Bleu Screen of Death (1 Viewer)

[VdR]

Long time no see, but now it is there all the time.

My living room MP client started to show some very annoying behavior. At first every so often, when shutting down or going to standby it would reboot. Then it became regularly, often and now every time. I disabled the 'auto reboot on failure' and now I get to see the BSOD every time it shuts down or goes into standby.

The BSOD always refers to PCI.SYS, but the error message varies.

Funny; the message says that my computer has been shut down to prevent damage, but it is the opposite, it was prevented from shutting down, if only it would shut down ... is there a way to ignore the BSOD on shutdown?

Since it slowly got worse, I suspected a h/w failure. I have never heard of slowly deteriorating s/w. I had updated (long before the error started occurring) the graphics card and memory, but going back to the old h/w did not make a difference. Of course I searched the internet and found plenty references to similar problems, but no real suggestions and certainly nothing that solved my problem.

So I installed a clean XP Pro SP3 copy on the second boot partition and ... problem gone. It is s/w after all.

Now I'm looking at the daunting task to create a new stable install of MP. Daunting because it takes weeks to get all the setting and tweaks right. I had wanted to wait until 1.1.0 was released before doing that again. I'm still on 1.0.1 and unless I update the TV server and other clients as well I will have to stick with that.

VdR

 

[tourettes]

is there a way to ignore the BSOD on shutdown?

Yes, fixing broken drivers or HW is the sollution (and the only sollution). You cannot disable BSOD as it is just a way to tell about the crash that as happenned (in that state OS cannot do anything else than show the BSOD as all hope is already lost).

If reinstall solved the issue, then something has screwed up the drivers on your system (no clue what).

 

[OnkelChris]

have had a similar problem. in my case it was a USB cordless keyboard (no-name). removing it solved my BSOD problem

 

[VdR]

On the fresh install I installed all the required drivers MS updates and it was still OK. Then I installed MP 1.0.1 (did not even run it yet) and the problem is back.

Now it is to find out what exactly broke it.

DVBfix,
DirectX9c (after a clean install and full MS update the MP installer removed the existing DirectX (whatever that was) and installed it new, why?),
ffdshow,
visual C++2008,
???

Unfortunately I have to do a fresh install all over to get rid of the problem first.


VdR

 

[winterescape]

I feel for you, we have all had to reload I am sure at some point. I found the MP backup plugin to be a big time saver. Find it here … MEDIAPORTAL - free media center - BackupSettings It will back up all your MP settings to a network share drive or usb drive. You can then reload and restore! Poof! Back up and running with options and preferences in tact.

I just had two other folders, epg and comskip to get back to where I was.

 

[VdR]

Thanks for that hint. I used it and BackupSettings is indeed a great time/irritation saver.

VdR

 

[VdR]

Found it and fixed it.

Since I suspected the new graphics card (HD4350) I installed the drivers for this card the very last. It is only after that, that MS update decides to load drivers for the HD audio function of that card. It was this MS driver that caused the problem. Simply disabling this driver (I do not use the audio function) solved the problem.

I have the same card in my desktop PC (HP w5520), where the driver is loaded and enabled without causing problems. Some h/w incompatibility with the HP z552.

VdR