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<blockquote data-quote="VdR" data-source="post: 508819" data-attributes="member: 25818">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</blockquote>

[QUOTE="VdR, post: 508819, member: 25818"] 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 ... [U]is there a way to ignore the BSOD on shutdown[/U]? 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 [/QUOTE]

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