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Posted by Anthony Marsh on 11/19/06 02:03
Bill's News wrote:
> paulg7083 wrote:
>> Has anyone experienced problems with conflicting codecs? Is
>> this
>> possible?
>>
>> I have had my PC (Athlon 64 3800+ with Asus MB) for about 4
>> months and
>> have loaded up various video editing/DVD authoring packages
>> (Pinnacle
>> Studio, Womble, Nero 7.xx, WinAVi etc) and the Storm Codec
>> pack.
>>
>> I have had problems as follows:
>>
>> 1) In Windows Explorer, when you right click on any video file
>> the
>> screen blanks for a couple of seconds and then comes back
>> again.
>> 2) When I change Windows accounts the screen goes blank before
>> logging
>> into the other account.
>> 3) The PC suddenly powers off - totally. This has happened
>> usually
>> when it is not being used - I have been in the room when it
>> happens,
>> there is no warning, it just powers off.
>>
>> Event log shows nothing - anyone know something better that
>> can log
>> all sorts of info about the PC.
>>
>> I have had the PC back to the store where I bought it and
>> their tests
>> could find no problems, but I did make them replace the power
>> supply.
>> The tech suggested I might have conflicting drivers (are
>> codecs
>> drivers of a sort, since you can view them in device manager).
>>
>> Any thoughts?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Paul
>
> I've recently bought a 2g AMD 64x2 3800 - 1 gig - from DELL
> (call me irresponsible;-0)
> I also use a Hauppauge USB2 WinTV2k v3.0.
>
> Here is a smattering of the problems I've had, none of which I
> now attribute to the capture card nor its software.
>
> My first ever non-Intel CPU.
>
> Day one problem:
>
> Periodically the sound stops. Most apps ignore the error and
> proceed soundlessly. Control panel, sounds & audio devices,
> sounds tab, asterisk > (play sound) reports an error (sorry,
> failed to write it down). Reboot restores sound.
>
> Subsequent problems:
>
> Over the two days following setup, I installed the apps which
> were running problem free on this PC's predecessor (a 2gp4-512,
> multi drive) and are still running on a Toshiba P35 laptop
> (3.2gp4d-512 - 80g hdd)
>
> The video capture program, WinTV2K, display panel (Hauppauge
> USB2 capture device) picture freezes, while the application
> continues otherwise unaffected to capture correctly to a file.
> Obviously not a major problem, simply disconcerting.
>
> The USB2 modem (Creative DE5671-1) not previously used, and
> operated by Call Station v3.10 (the same software run on the
> 2gp4 with internal modem) frequently fails to catch the caller
> ID.
>
> An external DVD burner (NEC 3550) needs to be plugged in,
> unplugged, and plugged in again - sometimes repeatedly - before
> recognized by the system. Power on while plugged in, or reboot
> while powered on and plugged in, are insufficient to recognize
> the unit. The extra unplug/replug is always required.
>
> Periodically the system performance drops drastically (typical
> apps here are TV capture, editing out of commercials, conversion
> from MPEG2 to MPEG4, burning as-is to DVD+RW data discs). A two
> pass conversion is typically done at 100 fps during the first
> pass and 35 fps during the second pass. When I notice the
> performance operating at half or less those frame rates, I abort
> the process. Windows task manager shows 60% +/- 10% dual CPU
> usage before the abort. After the abort, one processor drops to
> 2% or so, while the other continues to fluctuate around 60%
> though no processes are reported as consuming more than 2% and
> sys-idle is at ~98%. A reboot causes the system to hang at
> "Windows is shutting down" every time. Power off, wait, on
> again is the only cure.
>
> Two +RW discs, burned on the internal drive by Nero 6.6.0.12
> were not only unreadable, they could not be erased - as the
> drive never relinquishes control back to the software after
> these burned disks are inserted. Other discs, +RW, +R, and -R
> have burned properly - though I tend to use the NEC 3550 in fear
> of a repetition. I did not think to check whether this ghost
> CPU usage occurred during the burns, as I was unaware of the
> problem until the burn verify step hung. Afterward is when I
> found the discs inaccessible.
>
> Interestingly all discs burn faster than they verify?
>
Yes, typically burning at 18X and verifying at 4X.
> Three video discs copied from the internal drive to HDD had
> severe drop outs when played. The same discs, when read from
> the external NEC 3550 had none. These discs had been recorded
> months earlier on the replaced PC. I now only restore video
> from and record video to the NEC drive.
>
> I've recently added a USB2 hub (7:1), after which I was able to
> add my HP 840C DeskJet. While this works properly most times,
> the printer is sometimes not recognized (similar to the 3550)
> until a second power down, power up. It is seldom initiated
> from the power down state by Word - which it never failed to do
> on the 2gp4 nor the laptop.
>
> I've loaded the DELL support app, run check now, and the first
> thing it tells me is that a system check point has not been
> taken for more that 30 days. Opening the system restore
> manager, I find that a restore point exists for every day but
> one of the past 15 days. Needless to say, I find no reason to
> run, nor rely on, this DELL program.
>
> The 2gp4-512 I replaced with this DELL unit was purchased in
> 2000 and has been powered down but 4 times in the six years for
> hardware mods, and rebooted only when installing new software.
> The DELL DIMC521 has to be rebooted several times a day just to
> recover form the above issues.
>
> I've delayed writing to DELL because it's not crystal clear
> wherein the faults lie. However, since all these apps run
> without incident on other PCs, I can only conclude it is this PC
> creating the situation.
>
> Note to the OP: This is not my first DELL, though first in a
> while, and I've bought several non-AMD DELLs for others which
> have run fine. I also have a Toshiba P35 laptop, which is the
> Intel 3.2 GHz mobility version of the AMD dual core chip. Only
> this AMD system exhibits problems with the same apps running on
> Intel systems. Still, I can not pin point the source of these
> problems and am reluctant to point more than one finger in that
> direction.
>
>
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