PDVD/Play Movie) would not recognise the disc, said it was an unsupported format and that I should upgrade the software. Looks like some more forum searches and reading.

Thanks for your help/patience,

John.

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Hey Justin,

If you read this any additional advice would be appreciated regarding my HTPC stutter issue.

I have now purchased and installed an HVR-2200 and intermittent stutter still present. Back to the Compro E700 now as PQ seems better and colour appeared washed out with Hauppauge, even though I know theoretically PQ should be the same. May reinstal Hauppauge as second tuner card down the track.

Have also tried temporarily directing timeshift buffer to an 8gb USB thumb drive to see if this helped, it didn't.

Have tried removing sound card at advice of Mark from Newmagic and running onboard sound, didn't help.

Have tried fixing size of page file and disabling page file, didn't help.

It seems that when stutter occurs hdd led shines brightly for a second or so and then everything is back to normal which makes me think it is a drive/controller issue. Have latest bios and driveres installed.

Have read a post from Clintebb who had the same hdd, mobo and tuner card and was experiencing a similar problem. Have you heard of any others who have had problems with the WD10EACS?

Considering additional drive (either WD10EADS, 1TB Samsung Spinpoint F1 or 1TB WD Caviar Black) with fresh vista instal on seperate partition. Clintebb seemed to suggest that directing tv to secondary drive sorted out his problem.

Running out of ideas.

Thanks,

John

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Since last post have disabled Defender and disk indexing. Have just purchased 1TB Samsung Spinpoint and have pointed recorded tv/timeshift buffer to it. Also, have created small partition on this drive for pagefile.

Stutter still there.

Think it may be time for a clean install of vista. Is taking an image the same thing as creating a system restore point? Because I think I will now create a seperate partition for OS.

Out of my two drives which one would you put OS on, 1TB WD Caviar GP(WD10EACS 5400 16mb) or the 1TB Samsung Spinpoint F1 (HD103UJ 7200 32mb)?

Do you bother doing anything special with pagefiles (different physical drive/partition/setting size)? what about disk indexing and Defender?

Also at the moment I am running AVG 8.0 might disable this as well, however the stutter was present before I installed the virus software.

Any comments appreciated,

John.

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Have you tried diabling any unnecessary services such as indexing/search & have you checked for any BIOS updates? Also, try removing a stick of RAM or taking it out of dual channel.

Justin

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Thanks for the quick reply,

Have disabled indexing on all drives/partitions.

Bios is 0604 which is the latest.

Can try removing a stick of ram on the weekend (to get this box out of the entertainment unit is a mission).

Is the dual channel setting done in the bios?

Any thoughts on my post 8:50am.

Cheers,

John.

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Originally Posted by 01-0077

Since last post have disabled Defender and disk indexing. Have just purchased 1TB Samsung Spinpoint and have pointed recorded tv/timeshift buffer to it. Also, have created small partition on this drive for pagefile.

Stutter still there.

Think it may be time for a clean install of vista. Is taking an image the same thing as creating a system restore point? Because I think I will now create a seperate partition for OS.

Out of my two drives which one would you put OS on, 1TB WD Caviar GP(WD10EACS 5400 16mb) or the 1TB Samsung Spinpoint F1 (HD103UJ 7200 32mb)?

Do you bother doing anything special with pagefiles (different physical drive/partition/setting size)? what about disk indexing and Defender?

Also at the moment I am running AVG 8.0 might disable this as well, however the stutter was present before I installed the virus software.

Any comments appreciated,

John.

I run a 500GB(16MB) Samsung as OS & a 750GB(32MB) as the TV drive. Nothing special with the pagefile, but I disable indexing & defender & have no AV on it.

Sorry, I don't have time to read back through the thread - are you sure your reception is fine? Maybe it's too high & you might need to attenuate it? Just thinking out loud.

Justin

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Originally Posted by 01-0077

Thanks for the quick reply,

Have disabled indexing on all drives/partitions.

Bios is 0604 which is the latest.

Can try removing a stick of ram on the weekend (to get this box out of the entertainment unit is a mission).

Is the dual channel setting done in the bios?

Any thoughts on my post 8:50am.

Cheers,

John.

Dual channel is usually auto selected by which slots the RAM is in. Check the manual, but putting both sticks in the slots for the same channel will do it.

Also, have you run deccheck & vmcd to check your codec situation? Maybe one has taken over (from Compro?)?

Justin

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Thanks Justin I appreciate your time,

If I do a clean vista install into a seperate OS partition, how do I take an image? is this the same thing as a restore point?

Do you have your OS in a seperate partition so you can use the balance of your 500Gb drive for media?

I have run vmcd and the only codec's installed are the vista ones. I only installed the compro driver not the software.

Reception could be an issue or even impulse noise. I had a 3 way splitter which I removed but it made no difference.

The attenuation could be something worth looking at. My understanding is that tuner cards dont like either too weak or stong a signal.

With regard to impulse noise I have tried staying up late and turning off all electrical devices (fridge, dishwasher etc) but stutter still happens.


Thanks again,

John.

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I've got one thought about stuttering which I suspect is not relevant to you, but you never know... I have my OS and Recorded TV all on the one Samsung 250GB HDD (ignore that part of my signature which I must update ), two partitions.

Normally I now have virtually zero stuttering. But I noticed during the Olympics when I was recording more or less 24/7, and fast-forwarding regularly through hours of recorded tv, that I would get serious stuttering on footage that was recording at the time I was FFing through previously recorded material.